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THE NATIONAL AMBULANCE Service (NAS) has confirmed that an ambulance transferring a patient from Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda to St James’s Hospital Dublin broke down on the way last Saturday.
It is understood that the ambulance was carrying a patient who was on life support. The NAS said the crew reported that the ambulance had lost power on the M1 motorway at 4.48pm on Saturday.
In a statement, it explained that “ambulance control immediately dispatched an emergency ambulance to assist”.
This second ambulance arrived at 5.01pm and left the scene within ten minutes for St James’ Hospital.
The NAS said “it is not aware of any complaints about this incident from either hospital”.
The NAS is not in a position to comment on the patient’s condition.The ambulance involved is currently out of service but is expected to resume service shortly.
This follows another break down ten days earlier when an ambulance crew and their patient were forced to flee the vehicle after it caught fire. No one was injured in the incident but the HSE said there would be an investigation.
A paramedic working in the region said they were “very concerned” about the situation. They said paramedics are “being forced to drive very old ambulances with huge mileage on them.”
“Something bad is going to happen very soon”, they added.
In its statement about the incident, the NAS said it has a “robust service and maintenance programme in place” and considers the safety of its patients, crew and the public at all times.
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In the words of nelson…HA HA
@Chutes Idiot: ask what cian likes ha ha
@Chutes Idiot: Why don’t these people join Hamas or the Ukrainian Army if they really want to progress their political agenda. Playing childish pranks won’t change anything, but at least it’s safe for them!
@Chutes Idiot: Projecting on to Brendan doesn’t really help you, you know that right?
@Clare Power: Not funny in any way. I’m not a fan of Trump, but this type of behaviour is unacceptable, regardless of who owns it or motivation. Same applies to the people who destroyed the pitch in tuam stadium. It’s a felony.
@Diarmuid Concannon: so…I care not a jot for your opinion
@Clare Power: That’s where we differ because I do care about yours and I do like your honesty.
@Diarmuid Concannon: those poor holes in the ground, you care about the planet?
@Diarmuid Concannon: read between the lines…I don’t approve of breaking the law but it’s a little tiny dig at Trump…
@Clare Power: Boom Boom… see what you did there…(although, you probably didn’t)
@Willie Murphy: ah Willie.. I just did…very good…not intended
@Housing Hunger Games: To qoute Clare, I don’t think you give a jot about my opinion, but just in case you do..I care about the thoughts or motivation of these people, not necessarily the damage because these people will do it again and again for frivolous reasons, and then you have people on here ,just as bad as the perpetrators, cheerleading.
@Diarmuid Concannon: you ask about the motivations of people putting a hole in the mud but not the motivations of people putting a hole in people?
@Clare Power: How very woke. How very far-left. Toys out the pram when the simpletons don’t get their way. Muppets.
@Clare Power: Woke tr@mp.
@Kieran Conroy: oh dear…are you all mad because I replied to another of your comments and made a show of you….silly baby
@Clare Power: Exactly WTF are you chatting bollox about libtard?
@Chutes Idiot: no joy just sorrow that he missed!!
@Kevin Byrne: well that seems to be a common thread for you, threatening children…
Jonny 40 accounts be upset, rian / jim / chutes joe willis / mary / cian cormac
@Housing Hunger Games: You can almost telepathically feel them shaking in anger.
@Housing Hunger Games: These protestors are a disgrace. Ashocking disrespect for the rule of law. Who do they think they are? Enoch Burke?
Funding Genocide upsets right thinking human beings
@Kevin O Brien: there is no Genocide, there is a jihadi terrorist attack on the sovereign stste of Israel.
@Kevin O Brien: South Africa was trying to change the definition of genocide to attack Israel in the international criminal courts. The only people wanting to commit genocide are Hamas against the Jewish population of Israel.
@frank dowling: Another article today with another organisation labelling Israeli action as genocide. Do you not accept the UN’s account of these incidents? Seems like you don’t believe in the rule of law when certain countries are involved
@Sam Walsh: 200 Israelis dead, 46,000 Palestinians dead. But yea, Israel are the good guys. By the way, in WW2 there was a crowd in Germany who had a similar, but less murderous tactic. When 1 of there own was killed, they’d kill 50. Israel copied the plan, but have adjusted the numbers of revenge murders upwards.
Stormy Daniels Double Ds done the damage
@DC: i blame that drag queen Erin Go Bra-less.
