'A perfect storm': Emergency healthcare services under pressure 

GP says services in Cork have already hit crisis point

Emergency Department nurse Moira Wynne: Things are crazy now, and then we're heading into winter, which is always another brand of crazy, and I don't know how emergency departments nationally are going to cope with tha

On the night of August 7, Michael Collins saw what looked like “something out of a war zone”.

As he waited to pass on the narrow road at about 11.15pm, he saw a fire crew and gardaí tending to three people lying on the ground around the mangled wreck of a car just outside Schull, West Cork.