Threat to ambulance service unites ‘ordinary folk’

With HSE plans to change ambulance cover, West Cork knew it had to act, writes Eddie Cassidy

Farmer Liam Slattery celebrated his 34th birthday yesterday on a protest walk over a risk to ambulance services in West Cork.

He was joined by Anne O’Donoghue-Deasy, a mother from a fishing village whose son, husband, and father-in-law, all within the space of a year, had required ambulance assistance.