It was a life -threatening emergency.
It took 1 hour and 57 minutes for an ambulance to arrive at a life-threatening emergency call in Co Kildare.
This is one of 20 life-threatening emergency calls in 6 months, where ambulances took over 90 minutes to arrive.
The longest waiting time was nearly 2 hours and 19 minutes.
The target time for an ambulance to arrive at a life-threatening emergency call, is within 19 minutes.
However, between January and June of this year, the response time was over an hour in 308 cases.
The longest was 2 hours and 19 minutes to an emergency in a rural part of Co Galway.
Eoin Murphy reports:
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