Outrage over Kenny’s services remarks

Taoiseach Enda Kenny outraged people in East Cork when he insisted in the Dáil yesterday that ambulance services in the area have been “enhanced and improved” — despite none being available for a child who fell from an upstairs window.

One mother of two, Sabrina Lyons, who organised a protest in Midleton earlier this week, said “services were far from enhanced and that people who shouldn’t be dying were dying as a result”. She said locals would not give up their demands for an ambulance to be reinstated in Midleton, and said another demonstration was planned for Saturday.

“We need everyone’s support to make them realise that this new system isn’t working.”