Two ambulance crews call cops on unruly patients

TWO ambulance crews who were bringing patients from Dundalk for treatment at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda last week were forced to pull over on the motorway to ring Gardai after the people on board became ‘unco-operative’.

Details of the incidents, which both happened within the space of just over an hour in the early hours of Sunday, were released by Gardai yesterday.

In the first incident, at around 12.15am, an ambulance crew were bringing a 38-year-old man to hospital in Drogheda for treatment because he was so intoxicated.

But south of Dundalk, the paramedics were forced to pull over onto the hard shoulder of the motorway and contact Gardai after the man became unco-operative.

Gardai arrived at the scene a short time later and the man, who is from Dundalk, was arrested for public order offences.

The second incident, at 1.40am, involved a 31-year-old woman who was also intoxicated and was brought from her home after an ambulance was called.

The crew pulled over at the southbound station of Applegreen at Castlebellingham and contacted the Gardai in Ardee, who again, arrested the patient on suspicion of public order offences.

Meanwhile, Gardai are also investigating an incident at Bellingham Castle when the Northern number plates of a guest’s Fiat Lima were stolen last Friday while he was at a wedding.