Denzil McDaniel: Rows over the border have been a constant since 1921

Considering all the demographic changes in the western counties of Northern Ireland, it seems remarkable that various attempts at addressing the anomalies and tensions caused by a border, meant in 1921 to be a temporary solution, came to nothing

This chart shows the number of emergency incidents in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland which required paramedics to cross the NI/ROI border to provide additional support. The data is from October 2015 - when ambulance data in the Republic was first collated in electronic format on a centralised database - to March 2018. The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service attended 221 cross-border emergency calls in the Republic while their counterparts in the National Ambulance Service responded to 132 incidents in Northern Ireland during the timeframe. See also the chart 'Ambulance Call-outs from Northern Ireland to the Republic (by county)' in our Data Guide Brexit.


Data source: Northern Ireland Ambulance Service and the National Ambulance Service (Ireland)