If these protestors love Gaza and Palestine so much then better for us all if they just eff off and go live there.
@Gerry Lamont: they can’t be gay or unmarried living in sin or more nonsense from a book of fairytales
@Gerry Lamont: if you love those holes in the ground being attacked then go live in them
@Gerry Lamont: why should they? They pay taxes for your dole.
Great stuff, and shame on all the people who work for that fascist at his golf club.
@Jacintha Dumbrell: at least they work
@Jacintha Dumbrell: they have a job that feed their family d.ass
Big shout out to the security staff, they were fairly on the ball there.
Nobody saw that coming, especially after one of Trump’s other golf courses was vandalized only days before over in Scotland. Who would have guessed it could have happened here?
@Chaotic State: You know how big golf courses are? You’d do well to keep an eye on the whole thing.
@Chaotic State: good cian ;)
Rabbits maybe?
@bruce banner: quite possible, all them bunnys around here carry Palestinian flags around with em’
@bruce banner: Playboy bunnies. It’s Trump.
@bruce banner: Actually it was the snails that live there and are protected. They stopped the big extension plans he had.
I would happily vandalise that deranged tangerine sex offenders golf course.
@Daniel Skelton: is that you Melania?
@Daniel Skelton: alleged
Could not have happened to a more deserving billionaire POTUS
Crybaby lefties are still sore over losing the election
@common sense: goddamn lefties just as bad as righties, least they not far righties
@common sense: Not sore enough to break into the capitol and shit all over the place like you guys did.
Anyone seen Melania?
What tools. Don’t realise the amount of local employment the resort gives
@Dr Albert S Meinheimer: Yes, I guess tools were needed to dig the holes, and they also provided employment for the local people, as someone had to fill them in again, so spare your faux outrage
@Dr Albert S Meinheimer: Buggar all local employment in the grand scheme of things. Also it gave the same employment before he bought it and it’ll give same after he bankrupts it and someone else opens it.
@Tony: the complex couldn’t be given away at the time. He bought it and employed over 110 locals
@Larissa Caroline Nikolaus: as a woman you must understand sarcasm
Leftist tolerance in action!
@Paul: those tolerant lefties putting a hole in the ground while the righties put a hole in people
@Housing Hunger Games: trumps policies have put a big hole in people’s pockets that’s for sure
I see those pro-Hamas thugs are at their nonsense again. These people are disgraceful cowards and it’s moments like this that I support bringing in caning as a form of punishment like they have in Singapore for those engaged in vandalism and public destruction. These people hate the idea of Trump’s excellent plan for Gaza because Hamas would be kicked out and wouldn’t be able to launch terrorist attacks against Israel and fire rockets at their citizens. These people are antisemitic to the core. It’s this government’s virulent anti-Israel stance that has emboldened these dirtbags. It’s only a matter of time before synagogues and Jewish businesses are vandalised as well. They already openly chant antisemitic slogans and wave Hamas/Hezbollah flags in the streets. Strong deterrence is needed.
@William Jennings: Nobody is pro Hamas you tool. But sure you know that but your job is to write your muck
@William Jennings: OK William, let’s say trump’s “excellent plan” for producing a middle eastern riviera has materialised. Are you going to holiday there now…? On the soil of a former people’s bloodstained land that nethy & the idf cleared way by murdering 50000 innocent lives(20000 children) masquerading as revenge for oct 7th attacks? Will you still go William?
@Tony: Get your head out of the sand, you absolutely dope. Of course these people are pro-Hamas. They wave Hamas flags and chant antisemitic slogans. They call for the destruction of Israel and vandalise the private property of Donald Trump after he called for Hamas to be removed permanently from Gaza so they can no longer commit massacres against Jewish people like they did on October 7th when they tortured and murdered 1,200 innocent people. What other proof do you need? Are you a Hamas-loving Islamist too and is that why you can’t see the truth if it punched you square between the eyes?
@William Jennings: Some eejits dug up greens on a golf course. So they must be anti-Semitic. That’s some leap.
@j m m: If Gaza is successfully modernised by America and terrorism is fully rooted out, I will have no problem going there and I’ll happily sip my margarita by the beach. 50,000 “innocent” people have not died. 18,000 of them were Hamas militants, 6,200 of them were patients with stage 4 terminal cancer that Hamas falsely added to the death toll and 10,400 of them have no ID or proof that they were even real people. 20,000 children have not been killed, even Hamas doesn’t claim that number. Back in May, Hamas were forced to change the number of women and children killed from 24,000 to 12,800. Therefore, the number of children killed is likely around 10,500. Every single one of those deaths is on Hamas, who deliberately build their missile launching sites beside schools and hospitals.
