Irish Red Cross Volunteer Awards

Congrats and Well Done to Ballinora/Ballincollig branch member Marie McSweeney who has been announced as the Health and Social Care Volunteer of the year.

This is a well deserved award for Marie in recognition of all her hard work.

Well done also to Cork Area that have been awarded area of the year. 

Marie McSweeney pictured with members of the Cork Area

CONGRATULATIONS

A massive congratulations this evening to our Senior Bike Unit who have been awarded first place at the All-Ireland competitions. Well done to Eileen and Geraldine and thanks to everyone who assisted in their training especially Imelda O' Connor and Denis Dineen. 

Geraldine and Eileen pictured with their well deserved silverware along
with Driver Eddie Fitzgerald and trainer Imelda O' Connor

Eileen, Geraldine, Imelda, Eddie and Kevin Brennan from the Mallow
branch of the Red Cross.

Senior Bike Competition

Great training session for our bike team this weekend. They are representing Cork South West at the All Ireland Senior bicycle competition next weekend.  

Thank you to all our unit members who have assisted in training and also to the team trainers. 

Best of Luck

Floor tests in action during training this weekend.

News Bulletin

Pat and Imelda O' Connor receive the Ballinora People of the
year award with their family from Fr Mansfield

Ballinora/Ballincollig branch of the red cross would like to extend their most sincere congratulations to members, Pat and Imelda O Connor on recently receiving the Ballinora people of the year award. Pat and Imelda are highly deserving of this award and its an honour for our members to be awarded in such a fantastic initiative. Thanks to Imelda and Pat for all their exceptional work and contribution, not only to our own branch but also to the Irish Red Cross on a larger scale.

Upcoming events in our branch include a hand care training day which will be run by Marie McSweeney on the 28^th of May. If anybody interested (Male of Female) please contact Marie on 087-6537347 for further information. 

Recently our community CFR group received a grant from the Cork County council. This is fasntastic and will be used towards some of the cost of replacement batteries for the AED’s that are located around our area.

Our training continues weekly on Wednesday nights. 

Keep up to date with all our activities on our blog page http://ballinoraballincolligredcross.blogspot.ie/. 

Should you require first aid cover for any event, please contact Ballinora/Ballincollig Red cross on 087-9276518

Bike Unit

St Patrick's Day was an exciting one for our branch, our new bike unit had their first outing at the Ballincollig St Patrick's Day parade. Denis Dineen and Gillian Beasley were part of the crew on the day and the bikes proved to be hugely successful.

Contact us on 087-9276518 if you would like our bike unit to cover your events.

Community Garda Presentation

Garda Liam Linhan speaking to our
branch on road safety

On the 2nd of March, Ballincollig Community Garda Liam Linehan visited the branch and gave a very interesting talk on Road Safety with a particular emphasis on safety while cycling on public roads. Garda Linehan gave us a great insight into the safety aspects of cyclists with many very useful tips regarding our visibility and the rules of the road as a cyclist. This much welcomed talk was in advance of our new bike initiative to be launched within our branch soon. Watch this space for further information.

Comhghairdeas

Congratulations to Katie O' Riordan and Barry O' Sullivan who were recently appointed assistant unit officers for the cadet and senior unit respectively

Barry O' Sullivan is appointed assistant
senior unit officer

Katie O' Riordan is appointed assistant
cadet unit officer of our branch