Man who survived heart attack thanks to public defibrillator says vandals are ‘beneath contempt’

A man who survived a massive heart attack thanks to a publicly available defibrillator has condemned vandalism to Cork City’s first 24/7 life-saving device.

Nigel O’Sullivan, 51, from Tower in Cork, spoke out yesterday following his discharge from Cork University Hospital (CUH) just days after bypass surgery.

“The defibrillator, and the people who used it, saved my life. It’s a simple as that. If it wasn’t for the crew, and the machine, I was gone,” he said.