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Portobello young professionals fundraise for CRY
20.6.2011
By Enid O’Dowd.
The student, Eamonn O’Coine, had just completed his first year exams at Trinity and was about to go to Calcutta for the summer to work in a school for orphaned girls.
Eamonn’s close friend physiotherapist Shane Power (25) who lives in Portobello still remembers that dreadful day.
‘When he was eleven Eamonn contracted pneumonia and while he was in hospital it was discovered he had hypertrophic cardiomyopathy which is a condition leading to the heart muscle becoming thickened. He was monitored after that but we never expected him to die so suddenly and so young. We became friends at Belvedere College. He was an amazingly talented person, gifted academically – he achieved 600 points in his leaving certificate, he was good at languages and at sport yet he also cared passionately about social justice and was President of the school Vincent de Paul Society which worked in the inner city.’
Shane together with medical intern Anna Finnegan and Declan O’Brien, who works in financial services for Morgan Stanley, also friends of Eamonn and living in Portobello, helped to organise the Heartbeat Ball on May 28 at the new Convention Centre to raise funds for CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young), a charity set up in 2002 by parents and relatives who have experienced sudden and unexplained deaths.
The charity aims to raise awareness about sudden cardiac death, provide counselling and support for the families affected and to fundraise for the Centre for Cardiovascular Risk in younger persons (CRYP) at Tallaght Hospital.
The late Dr Garret Fitzgerald opened the Centre in November 2008. The Centre now has a clinic at St James’ Hospital and hopes to develop a clinic at St Vincent’s University Hospital. There are over 5000 deaths from sudden cardiac arrest every year in Ireland with 15% of these deaths relating to the under 35 age group. The subject has gained a certain profile in recent years with the deaths of sportsmen like Cormac McAnallen from this problem.
Shane points out that ‘CRY receives no government support whatsoever so is entirely reliant on fundraising and on donations from individuals and other charitable organisations. People can donate online at www.cry.ie if they would like to help us.’
The Heartbeat Ball was a great success and raised over €16,000 for CRY.
The student, Eamonn O’Coine, had just completed his first year exams at Trinity and was about to go to Calcutta for the summer to work in a school for orphaned girls.
Eamonn’s close friend physiotherapist Shane Power (25) who lives in Portobello still remembers that dreadful day.
‘When he was eleven Eamonn contracted pneumonia and while he was in hospital it was discovered he had hypertrophic cardiomyopathy which is a condition leading to the heart muscle becoming thickened. He was monitored after that but we never expected him to die so suddenly and so young. We became friends at Belvedere College. He was an amazingly talented person, gifted academically – he achieved 600 points in his leaving certificate, he was good at languages and at sport yet he also cared passionately about social justice and was President of the school Vincent de Paul Society which worked in the inner city.’
Shane together with medical intern Anna Finnegan and Declan O’Brien, who works in financial services for Morgan Stanley, also friends of Eamonn and living in Portobello, helped to organise the Heartbeat Ball on May 28 at the new Convention Centre to raise funds for CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young), a charity set up in 2002 by parents and relatives who have experienced sudden and unexplained deaths.
The charity aims to raise awareness about sudden cardiac death, provide counselling and support for the families affected and to fundraise for the Centre for Cardiovascular Risk in younger persons (CRYP) at Tallaght Hospital.
The late Dr Garret Fitzgerald opened the Centre in November 2008. The Centre now has a clinic at St James’ Hospital and hopes to develop a clinic at St Vincent’s University Hospital. There are over 5000 deaths from sudden cardiac arrest every year in Ireland with 15% of these deaths relating to the under 35 age group. The subject has gained a certain profile in recent years with the deaths of sportsmen like Cormac McAnallen from this problem.
Shane points out that ‘CRY receives no government support whatsoever so is entirely reliant on fundraising and on donations from individuals and other charitable organisations. People can donate online at www.cry.ie if they would like to help us.’
The Heartbeat Ball was a great success and raised over €16,000 for CRY.