Cork county councillor had to wait three hours for ambulance

HSE officials will be asked to explain why a county councillor had to wait three hours for an ambulance and why its crew then spent a further two and a half hours outside a Cork hospital before they were given back the trolley on which she had been lying.

Independent councillor Mary Linehan-Foley slipped in a cafe in her home town of Youghal at 12pm on December 21.

An ambulance was called when a first responder who arrived at the scene thought she might have fractured her hip.