CRY Cardiac Risk in the Young

dreamers75

http://www.stpatsfc.com/news.php?id=4693

LOI PLAYERS TOG OUT FOR CRY
Following on from the collapse of Bolton footballer Fabrice Muamba from cardiac arrest on the field last week, LOI players will warm up for their matches in CRY t-shirts to raise awareness for CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young) next weekend.

Last September John Doyle, (27) from Inchicore, collapsed on the pitch while playing in the Leinster League with St Patrick’s Athletic FC. At the time he had no idea that he had a heart condition. He was revived by defibrillator and brought to Tallaght Hospital becoming a patient at the Centre for Cardiac Risk in the Young funded by the charity CRY. Doyle has decided to run an awareness and fundraising weekend for the charity by encouraging League of Ireland players to warm up wearing a CRY t-shirt this weekend while he and other volunteers collect funds for the charity in the stands at the games.

Eight matches will take place on the last weekend of March. Bohemians, St. Patrick’s Athletic, Sligo Rovers, Dundalk, Cork City, Bray, Drogheda, Derry, Wexford, Mervue, Shelbourne, Monathan and UCD have all agreed to wear the t-shirts before their matches.

St Patrick’s Athletic players Ger O’Brien and Conor Kenna have gotten behind John to support the weekend. Ger O’Brien underwent a minor procedure to correct a valve problem he had in his heart after screening, making the cause extra important to him.

Ger said, “On Saturday evening I got a text from Brendan Clarke asking me did I see what had happened to Fabrice Muamba. I was away from the TV so obviously I hadn't. My first reaction was to go on twitter to try to find out what was going on. Going over the timeline I started to realise how serious this was. Like most I was glued to the TV and twitter waiting for some news. First news came in that he was stable then a statement revealed he was critically ill. It looked as if sudden adult death syndrome was about to rear its ugly head again.”

Conor Kenna said, “I am delighted to be able to get involved with raising awareness for CRY. It has been highlighted in the news lately between football and Gaelic but this can happen to anybody across all sports, with a lot of cases not making the news. It is important to make people aware to limit the affect it has on families. I know, first hand that the screenings and care are top class as I am currently attending due to a cardiac issue which was discovered when the FAI brought screening in a few years ago.”

John Doyle, organiser of the awareness weekend said, “I was playing for St Patrick's Athletic FC in the Leinster senior league when I collapsed last September. Our game was roughly 15 minutes in when I started to struggle breathing, I started to feel dizzy and I couldn't see properly. I got to my hunkers and signalled to the sideline of my problem and the next thing I remember is being wheeled into a ward in Tallaght hospital later that evening. It started of as a normal Sunday morning preparing for a game, having a laugh with team-mates and doing a warm up. What happened next changed my life forever.

I had never heard of the CRY unit prior to my stay in hospital but I feel I owe my life to this amazing cardiac team. On Paddy's day gone I was watching the Bolton game at home, I got a call to go to see my mother. While in my mothers I got a Facebook mail from a friend to say that Fabrice Muamba had collapsed. I immediately put on sky sports news to realise the horror of what happened. I returned home to continue watching breaking news. As a Bolton fan myself I was naturally upset but as a victim as well I could feel my heart sink. To be honest I broke down in tears as I feared the worst for the kid. I realised straight away that this was a cardiac arrest. When I heard the news that Fabrice was in fact now stable I managed to show a smile but I still knew that it was all ahead of him. I wish him all the best in his recovery.”

Due to his condition, John can no longer play football which was difficult news to hear. He is still closely linked to football however and has dedicated a large amount of time to raise money for CRY which receives no government funding. He also plans to have a sponsored cycle taking place on exercise bikes in Liffey Valley Shopping Centre and The Square in Tallaght and also will take on a sponsored hike up Croke Patrick with ten friends later this year.

If you would like to support John please go to the CRY website, www.cry.ie, click on DONATE NOW.

Alternatively, there will be volunteers collecting at each of the premier matches next weekend. CRY would like to thank the LOI blog for their support in promoting awareness of the weekend.

Fair play to John Doyle, few LOI fans would know who he is and how lucky he was.

Gavin "shels"

Great idea. Do all LoI sides have defibrillators as a matter of interest? I know Shels do, it was purchased by the SSDG a few seasons back.

Gavin "shels"

Cardiac Risk in the Young









“SO YOUNG.. SO FIT.. SO ACTIVE…” SO SUDDEN

CRY AND THE DRIVE TO BEAT SUDDEN DEATH SYNDROME

CRY in Ireland was founded in March 2002 by parents who had experienced the effects of sudden and unexplained death within their families. We are a self supporting registered charity. We do not receive Government funding of any kind. We are therefore dependent on fundraising activities and private donations to:-

• Raise awareness of cardiac risk in the young through media campaigns and public information meetings
• Support the National Screening Centre where families and individuals at risk can be evaluated
• Provide counselling and support to families affected.

The Centre is based in The Adelaide and Meath Hospital (AMNCH), Tallaght, Dublin 24 and is run by a full-time specialist cardiologist and a specialised team – Clinical Nurse Manager, Cardiac Technicians and Administrative Support staff and provides:-

• Comprehensive Cardiac Screening and evaluation for families who have lost a young person
• Cardiac Screening for a young person who may be experiencing symptoms
• Referral for further treatment if needed
• Referral for Genetic Testing
• The services are free to patient irrespective of financial circumstances or geographic location and CRY is not in receipt of State funding.

YOUR HELP COULD MEAN THE GIFT OF A LIFETIME – THE GIFT

BUCKET COLLECTION WILL BE HELD THROUGHOUT TOLKA PARK

FRIDAY 30 MARCH 2012

during game against St Patrick's Athletic

Email off Shels this evening.

dreamers75

Anyone know why Rovers wouldnt participate in this?


Fair play to all LOI teams to wearing the t shirts last night.

All clubs had it in their programmes or had players tweeting about it.

doncarlos

dreamers75 wrote: »

Anyone know why Rovers wouldnt participate in this?


Fair play to all LOI teams to wearing the t shirts last night.

All clubs had it in their programmes or had players tweeting about it.

Did Rovers really not wear the T-Shirts?


Dundalk are doing this tonight
http://www.dundalkfc.com/dundalk-fc-help-raise-awareness-of-scd

GLaDOS

doncarlos wrote: »

Did Rovers really not wear the T-Shirts?

Don't think so, Bohs came on the pitch wearing a white tshirt over the strip, I assume it was for CRY. Rovers were just wearing their strip.

dreamers75

We got 2 free Defibs from someone, cant remember their name

markc1184

Both Drogheda and Derry had their tshirts on last night during the warm ups. CRY also had a collection at the gates. Surely a defibrillator should be a must at all clubs. Great cause and no problem putting my hand in my pocket to help out any way I could.