New Buncrana ambulance base confirmed

The National Ambulance Service will commence their move to a new ambulance base at the old health centre, Buncrana, it has been confirmed.

The service in Buncrana will initially be a 12-hour service, seven days a week and based at the old health centre on the McCarter Road.

The National Ambulance Service are finalising plans to carry out the necessary adaptation works at the old health centre and they will then increase this to a 24-hour service, seven days a week in the near future.

Welcoming the announcement Donegal TD Pádraig Mac Lochlainn said: "The people of Buncrana and Inishowen have long campaigned for a permanent ambulance base in Buncrana and a second base to serve the peninsula along with the Carndonagh base. So, this is good news for our people.

"Unfortunately, there have been many instances of long waiting times for an ambulance for our people in Inishowen, in emergencies, over the years. This was always unacceptable and amounted to second class citizenship for our people."