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THOUSANDS OF people turned out to protest at the possible downgrading or closure of hospitals in Wexford and Donegal at the weekend.

Up to 4,000 people marched through Wexford on Saturday to voice their concerns that Wexford General Hospital could lose its round the clock emergency department when the Health Service Executive (HSE) reconfigures acute hospital services in the southeast.