Cork woman had no phone coverage to call an ambulance for her toddler

A Co Cork mother has expressed anger at Eircom after she was unable to make an emergency call when her toddler had a seizure.

There is no mobile phone service in the area where she lives and the young mother also has no access to a landline. Lucy Stephens said she and her partner have repeatedly asked the telecommunications company for a landline at her home in East Cork, due to the lack of mobile phone reception.

Their concerns came to a head when she discovered her young son convulsing on Friday. The mother of three boys found two-year-old Seán lying on the living room floor.