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Concerns over ambulance response times in Connemara were raised at Tuesday’s HSE Western Regional Health Forum, prompting calls from local representatives for expanded services in rural Galway.

Ambulances in the Galway area that need to be repaired have to be taken to Limerick as there is no authorised dealer to fix them locally, the HSE’s Regional Health Forum was told this week.

A former city mayor has launched a blistering attack on a level of ambulance cover in Connemara saying it was “outrageous” that a 60-year-old man with a life threatening illness had to wait by the side of the road for an ambulance for almost an hour.