A range of roles among first responders

Hairdressers, healthcare operatives, shop assistants, and a council worker are among 19 lifesavers attached to a first responder unit covering the east Cork and west Waterford region.

The voluntary emergency service graduates are involved with the Youghal Cardiac First Responder service which conferred qualification certificates on five trainees from Cork’s Blarney Street first responders at a ceremony in the Walter Raleigh Hotel.

The Youghal graduates, aged from 20 to 59, undertook a twice-weekly, exam-assessed comprehensive training programme to become proficient in cardiac first responder (CFR) and emergency first responder (EFR) techniques.