{"id":587212,"date":"2026-08-08T17:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/587212\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T17:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:20:09","slug":"mayo-players-to-present-cheque-in-memory-of-boy-who-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/587212\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayo players to present cheque in memory of boy who died"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two of Mayo’s All-Ireland football winners will lend their support to a local initiative in their neighbourhood this weekend.<\/p>\n

Eoin McGreal and Enda Hession from Garrymore Club in south Mayo, will present a cheque for \u20ac22,000 to Hollymount Community First Responders Group.<\/p>\n

The money has been raised in the memory of teenager Caylum Flynn, who died in a tragic accident in 2022.<\/p>\n

An inquest into his death heard how he had been working on a go-kart when he got caught in a haulage strap.<\/p>\n

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\nAll-Ireland winners Eoin McGreal and Enda Hession play with Garrymore in south Mayo<\/p>\n

Darren Forde is the co-ordinator of the group in his local community and the man who installed the first life-saving defibrillators on Croagh Patrick.<\/p>\n

The founder of Eco Powered Cabinets has also developed a medical kit to improve emergency response to severe allergic reactions.<\/p>\n

“We are so thankful to Enda and Eoin and all of the volunteers who got involved with Caylum’s Fundraiser.<\/p>\n

“The two lads are both neighbours and both Garrymore clubmen. And as Marty Morrissey said, ‘there’s no school, shop or pub in Garrymore, but by hell they produced two All-Ireland winning footballers’.<\/p>\n

“They are great fellas and big supporters of what we’re doing for the local community.”<\/p>\n

Mr Forde said they cover an area of over 10 kilometres taking in Hollymount, Claremorris, Ballinrobe, Kilmaine, Carnacon and Kilconnolly.<\/p>\n

“There is now a specially trained team of eight Community CFR volunteers, including 999 Emergency Text Response Nurses and Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT),” he said.<\/p>\n

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\nDarren Forde installing three defibrillators on Croagh Patrick in 2022<\/p>\n

“They each receive a text at the same time ambulances receive the local emergency call. We are at 90% of calls in under eight minutes to provide lifesaving support.”<\/p>\n

The money from Caylum’s fundraiser will be used for the upkeep of current defibrillators and the replacement of some of the older ones.<\/p>\n

The group have 20 defibrillators and cabinets, each costing around \u20ac1,600.<\/p>\n

The Hollymount CFR has also purchased personal pocket defibrillators bearing Caylum\u2019s name.<\/p>\n

An AED is an Automated External Defibrillator, a portable electronic device used to check a person\u2019s heart rhythm and gives an electric shock to restart a normal heartbeat during sudden cardiac arrest.<\/p>\n

Caylum, from Seefin, Scardaune in south Mayo was a talented Gaelic footballer and his family said he would have been so proud of Mayo’s All-Ireland success and his local heroes Enda and Eoin.<\/p>\n

The players will present the cheque at Kelly’s (formerly Tierney’s) of Foxhall tomorrow afternoon.<\/p>\n

Twelve newly trained first responders will also be presented with their CPR certificate.<\/p>\n

Reliable sources say the Sam Maguire Cup may be brought along for the occasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two of Mayo’s All-Ireland football winners will lend their support to a local initiative in their neighbourhood this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-587212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}