Clare Fm - Podcasts

It's not the only late addition to Fine Gael's ticket, Dr Tom Nolan from Kilkee previously served as GP in the region from 1980 to 2015 and now specialised in musculoskeletal medicine. Dr Nolan was a prominent campaigner against the HSE's reconfiguration which closed Accident and Emergency Units in Ennis, Nenagh and St.John's in 2009 and claims there's still a case to be answered as to how it was handled. He says the Government of the time failed to provide the number of GPs required and recommended in Clare from the relevant report which downgraded the county hospital and says this must be urgently rectified.