Creeslough paramedic wins inaugural Dara Fitzpatrick award

The late Dara Fitzpatrick who is honoured in the name of the new paramedicine award. Capt Fitzpatrick lost her life during the Rescue 116 helicopter crash off the Mayo coast in March 2017. Picture Denis: Minihane

A paramedic who was one of the first responders at the scene of the explosion in Creeslough, Co Donegal has won the inaugural Dara Fitzpatrick Award.

The award was launched by the Irish Paramedicine Education and Research Network (IPERN) at the University of Limerick on International Women's Day to honour the memory of one of Ireland’s first female search and rescue pilots who lost her life in 2017 while on a rescue mission.