An Cosantóir

An Cosantóir April 2018 www.dfmagazine.ie 14 | On March 6th troops from 7 Inf Bn dug this lovely lady and her brother out of their snowed-in house in Round- wood and discovered that it was her 100th birthday the next day. Lt Richard O'Hagan said: "It was great to have the opportunity to meet Ms Doyle on the eve of her 100th birthday. As we were working in the same area the following day we decided we would call back with a card and a cake to help her celebrate the big occasion." Photo: Sgt (AR) Hazel Brennan, 7 Inf Bn Pictured are Sgt Alan Graham, Sgt Ollie McNa- mee, Cpl Eddie Donlon and comrades from 2 Bde Arty Regt deliver Meals on Wheels. "The Defence Forces wherever they are needed is where they are." Photo: Retired RSM noel o'Callaghan, 2 BAR "outstanding work by Capt Sean Gough and Sgt Brian Buckley, Recce Pl, SP Coy, 7 Inf Bn, who conducted an insertion march from Brittas into Kilbride Camp to conduct a relief-in-place with duty personnel and to resupply local residents with much needed food supplies." – Coy Sgt Gerry Duff, 7 Inf Bn "Thank you to the Irish Defence Forces, ESB, local farmers and great communities through- out Ireland, for helping to clear roads, and reconnect power and water in areas iso- lated by snow. This is a photo taken in Carrigaline, Co Cork, on Saturday 3rd March, of a Defence Forces 6x6 leading an ESB truck out to Minane Bridge, novohol and Roberts' Cove area." - Grainne Lynch PMP CMILT, Pharma Supply Chain Logistics, VP Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT). Photo: Caroline James Pictured are Cpl Steve Holloway, Logan Shepard (7), and Advanced Paramedic Declan Cunningham of the National Ambulance Service, based out of Wex- ford General Hospital. Logan needs medical machinery 24/7 and when Storm Emma cut the electricity near his home in Cleariestown, Co Wexford, he had to be dashed to hospital. In the middle of one the worst snowfalls in living memory in Wexford, Steve and De- clan were tasked with attending to this extremely sick child whose home was inaccessible by road. They trekked almost 3km through snowdrifts to tend to Logan and then brought him back on foot to the waiting military ambulance. Pte Anthony Arm- strong from 1 Bde Tpt Coy and Gnr Ger Twomey from 1 BAR pictured with Tracy Quirke and her baby Ella, born at 10.30am on 2nd March 2018, in the middle of the weather crisis. "They are angels living on Earth, as far as I'm concerned," Tracy's mother, Jacky Quirke, told the Irish Examiner. Tracy went into labour a week early at 2.30am at the home she shares with partner Darren Galvin on the Old Head of Kinsale, Co Cork. Although the peninsula was cut off by snow drifts up to 6ft deep, Pte Armstrong and Gnr Twomey managed to collect Tracy in their 6x6 truck and transport her to Cork University Maternity Hospital. Earlier family and neighbours had spent 3hrs clearing a 4km path from the house to Barrell's Cross. Photo: Irish Examiner Sgt Joanne Doyle Rooney, CMU DFTC, pictured with HSE members deploying to rescue a patient stuck in a remote area of Co Kildare. Troops from the DFTC also transported essential nursing staff to a local nursing home in 4x4 ve- hicles and provided a snowplough to Kildare County Council for use in Newbridge, Athgarvan, Kilcullen and the Curragh. Photo: Cpl Paul Burke, CMu 2 Bde

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