New out of hours service for children ‘shambolic’

A GARDA association has described as “shambolic” the country’s new out of hours emergency service for children at risk.

The Association of Garda Sergeants and Inspectors (AGSI) is highlighting cases where, they claim, both the HSE and a private company which runs the out of hours service, Five Rivers Ireland (FRI), failed to intervene.

The AGSI claim: