Emergency Services Ireland

06/08/2025

06/08/2025

𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐝𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐝.
For Respond2025 we hope to have provided something for all levels of . Experienced CFRs, new CFR schemes, emerging CFR schemes and everyone interested or committed to increasing OHCA Survival. We hear current updates, we learn of the plans to improve OHCA survival, we hear from experts, we have numerous CFR related workshops our biggest selection ever this year, but we have a little fun too – we are volunteers. 𝑱𝒐𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑵𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌.

25/07/2025

The latest edition of Emergency Services Ireland is out now in both print and digital formts. Click on link for our digital edition
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25/07/2025

Response driving is frequently conflated with pursuit driving, according to D/Grada Mark Ferris, GRA Executive Member for the Dublin West Division.

Writing in the latest issue of Emergency Services Ireland he points to the urgent need for An Garda Síochána to address the lack of pursuit training for Gardaí, and claims that these policies will remain just theoretical and expose everyone involved to high-risk situations, not to mention representing a major risk to the public. Garda Representative Association An Garda Síochána Road Safety Authority Ireland Department of Justice Ireland

Response driving is frequently conflated with pursuit driving, according to Detective Garda Mark Ferris, GRA Executive Member for the Dublin West Division. ...

23/07/2025

The Irish Prison Service is running its latest campaign, which was launched in early July by Jim O'Callaghan TD Department of Justice Ireland to recruit 300 new prison officers. The deadline date for applications is Friday 1 August. The recruitment campaign also coincided with the launch of a '360° virtual prison tour' where the public, for the first time ever, will be able to see and travel within a live operational prison.

The 2025 recruitment campaign for the Irish Prison Service (IPS), which aims to attract 300 new recruits, was launched by the Minister for Justice, Home Aff ...

18/07/2025

With Community First Responders across the country celebrating the 20th anniversary, since the first CFR schemes were launched in January 2005, CFR Ireland is now putting final plans in place for 'RESPOND 2025' conference and exhibition which returns to the Mullingar Park Hotel on Saturday 27 September next.

Registration for the event will be available in the coming weeks, according to John Fitzgerald, Chair of CFR Ireland - the National First Responder Network, so stay tuned! Irish Heart Foundation Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council (PHECC) National Ambulance Service (NAS)

Community First Responders (CFRs) around Ireland are celebrating the 20th anniversary since the first CFR schemes were launched in January 2005, and now CFR ...

18/07/2025

The next Out of the Blue Training Careers Expo for EMS and military personnel will take place on Friday 5 September in the Radisson Blu Hotel, Athlone Tickets are on Eventbrite Events or can also be booked on www.outofthebluetraining.com/ Óglaigh na hÉireann / Irish Defence Forces An Garda Síochána National Ambulance Service (NAS) Irish Prison Service

Ireland's sole event specifically designed to support and guide emergency services and military personnel on the look-out to advance within their curre ...

13/01/2025

An innovative smartphone technology project for 'App-timising emergency response times' developed by three sisters from Presentation Secondary School in Tralee has won the overall award at this year's BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition HSE Ireland National Ambulance Service (NAS) An Garda Síochána Tralee Chamber Kerry County Council

Three sisters from Tralee won the top prize at this year’s BT Young Scientist of the Year for their smartphone technology project – ACT (Aid Care Treat): Ap ...

09/01/2025

Firefighters from across the state have arrived to relieve local fire crews.... According to officials more than 1,000 structures, mostly homes, were destroyed to date, while over 130,000 people remain under evacuation orders in the metropolitan area....

At least five people killed as six fires burn across the Los Angeles County with officials expecting the death toll to rise.

07/01/2025

Rescue Org Ireland will hold this year's National Rescue & CPR Challenge at Dublin Fire Brigade Training Centre in Marino on Saturday 24 May next.

Rescue Organisation Ireland (ROI) is calling on all community first responders, voluntary and professional emergency services personnel to take part in this ...

25/10/2024

Check out our latest digital edition https://bit.ly/3C8vq2O Email [email protected] to be on the mailing list!

25/10/2024

A new bereavement support initiative has been jointly launched by Galway University Hospital’s Bereavement Support Services and the Irish Hospice Foundation ...