CFR skills saved my life, says lucky Kieran

BUSINESSMAN Kieran Corcoran is living proof of the success of a new community-based medical response project which has been rolled out across Cork and Kerry.

The 52-year-old father-of-one from Cork city, who suffered full cardiac arrest on the side of a road in 2008, is alive today thanks to Mary O’Sullivan from Mallow, a trained community first responder (CFR).

“I know I am the luckiest man alive today,” Mr Corcoran said as Health Minister Mary Harney launched a new CFR group in Clonakilty, Co Cork.