Kilkenny ranks poorly in national leaderboard report reveals
Thirty-four ambulance delays have been reported in Kilkenny
Ambulances took over an hour to arrive for high-priority calls more than 500 times in the first six months of this year, with 34 delays reported in Kilkenny according to the Irish Examiner.
In some cases, delays of up to four hours were reported following calls to the National Ambulance Service (NAS).
However, the NAS did say there were no one-hour-plus delays in the highest-priority category of incidents in the first half of this year.
Cork reported the highest number of delays (77) with Wexford (41) and Tipperary (35) amongst the counties with the greatest number of delays in 2024 so far.