Group simulates crash to highlight ambulance cuts

SAVE Youghal Ambulance Group simulated a fatal car accident and a resuscitation scene in protest against the HSE’s proposed changes to the east Cork ambulance service.

Graphic banners, some portraying the HSE as the Grim Reaper, were also used to depict fears over proposed changes.

Local protester Bernard Leamy described how Youghal ambulance had arrived within 15 minutes of being called at 2.45am a weekend previous, after his son Shane, 21, suffered acute pain.