Our reporter spends 24 hours in A & E

‘Irish Examiner’ Mid-West correspondent Jimmy Woulfe spent 24 hours in a hospital emergency department recently. He describes his experience of our health service

A priest stood less than 4ft away giving comfort to a distraught family whose young son was in a critical condition

THE emergency department at University Hospital Limerick (formerly the Mid-Western Regional) has become a byword for the raw, shameful failure of our overwhelmed health service.