By Iveren McCallion
A Southern Trust nurse has said if it wasn't for Daisy Hill's Emergency Department her son would have died.
Gabrielle O'Neill addressed a protest rally against reducing the hospital's A&E opening hours.
The Trust hinted at the move to cope with what it calls a 'serious shortage of Emergency doctors'.
Gabrielle's son Ruairi was rushed to Daisy Hill before Christmas with bacterial meningitis and fell into a coma.
She believes he survived because of the actions of the hospital's Emergency Department staff:
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