Westport Community First Responders

Westport Community First Responders Westport Cardiac First Responders are a group of local trained volunteers who will respond to cardiac emergency calls alongside the National Ambulance Service.

A Cardiac First Responder (CFR) is a person trained to a minimum level of basic life support in CPR and the use of an AED/defibrillator, who attends an actual or potentially life threatening emergency such as a cardiac arrest, heart attack, stroke or choking.

�Our CFR group was established in November 19.
�We, like everyone got stopped with Covid March 20
�We returned to active training in April 2021
�We went live August 2021 (dispatched by National Ambulance Service (NAS) to cardiac incidents in westport)
��We have CPR live saving Training every month since we went live

CPR saves lives. We want to help save more hearts in westport in 2022. Stay tuned here to hear how you can help us help the community �

To date we have trained 15 members of the local community in Fahy with more to follow on November. Here are the group fr...
23/10/2025

To date we have trained 15 members of the local community in Fahy with more to follow on November. Here are the group from this week. Thanks to everyone for giving up their evening.
Fahy Centre Fahy Rovers Afc Fahy Community Development

Best of luck to our friends Newport Community first Responders in raising funds for Public Assess AEDS locally. Please ...
15/10/2025

Best of luck to our friends Newport Community first Responders in raising funds for Public Assess AEDS locally. Please support this worth cause if available on the night and it promises to be a great nights entertainment.

We are hosting this fantastic concert to raise funds for essential equipment for the group who will be an asset to our town.
Please support us on the night and enjoy an evening of beautiful songs

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Well done to the 5 participants from the Fahy area who gave their Monday evening up to attend CPR training. Thanks to Ma...
13/10/2025

Well done to the 5 participants from the Fahy area who gave their Monday evening up to attend CPR training. Thanks to Maggie at Fahy Rovers Afc and to Emilie and the committee at Fahy Centre for helping us and allowing us to run the session there. To date we have trained 10 locals in the Fahy community on the vital skill of CPR.

Thanks to Westport United FC for allowing us to deliver this course. We were very lucky to have interested and willing p...
25/09/2025

Thanks to Westport United FC for allowing us to deliver this course. We were very lucky to have interested and willing participants. Thanks for your time.

On Saturday we got the opportunity to run a CFR course where 6 new Community First Responders were successful in becomin...
28/07/2025

On Saturday we got the opportunity to run a CFR course where 6 new Community First Responders were successful in becoming part of the network. Thanks to our instructor Caroline King and to Joe and Brittany from Westport Community First Responders and to Michael, Rita. Breda and Heidi of the newly formed Newport Community first Responders who will go live with the national ambulance service in the near future. Thanks also for the continued support to Michael, GM in the Westport Plaza Hotel Spa

National Ambulance Service (NAS) CFR Ireland Midwest Radio The Mayo News Cllr Brendan Mulroy Peter Flynn Keira Keogh TD

Once again this week we used the dry weather to take our monthly training outdoors, again at the fairgreen. If anyone i...
23/07/2025

Once again this week we used the dry weather to take our monthly training outdoors, again at the fairgreen. If anyone is interested in hearing more about us or perhaps come along to one of our trainings message us and we would be delighted to help.

Peter Flynn The Mayo News Cllr Brendan Mulroy Keira Keogh TD

Happy Monday!!. We will be starting our free CPR classes over the next few weeks. If your interested please message us o...
21/07/2025

Happy Monday!!. We will be starting our free CPR classes over the next few weeks. If your interested please message us on Facebook where we will contact you to see what date suits and we will get your name included. Thanks a million.

The Mayo News Peter Flynn The Mayo News

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