Ambulance response times in Leitrim 'some of the worst'

It's been claimed that ambulance response times in Leitrim are still some of the worst in the country.

It comes as nationally, ambulances took over an hour to arrive at high priority calls 500 times in the first half of the year.

Between January and June, delays of up to four hours were reported in some high risk cases that the National Ambulance Service had been tasked to.

Sligo is among the counties deemed least likely to have prolonged ambulance response times.

But Sinn Fein Cllr Brendan Barry feels that that is not the case in Leitrim and has iterated his call for more resources locally: