Protest over services closure

THOUSANDS of demonstrators demanding a halt to the closure of key services at Roscommon Hospital descended on Leinster House yesterday.

The protesters rallied outside the Oireachtas as opposition parties put pressure on the Government over medical services in the Mid-West.

Earlier, Taoiseach Enda Kenny denied accusations by Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin that he had deliberately misled people over the hospital’s future during the election campaign.