Wheelchair user angry over access

AN ill wheelchair user who spent the last three weeks in hospital but who was discharged yesterday in time to vote had to sit outside the polling station for over an hour because he couldn’t gain access to the building.

Peter O’Shea had been an in-patient at Kerry General Hospital where he had major abdominal surgery.

However, his delight at being discharged quickly turned to anger when he discovered that there was no wheelchair access available at Lixnaw Convent Primary School where he was registered to vote in the Kerry North-Limerick West constituency.