According to Chase Ackerman, director of First Branch Ambulance, the service’s first “ambulance” in 1984 was a repurposed hearse. The crew then was made up of 10 local volunteers. Forty years later, ...
A sense of shock as to how a guest of the esteemed five-star Ballyfin Demesne hotel could have died in such tragic circumstances, has pervaded the surrounding villages of north Laois since the news ...