A FACEBOOK PAGE called ‘Save Youghal Ambulance’ was set up on Monday, July 11th and has already gained over 1,000 supporters. The page states that ‘From September 2011 the HSE plan to remove the Youghal Ambulance full-time from the town and plan to replace it with a solo paramedic response car.

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From September 2011 the HSE plan to remove the Youghal Ambulance full-time from the town. They plan to replace it with a solo paramedic response car. This means that if a medical emergency happens anywhere within the town or surrounding areas including Ardmore, Killeagh, Castlemartyr, Ballycotton, Knockanore and further afield the casualty will have to wait for AT LEAST 20 mins before an ambulance from Midleton, Dungarvan, Fermoy or even Cork City arrives to take them to hospital (this could take up to an hour!). This makes it impossible for a casualty to make it to an A+E Department within the recommended ‘golden hour’ and greatly reduces their chances of survival.
This decision has to be reversed or else lives will be lost!
- Please suggest this page to all of your friends as it may effect any one of your friends and family.
- Please also sign local petitions (details to follow)
- We will be asking you to write to the HSE and government soon also to voice your concerns and more details on how to do this will follow.

Below are just some of the comments on the Save Youghal Ambulance facebook page:

Tara O Connell
I think the petition might not be enough to change this decision, I think its time Youghal stood up and was counted, we have stayed quiet for long enough, lets take to the streets and stand up for our town, get camera crews and newspapers down and let them all know that we will not take this, and we do not want lives put at risk!!!

Anne Marguerite Graf
It is ludicrous to discontinue with the Ambulance Service. Upon a person sustaining a stroke or heart attack, the ambulance where I live in Nürnberg Germany is on the scene within 7 minutes. It is absolutely detrimental to be without an ambulance.

Anthony Mullane
got a spin off ye guys 6 years ago, and could not praise ye highly enough, patrick mc hung on awhile in the hospital, and was a great comfort to me and helen, i hope i wont need ye for awhile, but it would be nice to know ye were there, the people of youghal need and depend on this service, regards to all

Michaela Bailey
Maybe whoever made this decsion In the government should sit in the ambulance when the paramedics are doin the fantastic work they do in Youghal every day… And then see if the town doesn’t need an ambulance… The Youghal paramedics were amazing when my grandad was sick, and to this day I will thank them from the bottom of my heart. I’m sure the town will do whatever we can to save the ambulance in Youghal! X

Click here to visit the Save Youghal Ambulance facebook page

Klueners v Taylor tonight FRIDAY MAY 6th at the Walter Raleigh Hotel

Further news of the tournament will appear on the hotel’s website www.walterraleighhotel.com and on its Facebook pages whilst hotel booking can be made of course through the website or by phoning Telephone: 024-92011 or Fax: 024-93560.

As revealed on SportsNewsIreland, efforts were being made to find another opponent for World Champion Katie Taylor to fight in front of Irish fans before she heads off to defend her European titles, and such an opponent has now been found in Maike Klueners from Neuss, in Germany, like Taylor 24, but with a completely different background in the sport. Maike , trained by Pasquale Ferrano at the Dusseldorf BoxRing club is a former Muay Thai German and European champion,and a bronze medallist at the 2006 World Muay Thai tournament.

She is better known in the boxing ring for her performances in the 57kg class rather than at 60 kg. Like so many fighters striving for success in London 2012, Maike now finds it necessary to move to the 60 kg category.She is currently ranked no 10 in Boxing’s latest world rankings at 57kg. She has in fact fought at 57kg in the 2010 World boxing championships in Barbados where she got a bronze, losing only to Tunisia’s Rim Jouini in the semi-final.

 

She is though improving all the time, even if her record is nothing sensational with some 12 defeats in 33 fights since moving to boxing. Her clash with Taylor is scheduled for May 6th at the Walter Raleigh Hotel in Youghal, Co. Cork in a tournament organised by the St John’s Boxing Club in Fermoy. Taylor has always been very popular in Cork – indeed she performed the opening ceremony for new St John’s Boxing Club in its home town in October 2009 when one of the club’s founders, Pa Flynn described Katie Taylor as ‘ one of the greatest sportswomen this country ever produced’.

