Father’s death sparks defibrillator initiative

A WOMAN spoke yesterday about how her father’s sudden death inspired her to raise enough money to install life-saving defibrillators on the streets of her town.

Siobhán Linehan helped unveil details yesterday of the plan to install up to 12 publicly accessible automated external defibrillators (AEDs) at various locations around Killarney, Co Kerry.

AEDs deliver a therapeutic dose of electrical energy to a heart in cardiac arrest that is designed to restore its normal rhythm.