Cork doctor completes Ireland’s first pre-hospital blood transfusion to critically ill patient

The protocol that allowed this roadside transfusion was drawn up by Dr Eoin Fogarty, based on the successful protocol used in Sydney.

Most of the headlines relating to the Dunkettle interchange are about its delayed upgrade, but there has been more positive activity in the vicinity recently.

As motorists wove their way around that maze of lanes, they may have noted an ambulance parked up on the northside approach to the Jack Lynch tunnel.