Carrigaline Lions Club

Carrigaline & District Lions Club will hold their annual dinner in the Carrigaline Court Hotel on the 23rd of November.

Outgoing President Donal Browning congratulates Pat O’Sullivan as this year’s Carrigaline Lions Club President at a recent Lions Meeting held in the Carrigaline Court Hotel. The meetning was followed by the annual summer barbeque, held in the Moonduster Inn, Crosshaven. (Picture: Howard Crowdy)

Members of Carrigaline & District Lions Club photographed at the signing of contracts for the Housing for the Elderly project at Carrigaline, Co.Cork. Included are Leo West Chairman Housing Project, Cllr. John O’Shea Outgoing Mayor of Cork County, Donal Browning President and Mary O’Halloran DOS South Cork City. Back Row – Colm O’Rourke, Kieran Barry (Engineer), Jean Lynch Carrigaline Senior Citizens, Dave O’Callaghan (Builder) and Michael Lucey (Quantity Surveyor). Photo Billy macGill

During a recent visit to Carrigaline, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern was presented with the bannerette of the Carrigaline & District Lions Club by President Donal Browning.

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Members of the Carrigaline Lions Club visited the Herne Lions Club in Germany from the 12th to the 14th of May. These two clubs are twinned with each other and this was the third visit by Carrigaline members to Herne. The Carrigaline guests received a very warm welcome and experienced tremendous hospitality from their German hosts. The visit included trips to the German mining museum and the famous city of Munster Continue Reading »

On Thursday 10th May, Carrigaline Lions Club held their annual Golf Classic in Monkstown Golf Club sponsored by Castlelands Construction. Pictured at the prizegiving to the winning team are Bernard Cronin – Captain of Monkstown GC, Donal Browning – Lions Club President, Mick Maguire, Keith Looney, Denis Harrington and Sean Nevin – Chairman of the Golf Classic Committee. Continue Reading »

The Lord Mayor Cllr. Michael Ahern presenting a cheque for €12,000 to Colm O’Rourke on behalf of Housing for the Elderly Fund, part of the proceeds of the Carrigaline & District annual charity cycle run. Also included are Fr. Bertie O’Mahony PP Carrigaline and Donal Browning President. Photo Billy macGill

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Members of Carrigaline & District Lions Club photographed with a cheque for €42,000 – the proceeds of their annual Charity Cycle, at the presentation of cheques to various local charities with the Lord Mayor Cllr. Michael Ahern at a reception held recently at Beamish & Crawford. Included are Donal Browning President, Pat O’Leary, James O’Sullivan, Mark Ginn and Lord Mayor Cllr. Michael Ahern.  Photo Billy macGill

Newly crowned Rose of Carrigdhoun, Ciara Walton (Centre), pictured with runners up Una Brennan and Michelle Diggins at the Carrigdhoun Rose of Tralee Selection Night at Carrigaline Court Hotel. The event is organised by the Carrigaline & District Lions Club and is strongly supported by the local community. (Picture: Adrian O’Herlihy)

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In April 2007, the town of Carrigaline achieved what is known as ‘Heartsafe’ status from the Irish Heart Foundation. This means that people in Carrigaline are never more than eight minutes away from an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) and a person trained in CPR.

Mr. Dónal Browning, President of the Carrigaline Lions Club at the time, thanked the Minister for attending the event and showing his support, before he said: “This programme was implemented through the partnership of the Carrigaline Lions Club, Pfizer and the Irish Heart Foundation, and we are particularly grateful to Pfizer for showing this community such a caring commitment. The Lions club has been serving Carrigaline since 1988 and we were honoured that Pfizer approached us as liaisons to the community. I can ensure that our commitment to the Heartsafe programme will continue in the future and I would like to extend particular thanks to Conor Phelan and the sub-committee of the Lions Club that made this possible.”

Nearly four hundred people were accredited and recognised for showing commitment that will help make their community one of the safest in Ireland in terms of cardiac arrest. Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Mr. Micheal Martín TD attended the event in the Carrigaline Court hotel and he praised the citizens of Carrigaline for the care they have shown each other.

Carrigaline is a community of more than 15,000 people and in order to make a town of this size Heartsafe, 300 local people undertook CPR training with a further 92 taking training in the use of AEDs. This is backed up by the strategic placement of ten AEDs around the community and this does not include defibrillators already present in some GP surgeries.