“I was the Irish team manager in 2005 when Katie won her first gold medal at the European Amateur Championships in Norway. She was only 17 at the time,” Mr Flynn said.

“It will take a very good girl to beat Katie for a gold medal at the 2012 Olympics,” he added.

Certainly it is great for boxing in Ireland that fans around the country can see Taylor in action,outside of the National Stadium.There is a huge new interest in womens boxing in Ireland due in no small measure to the successes of Taylor in recent years and to the great work of the IABA Women’s Development Manager, Anja Norman.

In recent months Taylor has also fought in New Ross (Co Wexford) and in Dungarvan (Co.Waterford), on both occasions defeating World No 2, China’s Cheng Dong convincingly.

In 2011, the Bray fighter , is due to defend her European Union title in Katowice, Poland in late May and her European Championship crown in Rotterdam in late October so the Youghal event well be one of the last opportunities that Irish fans have to see her in action before she leaves for foreign lands.

Fans travelling a long distance and worried about getting out of Youghal late on a Friday night need have no fears. Walter Raleigh Hotel’s General Manager, Michael Davitt tells me that Single rooms are available for the night at 59 Euros B+B or a Twin/Double at 79 Euros inc B+B.

Further news of the tournament will appear on the hotel’s website www.walterraleighhotel.com and on its Facebook pages whilst hotel booking can be made of course through the website or by phoning Telephone: 024-92011 or Fax: 024-93560.

Historic Youghal, Europe’s 2nd oldest Port, has lots to enjoy for visitors to the area inc lovely sandy beaches nearby so what a great weekend in store for those who want to combine seeing our World Champion in action on Friday 6th May with the delights of East Cork .

Finally, a reminder that Katie Taylor is in action in Bray on Good Friday 22nd April, when she takes on the Spanish titleholder, Jennifer Miranda Maqueda at the Royal Hotel & Merrill Leisure Centre in her home town of Bray – an occasion when Ms Miranda will be seeking revenge for her loss to Taylor in their last 16 bout at the European Union Championships in Keszthely, Hungary, last August. Having enjoyed so much media coverage in recent weeks from her Lucozade ads, I’m sure Katie will be too much energetic for her European opponents in the coming weeks.

 

 

Info: Klueners v Taylor set for Youghal by Michael O’Neill courtesy www.sportsnewsireland.com

Katie faces tough test in Youghal – By Brendan Mooney

KATIE TAYLOR puts the finishing touches to her preparations for the EU championships at the Night of Champions promoted by St John’s Boxing Club, Fermoy, at the Walter Raleigh Hotel, Youghal on Friday, May 6.

Pa Flynn, PRO and coach with St John’s, brought Taylor to Fermoy in 2005 when she turned in an explosive performance to stop Welsh champion, Lorna Cooper, in just 30 seconds.

Since then the Bray woman has gone on to win three world titles, four European championships and will be bidding for a fourth EU title in her next outing after Youghal.

She has boxed four times in Fermoy and her most memorable contest there was against the Canadian champion, Katie Dunne, which she won 18-11.

In Youghal she will face a new opponent in the German 57kg champion, Maike Klueners, a quarter-finalist at last year’s world championships.

The Youghal bill has 14 bouts featuring some of this year’s national senior championship stars. At heavyweight, Pat O’Shea (Army/Sunnyside) who is a world military championships silver medallist, will take on Thomas Rohan from the Ballinacarrow club in Sligo.

Welterweight Craig McCarthy (St Paul’s, Waterford) will box intermediate champion, Conor Tighe. At super heavyweight, Galway’s Pat Corcoran will meet Chris Devanney (Ballinacarrow) who went the distance with China’s Olympic silver medallist in Dungarvan last month.

