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Woman thanks air ambulance following horrific Killarney crash
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By Sean Moriarty
A Cork woman who was involved in a serious road traffic accident on the Killarney to Tralee road last year says she would not be here today only for the efforts of the Irish Community Air Ambulance.
Emma McGuire from Douglas was travelling to Tralee with a friend on March 8 last year when the accident happened.
She has no recollection of the crash and suffered serious injuries.
The 22-year-old was flown by the Irish Community Air Ambulance (ICAA) to Cork University Hospital (CUH) in a critical condition.
Her spleen burst, she had to be resuscitated at the hospital and was given 14 units of blood in total. Emma underwent emergency surgery that night to remove her spleen and the following day had further surgery on her femur and ankle. Emma also underwent surgery at Tallaght University Hospital for a fractured pelvis before returning to CUH. It was June before Emma finally returned home.
Emma said the last thing she remembers before the crash is coming to the roundabout in Killarney. Her next memory is waking up in hospital more than 24 hours later.
“I’m so grateful to them, I’m so lucky that there was something or someone looking out for me that day,” she said.
In the first three months of this year the Irish Community Air Ambulance was tasked with 29 different incidents in Kerry.
The Irish Community Air Ambulance, formerly Irish Community Rapid Response, based in Rathcoole in County Cork, works in tandem with the National Ambulance Service (NAS) to provide both paramedic support and transport to hospital for seriously ill patients.
It does not receive any Government funding and relies totally on donations and charity efforts from members of the public.
Two young local girls showed great business initiative on Saturday ahead of the Kerry v Donegal match at Fitzgerald Stadium.
Erin McSweeney and Jessie Doolin set up a sweet stall outside a house on Lewis Road, catching the thousands of football fans walking towards the grounds.
The enterprising pair did a busy trade selling soft drinks, sweets, and chocolates to the passing crowds before throw-in.
Their match-day venture also caught the attention of the national sports media, with a photograph of the girls at their stall captured by Sportsfile photographer Stephen McCarthy ahead of the game.
Noel O’Neill has claimed first place in the Unrestricted category of the latest Killarney Camera Club competition, which focused on the theme of the ‘Kerry Landscape’.
His winning photograph, titled ‘Conor Pass Lake and the Three Sisters’, features a detailed study of Mullaghveal located beneath the Conor Pass.
The image captures the wide sweep of the valley, utilizing an elevated viewpoint that allows the glacial landscape to unfold toward the Atlantic horizon. The composition highlights the quiet lakes in the foreground against the dark, rocky slopes of the valley, with the distant outline of the Three Sisters adding further depth and scale to the scene.
The judges praised the photograph as an outstanding example of landscape work, noting its effective balance of composition, light, and perspective to capture the vastness of the West Kerry terrain.
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