Meath Civil Defence – Trauma team

“Ronan and Dylan Smyth are current active members of Civil Defence in Ireland with more than 15+ years of experience in the organisation between the two of them. They have competed four times in the Trauma Challenge run by the ROI and it is their first time competing in the World Rescue Challenge.” 

Carlow Order of Malta Ambulance Corps (OMAC)

The Order of Malta is one of Ireland’s largest voluntary organisations, we make a positive contribution to hundreds of local communities in Ireland. With nearly 4,000 members volunteering their time to provide first-aid medical services at national and local community events, training in life-saving skills and delivering community care initiatives, we continue to save, touch and change thousands of lives across all our charitable works.

The Carlow unit has about 60 members and in the WRO team we have three of the management team Terry Kerschbaum (Officer in Charge); John Lally (Team Captain and Unit Training Officer) and Ben Millar (Unit Duty Officer). This is the units first year to enter the ROI competition and were a little shocked to have done so well in their first attempt. When an opportunity arose to participate in the world championships it was grabbed with both hands. All OMAC members are volunteers who give up their time freely to provide medical cover and most of our members do not work professionally as EMS providers. On our team we have an IT Manager, a Private Ambulance EMT and a college Student. All our team are nationally registered Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT's) who are really looking forward to participating in this event and excited to be representing EMS volunteers from Ireland.

Sgt. John Lally NQEMT - EMT 

Training Officer, Carlow

MEATH  County FRS Extrication Team