Minister: I had no input in air ambulance decision

Mental Health Minister Kathleen Lynch had no input in the decision to fly her by air ambulance from Donegal to Cork in late July after she suffered a serious medical mishap.

The senior Labour figure was rushed from one end of the country to the other while on an official visit to Letterkenny General Hospital due to a serious septicaemia-related condition.

Ms Lynch, who first contracted the blood-poisoning illness last year, was originally treated at Cork University Hospital’s intensive care unit.