Independent Alliance TD and junior minister John Halligan on Kildare Street, Dublin 2 this afternoon

Further to reports that Independent Alliance TD John Halligan has threatened to leave Government after an independent review didn’t support his calls for a second cathorisation laboratory at University Hospital Waterford…

And reports that the Independent Alliance is to hold an emergency meeting with Fine Gael later today…

Hopeless Surfer tweetz:

John Halligan shoots himself in foot with hospital report, then decides to get tough…

Halligan warns Govt could fall if WUH promise broken (RTE)

Alternatively: Minister John Halligan used “erroneous” figures to overstate level of cardiac services at Waterford Hospital (No Expenses Spared, Ken Foxe)

Pic: Jim O’Callaghan