Fall in number of emergency calls

The company that handles 999/112 emergency calls saw a significant drop in the number of calls made to the service in 2014.

The Emergency Call Answering Service, operated by BT Ireland, redirects emergency calls from its public safety answering points in Donegal, Meath, and Dublin to the four main emergency services.

The service handled almost 2.2m calls in 2014, or an average of more than 6,000 every day, a drop of 500,000 on the previous year.