Grieving parents demand ‘an ambulance in every town’

The heart-broken family of a teenager who died close to his home have pleaded with Leo Varadkar, the new Minister for Health, to ensure there is an ambulance available in every town in Ireland.

Davey and Marguerite Byrne say their son Conor, who would have celebrated his 19th birthday last Saturday should not have had to wait 27 minutes for an ambulance.

“It is a basic human right that when you need help, you get help,” said Ms Byrne at their home in in Marian Park, Dundalk, yesterday. “Wherever they are going to make the cuts, it should not be there, it should not be in the health service. The least we should have got was an ambulance. It could have saved Conor’s life.”