Beating Hearts - Wicklow

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Beating Hearts - Wicklow It makes me happy to know that defibrillators are being put close to homes - help save lives This is too long. Cardiac Arrests are TIME SENSITIVE.

Beating Hearts was founded by Chris Daly, Myrtle McElwee, Claire Hopkins and Caroline Mooney, a group of like-minded volunteers devoted to saving lives in their own community. Originally members of a community first response organisation, they want to highlight the gap in the provision of AED/Defibrillators in neighbourhoods or residential areas. They timed how long it would take to get from several housing estates to the nearest defibrillator in a public street in their home town of Wicklow and discovered it would take at a minimum 8 minutes without traffic! Ideally a defibrillator should be deployed within 3 minutes following the commencement of CPR.

70% of all non-hospital cardiac arrests in Ireland happen at home and yet there are few, if any, defibrillators in neighbourhoods or residential areas. The aim of Beating Hearts is to raise awareness of this gap and encourage everyone to advocate for the installation of defibrillators/AEDs in their local area, neighbourhoods etc.

Great to see so much interest in CPR and to see so many defibrillators now in residential areas. Deep respect to Myrtle ...
30/04/2026

Great to see so much interest in CPR and to see so many defibrillators now in residential areas. Deep respect to Myrtle McElwee and Karl Canavan for giving so much of their free time to train residents - free of charge, and to do so time and time again. This selflessness is what it means to be a great community. Wicklow now has the greatest number of residential defibrillators in residential areas. Debrillators should be the norm in every residential area. Every residents association needs to get in touch with their local representatives to find out if their estate is on the list for a free defibrillator. The funding can and should be sought from Local Property Tax.

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