TD accused of abandoning ambulance group

Ambulance campaigners who began a four-day protest march from West Cork yesterday have accused a Government TD of abandoning them in their hour of need.

The West Cork SOS group, which is fighting proposed changes to the region’s ambulance service, hit back at Cork South West Fine Gael TD Jim Daly after he accused “vested interests” within the campaign of “reckless and opportunistic scaremongering”.

Campaign spokesman Frank Fahy said: “I know of nobody within the West Cork SOS group who has an interest other than to protect the lives and well-being of the people of West Cork — which is more than Mr Daly has ever done or had the political will to do.