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Daisy writes:

The wonderful journalist Peter Carvosso, who died earlier this week after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease, wrote this piece back in 2002, about the death of his (first) wife Philippa. How sad that, 15 years later, it seems very little has changed for many patients looking for a bed in A&E.

Chaos In Casualty (Peter Carvosso, Irish Independent, March 2002)

Previously: Goodbye Peter

Paddy McKitterick (top left in white coat) and Niall O’Leary (white coat right) push Niamh Quigley (aged 9) in a hospital trolley at a protest to save accident and emergency services in St Columcille’s Hospital in Loughlinstown today in Bray Co Wicklow.

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)