Medical staff and supplies fly out from Dublin

DOCTORS, nurses and aid workers left Dublin airport yesterday on an Aer Lingus plane loaded with 27 tonnes of supplies and medicine and bound for earthquake-stricken Haiti.

The GOAL-led relief mission will see the aid paid for by Irish citizens make a 17-hour road trip today after it lands in the Dominican Republic and travels across the border into Haiti in seven trucks.

GOAL doctor Ross Ardill, 42, explained the priority about getting medical supplies to the desperate survivors in the country’s capital Port-au-Prince and beyond.