The lives of patients are being put at risk because of "improvements works" at a busy national ambulance station, angry paramedics claim.
The Drogheda Ambulance Station has become a building site and is in breach of health and safety rules, they allege.
Furious staff say it is affecting their ability to respond to 999 calls because of delays getting in and out of the Station at the rear of the Drogheda Cottage Hospital, Co Louth but they also have been unable to properly refresh their life saving equipment in their three vehicles.