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NEARLY 30% OF people in Ireland live within 5km of an emergency department, according to a new report from the Central Statistics Office (CSO).
Ireland’s national statistics office published a new report today called Measuring Distance to Everyday Services in Ireland. It combined data from multiple sources to show how close or far away Irish people live from common facilities such as schools, GPs and public transport stops.
The report found that a bus stop was the closes public transport option for 93% of the population. For 5% of people, a train station is the closest public transport option.
One-fifth of Ireland’s population lives less than 500 metres from a pharmacy. Two-thirds of people live within 2km of a GP, while 4% live 10km or more away.
Dermot Corcoran, a CSO statistician said the results indicated people in the counties of Galway, Donegal, Mayo, Leitrim and Roscommon had higher average distances to most of these services compared to other counties.
A large difference in distance can be seen between rural and urban areas. For example, a full-time operating garda station is 14.7km away from people living in rural Ireland on average, but just 3.7km away in urban areas.
Nearly one-third of the population overall lives 10km or more from a garda station operating 24 hours a day. This figure ran as high as 70% in Galway county and 64% in Leitrim.
People live around 20km from their nearest A&E department across the country, but in Dublin city this stands at 3km.
A secondary school is 3.8km away for the average person in Ireland and a primary school is 1.5km away.
Over 400,000 people live within 2km of a Luas station. For post offices, 60% of people live within a 2km distance, but this figure can range from 97% in Dublin city to 29% in Roscommon.
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Isreal have become brazen and a law onto themselves. Its not anti semetic to condemn their murderous tactics on unarmed palistinians. Time for the world to face up to them and enact santions.
@M: it’s not today or yesterday that they have become brazen. They have flouted every UN resolution that has been passed. Time has long since passed for them to be made adhere to some kind of law & be held account for their actions. Palestinian people don’t have a life, they don’t even have an existence and before anyone has a go at me. I don’t condone violence on any side and that includes Hamas. I keep thinking of the lovely children I met while visiting Palestine in 1991 and hope they got to reach adulthood. Something we all take for granted.
@Victor Feldman: A terrorist apartheid state
@M: they are savages!
I just watched the footage of the Isr4eli forces kicking punching and beating the pallbearers carry Shireen’s coffin with batons. My blood is boiling.
Gaza , the biggest concentration camp ever seen
Ironic , isn’t it ?
I would like to ask the person who wrote the article what exactly they think is a scuffle?? I would call that an outright batton charge. Animals attacking a funeral cortège.
@Brendan We Are One Ireland.: I just watch it. Shocking stuff by the Israeli scu.m. But I’m not surprised by the journal at all.
@Brendan We Are One Ireland.: Why do riot police turn up at a funeral procession. They did it to incite a reaction. They are utter sc.um.
It’s a disgraceful headline
@Brendan We Are One Ireland.: That is George Floyd levels of upsetting.
@Brendan We Are One Ireland.: well said
A US citizen, protected press correspondent murdered on foreign soul by a foreign army and no independent US investigation called for. Very strange and also noticeable that most statements coming out of politicians in the US don’t mention Israel. Unconditional love it seems.
My experiences with the IDF while in Israel were very unnerving, came across as very heavy handed always. I was only a tourist. Can you imagine living with that every day
Disgusting indignity perpetrated by the Israeli security forces. If that was a Jewish Israeli funeral and the remains of the person had been desecrated like that, there would have been a massacre in response.
Eh, a little more than ‘scuffles’, tragically.
This is not the first time the Israeli forces have murdered news reporters,sadly it will not the last. The Palestinian people have been downtrodden continuously by the Aparthied state of Israel for over 74 years now, with the help of financial and military assistance by the United States of America.
There is no analogy in the whole of the 20th and 21st century on what the people of Palestine have had to endure from the Aparthied state of Israel’s occupation forces on an ongoing basis.
Some examples of the illegal occupation of Palestine /ethnic cleansing / land theft / the building of illegal settlements / house demolitions / imprisonments without charge / the shooting of unarmed protesters / the constant intimidation and violence by IDF on civilians /
Neither the Palestinians or the Israelis can be trusted to investigate this killing!!!! It should be done investigated by the UN or any other independent organisation.
@Martin O Connell: 100%. But the Israelis would never allow that on their territory. Justice is almost impossible there.
@Eoin Roche: almost??
@Eoin Roche: the Israelis have no access to the body the bullet or the evidence the Palestinians have all that. It should be handed over independent investigators.
@Martin O Connell: What investigation is needed she was murdered by an Israeli sniper. You can pretend otherwise if you want.
@Martin O Connell: The Israelis were first out of the traps the other day to say they will not accept an international independent investigation. The US have backed them. US Department of State spokesman Ned Price said: “Israel has the wherewithal to conduct a thorough investigation”.
Israel doesn’t even recognise the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
@Martin O Connell: which the Palestinian Authority have said they will do.
@Fr. Fintan Stack: how can they stop the investigation if they do not have any of the evidence.
@Ray Finn: Hindering or even completely stopping investigators access to the site. Not allowing access to Israeli soldiers for interview. Even if the ICC found individuL soldiers guilty they wouldn’t be handed over. Any investigation needs cooperation from all sides.
@FiannaFáilness FineGaelness: how do you know the nationality of the shooter????? Neither you or I were there.
@M Bowe: and as I said neither the Palestinians or the Israelis are trustworthy enough to give an honest version of events.
Disgraceful, no dignity for the poor girl’s funeral
Apalling, not alone did they murder her but now they attack her funeral cortege. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-palestinian-mourners-al-jazeera-journalist-1.6452439?cmp=rss
I am not buying any Isreali fruit, veg or other products for the forseeable fututre
The headline of this article is disgraceful. At what point did journalists get so lazy or cowardly perhaps?
You’d drop whatever your carrying if you where having the legs batterd of you.
What do you expect from a Racist Apartheid State
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