@Brian O’ Leary: They planted Hamas flags on the golf course and wrote anti-Israel slogans just like the vandals did up in Scotland. I would absolutely consider their behaviour, as part of a long pattern, to be antisemitic. The fact that they did this because they opposed Trump’s plan to remove Hamas members from Gaza so that they could no longer commit terrorist attacks against Israel is very telling.
@William Jennings: Yep, that’s the reply I expected. Nice statistics too, are they idf produced stats? William, like you, nobody on here supports hamas. We’re all pro human(I hope). Nobody here holidays in graveyards either.
@j m m: My statistics are rooted in factual information. The Henry Jackson Society, the Wall Street Journal and all the UK and US intelligence agencies have done comprehensive analyses which confirm this. Even if I decided to get my statistics directly from the IDF, so what? Would you trust the Allies or the Nazis more when it came to an accurate picture of the death toll during World War II? You seemingly get your statistics from the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry based on your highly inflated numbers and the fact that you claimed that Hamas militants counted as “innocent” civilians. Do you classify ISIS and Al-Qaeda militants in the same manner when they are killed? I’m pro-human as well, which is why I support eradicating terrorism in Gaza and removing Hamas from there permanently.
@William Jennings: I based my comment on what I read in the article: “It is not yet known if those involved in the vandalisation are linked to any protest groups.”
@Brian O’ Leary: This article obviously hasn’t been updated yet. The Irish Independent said that these people committed the vandalism for the exact same reason as the vandals did up in Scotland.
@j m m: whilst we live in Ireland with the blood of millions of our innocents
@William Jennings: His plan is ethic cleansing, similar to the plantation of Ireland. It’s horrendous.
@William Jennings: He called for the removal of all people. Any Palestinian.
@William Jennings: There is a big difference between being anti Israeli government and anti semetic. Which you choose to ignore.
Emotional lot those lefty’s, always causing murder when they’re not happy with
things.
@Eric Gaffney: holes in the ground is murder? Wait until you hear about Palestinians, Israelis, Ukrainians, Russians but you probably only get emotional over the ground being attacked
@Housing Hunger Games: There you go getting overwrought about a comment.
@Eric Gaffney: far righties crying over a few holes in the ground lol bloody snowflakes and karens
@Eric Gaffney: Not as bad as the time you guys smashed your way into the Capitol building and shit all over the place.
@Dan Ryan: the only holes those incels will ever get.
@Dolly Mounted – Norside Drag Queen: you’ll literally only get holes.
No not a golf course even if it is trumps.
The left are childish, I’ve never heard of anyone who supports the other side burning and damaging property all over the country and now around the world. A bunch of people with teenage brains in adult bodies.
@brendan C5: The “other side” is turning an entire enclave into rubble as we speak so that kind of upends your argument
@brendan C5: CAPITAL HILL
@brendan C5: And along comes agent C5, who ironically supports putin doing a lot more than just “burning and damaging property”.
@Clare Power: a handful of people the majority were peaceful. At least they didn’t burn cities and private businesses and caused billions in damage the last time he was in power.
@Darth O’Leary: no it’s not, wake up.
@Eugene Burns: and what did Ukraine do for 8 years to east Ukraine before Russia stepped in. Learn your history.
@brendan C5: not all history comes from Sputnik and Tass you know?…. or maybe you don’t.
Vandalism is Vandalism
Childish carry on.
Hm. I have a funny idea this incident would be described differently had it been against property of an Irish politician.
@Athena: more people would have laughed about it and the usual crew would say they deserved it as they are evil and corrupt
I find the angst funny
Had to go to the comments section, then the BBC and, God help us, Instagram to discover that there was a Palestine / human rights / protest angle to the story… Journal.ie appears to be presenting it as an apolitical act of destruction.
Or maybe they hadn’t the full details at time of writing. If so, article could do with an update. https://www.instagram.com/share/reel/BAXjrRjsm5
Why is Mic
Why is Micheàl Martin’s name in the sub heading written without leading capital letter?
@Luan Willis: why have you spelt his name with the French accent grave instead of the fada?
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