Photo: Ray Ryan

Giving a community a lifeline

HELPING keep a community alive is literally what the work of volunteers in a North Galway parish is doing. Possible life-saving devices have been rolled out in locations throughout the some 400 homes in the region and hundreds of people have been trained in basic life-saving skills.
When a few people came together in Milltown in 2008 to discuss the idea of getting a defibrillator (AED) machine for the village it quickly became apparent that one just wouldn't do. Whose life do you choose not to try and save by restricting the machine's location to one place?
One unit was never an option, recalls Chairperson of the Milltown AED Group Padraig Coyne who now, eight years on, looks at the AED map for the parish which clearly shows the location of 14 AED units.

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