Organisation: Blood Bike South

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

'It was touch and go': Blood Bike South ride to the rescue for Cork mother and daughter

Freya's daughter Arabella was born with a rare heart defect resulting in her needing open heart surgery. The newborn was taken from Cork to a hospital in Dublin which was where Blood Bike South transported vital breast milk as she awaited the operation

Sun, 18 Aug, 2024

Cork volunteer with Blood Bike South has motorbike stolen

As a member of the bike community in Ireland, Mr Peeters said there has been a noticeable uptick in the number of motorcycle thefts around the country

Thu, 25 Apr, 2024

Meet the volunteer bikers who transport medical supplies and files across the country

Michael Clifford meets the bikers who give up their time to assist the health service in transporting supplies and files

Tue, 03 Jan, 2017

HSE fails to use free transfer service in South

The HSE South continues to pay taxis and couriers to transport blood samples, breast milk and human tissue even though a motorcycle charity has been lobbying for almost a year to provide the service free of charge.

Mon, 16 Feb, 2015

Blood Bikers provide vital service to HSE

The HSE could be saved a small fortune thanks to a bikers’ charity which aims to provide high-speed transfer of blood and other medical materials to and from hospitals.

Mon, 21 Oct, 2013