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THE FAMILY OF a young man who bled to death waiting almost 40 minutes for an ambulance to arrive have blamed health cuts for his death.
25-year-old Dualtagh Donnelly died after cutting his arm on the glass panel of a glass door in his home in Dundalk on 26 October.
It took more than 20 minutes for a paramedic to arrive on the scene and almost 40 minutes for an ambulance to arrive. By that time, the father-of-two had lost a large amount of blood and was no longer breathing.
His partner Lindsay Cooney, who called the ambulance on the night, spoke to RTÉ’s Today with Sean O’Rourke of her frustration at waiting so long as she watched the father of her two children fade away.
“His whole forearm was completely opened, he was bleeding so much,” she said. Neighbours came to help and a paramedic arrived in a car 23 minutes after the call.
“Dualtagh was still breathing at this stage, he [the paramedic] came in wrapped his arm up in a bandage to stop the bleeding and kind of just sat down and waiting for the ambulance to arrive,” Conney said.
It was another 15 minutes before the ambulance would arrive.
They came in and put the mask on him to help his breathing, that’s all I saw. I thought we were going to hospital but the woman told me I wouldn’t be going and just stayed in the kitchen working on him. I wasn’t really allowed in.
He was never taken out of my house, he died in my kitchen.
Traumatising
Lindsay, who is currently pregnant with a third child, said it was a “traumatising” experience. She and Dualtagh’s family have blamed health cuts for his death and have questioned how it is possible it took so long for an ambulance to reach someone who was so seriously injured.
Commenting on the story today, Health Minister Leo Varadkar offered his condolences to the family and said any complaint will be fully investigated.
When asked about having a dedicated ambulance stationed in Dundalk, he replied:
“HIQA have advised that the best practice is to have dynamic deployment of ambulances rather than having a strategic placement of vehicles, a bit like Hailo, so the nearest vehicle will attend a scene, and that’s what we’re moving towards.”
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Aged between 12 and 14 … Just shows evil has no age .. How can you protect against that
the sad thing is he may not have willingly worn it -
Adults should know better, but a kid that young has clearly been severely indoctrinated (as have all of Daesh’s foot soldiers). Tragic and heinous attack.
He may not have known what he was wearing
There are a lot of reports of young children/teens being manipulated into performing suicide bombings, with their families and friends being threatened. I can’t imagine how difficult it must be to be put in that position.
@Steve McMahon-By stopping immigration from this Ideology masquerading as a religion we can at least partially protect ourselves ,-but it’s coming our way for sure under existing conditions.
Erdogan appears to have incredible investigative powers, has definitively solved this one a few hours after the event. Just like the coup, where the entire civil service was gutted a couple of days later.
@Michael Garvey-But Erdogan does have his admirers,-one being What-difference-does-it-make-now-Hillary Clinton!
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—-”Clinton clearly views Erdoğan as a formidable leader, having described him in her memoir, “Living History,” as an “ambitious, forceful, devout, and effective politician.—”
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http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/the-future-of-us-turkey-relations.aspx?pageID=449&nID=103093&NewsCatID=396
He prob is forceful, devout and ambitious.
And now he has said they have no idea what age the perpetrator was
So Erdogan is saying this.Ya,I’ll believe it.
Equating the PKK to Daesh is a nice slice of doublethink and propaganda from Erdogan alright.
Wonder if the lady who is mentironed above is the mother who lost 4 of her children ….horrendous loosing one child is unthinkable but 4 …I have no words.
“The president said the Islamic State group was the “likely perpetrator” of the bomb attack, the deadliest in 2016, that targeted a celebration attended by many Kurds.”
Yeah, because I hear that out of the two of them it’s IS that hates the Kurds the most, and not Erdogan. Uh huh.
These so called Islamists are the devil’s disiples,nothing else.They are not Muslims and have no right whatsoever to quote the Koran or shout allahu akbar! None ! So next time when young men and women are in their bedroom on their computer being brainwashed on the ideology that they should carry out their “duty “to Muhammad by murdering innocent people,realise that you are doing it for the Devil ok No one else.you are NOT Muslims. You are vicious murdering brutes with no rational cause and are not going to be with 7 lovely brides in paradise. You are just going to burn in hell.
@Gerry Fallon-The Koran the Islamists use to justify themselves is the same Koran that all other Muslim use and Muslims will not tolerate any revision of its contents saying that the commands of Allah are unalterable.
All Muslims pay the Annual 2.5% ZAKAT Charity tax amounting to over $200 Billion and 1/8th of this is earmarked by Sharia Law for Jihad against non-Muslims and apostates. This is stated unequivocally in the Hanbook of Sharia Law called ‘The Reliance of the Traveller’ see below and link.All Muslims know where this money goes to and so all Muslims are complicit in Global Terror against non-Muslims and Apostaes.
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—-”H8.17: Those Fighting for Allah/Category 7
The seventh category is those fighting for Allah, meaning people engaged in Islamic military operations for whom no salary has been allotted in the army roster (O: but who are volunteers for jihad without remuneration). They are given enough to suffice them for the operation, even if affluent; of weapons, mounts, clothing, and expenses (O: for the duration of the journey, round trip, and the time they spend there, even if prolonged.—”
http://islamexposed.blogspot.ie/2010/08/reliance-of-traveller-handbook-of.html
Strange for ISIS to be attacking their biggest ally?
One of their biggest allies, I think.
Anyway, is their any rational thinking to be expected from them?
Vile pigs
Watched some of the funerals of the victims on Turkish TV would break your heart so many small coffins …..one of a 3 month old baby . The heartbroken mother who lost 4 of her children said that what stopped her from taking her own life to be with her children was that she had a child still living who needed her.
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