 

This appeared in the printed version of the Irish Examiner Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Read more: http://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/other-sport/katie-faces-tough-test-in-youghal-152638.html#ixzz1LItnfR6P

Collectors needed for Special Olympics Ireland’s annual collection day

Special Olympics Ireland’s annual Collection Day, sponsored by eircom will take place on Friday 15th April. This is the biggest annual fundraising event in aid of Special Olympics Ireland and we need 3,500 volunteers to help us collect on the day.

Collection points will be set up in 169 cities and towns throughout Ireland. Co. Cork will very much involved on the day with collection points in: Cork City, Clonakilty, Macroom, Mallow, Fermoy, Skibbereen, Kinsale, Midleton, Bandon and Youghal. Any amount of time you could spare to help us collect on the day would be greatly appreciated. You can get involved by texting COLLECT followed by your NAME and COUNTY to 51444 or alternatively by visiting www.specialolympics.ie/collectionday . You can also contact the Special Olympics Munster office on: 021 497 7192.

All the money raised on the day will go to support Special Olympics Ireland’s programme of sport for people with an Intellectual Disability. There are 11,000 athletes involved in 413 Special Olympics clubs throughout Ireland. This year 126 of these athletes will represent Ireland at the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Athens.

A clip from an interview with Irish Examiner journalist Jennifer Hough speaking with Cllr. Tom Barry, Fine Gael general election candidate for the Cork East constituency who was canvassing at Corrinview, Fermoy, Co Cork. Camera Dan Linehan

The 3rd Annual Classic Ford 4 Cystis Fibrosis (CF 4 CF) run starting point this year was a Farrell’s,  Summerfield Bar,Youghal ( 29th August 2010) Photo: Michael Hussey www.youghalonline.com Email: news@youghalonline.com

The route took the fundraisers to Dungarvan where they turn off along the coast road to take in a lunch stop in Tramore. After lunch the run headed back in the direction of Dungarvan and on towards Cappaquin, Lismore and then Fermoy to finish. The weather was great and there was fantastic support for this charity event. Build 4 Life was founded by friends and family of Cystic Fibrosis patients in Cork and Kerry.

The aim of Build 4 Life is to:-

* Raise Awareness of Cystic Fibrosis in the region
* Raise over €1 million to develop Ireland’s first dedicated Cystic Fibrosis treatment unit within Cork University Hospital.

We are appealing to organisations, schools, businesses and individuals to organise a fund raising event or make a donation to raise vital funds for Cystic Fibrosis.

Photo: Michael Hussey (YoughalOnline.com)

St. Raphael’s Centre, Youghal was the starting point for over four hundred machines of every type and size as motorcyclists from all over Munster set off, for the sixth year running, in the annual charity motorcycle rally that took them through Dungarvan, Lismore, Fermoy, Cork and on to Kinsale. The occasion was part of a major fundraising effort for the sick children of five Cork hospitals. Refreshments were provided for the riders who had committed to the route of 135 miles.

They are helping to fund a brief holiday for the children in Euro Disney, Paris, next May. Each motorcyclist contributes at least €25 for the privilege of riding with about 400 other bikers on the trip, organised, as before, by Read more

Sister Bridie Walsh is a Presentation Sister, a native of Ballycotton, and a past Principal of Bun Scoil Mhuire. She taught for many years in Youghal and Fermoy.
To help Sister Bridie in her great work in Pakistan, an evening of music with Cadenza, Classical, Broadway and Contemporary Song will be held in Youghal at the Mall Arts Centre on Wednesday, August 20th next at 8.00pm sharp. Complimentary cheese and wine at the interval.
There are many people in the town of Youghal who will remember Sister Bridie, and your support for her wonderful work will be appreciated. Tickets are €20 each and are available at Crees Card Shop.
In 2005 Sister Bridie retired and went on a Sabbatical visit to Pakistan. So impressed with the Presentation Sisters there and the fantastic work which they do, Sr. Bridie decided to give her time and energy to educational development in that country. Sr. Bridie was assigned to the City of Jhelum in Punjab Province, where the Sisters run a Read more