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249 Derryfubble Road, Benburb, Dungannon, Tyrone - BT71 7JS

The Cormac Trust

The Cormac Trust are a team of fundraisers, dedicated to battle the causes of Sudden Adult Death Syndrome.
Up until Cormacs passing, there was little or no awareness of SADS as a disease. This has now changed but we have a lot more work to do. Too many young people are, to this day, dying unnecessarily from SADS. We have much work to do in our field to change this.......


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SADS Statistics

Sudden Cardiac Death in the Young

The number of young people who die from these diseases are approximately:

1 every week in Northern Ireland

80 - 100 every year in the Republic of Ireland

12 every week in the UK

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What are we doing about it?

CPR & Defibrillator Training in Schools, Businesses & Sports Clubs

We provide First Aid Training to Schools, Businesses & Sports Clubs across Ireland

Donated & supplied over 300 Defibrillators to Schools,

Businesses & Sports Clubs

Consistently involved in media campaigns to increase awareness of SADS in Young People.


Research in Hospitals & Universities 

The Cormac Trust has provided funding to Queen's University Belfast, Mater Hospital Dublin, and Royal Victoria Hospital Belfast. The Cormac Trust has funded research into nursing for SADS at Ulster University. 


Advice & Counselling
The Cormac Trust is continuing to give advice and guidance on SADS to families, communities and sports clubs on SADS and Screening for SADS

history

The Cormac Trust was set up after the sudden death of Cormac McAnallen in the morning of 2nd March 2004.

Cormac's death came as a shock to people not only in his local area, but also to people all over Ulster and Ireland, as he was a well-known sportsman of exceptional fitness and of ostensibly perfect health.

It was largely due to the death of Cormac, Irish youth rugby international John McCall and other subsequent cases that the Irish public became aware of the issue of sudden cardiac death among young people.

From the time of Cormac's death the McAnallen family was keen to direct public attention to these cardiac conditions that cause such sudden deaths. Hence the family, with the assistance of the Tyrone County Board of the GAA, set up the Cormac Trust. The following are its four objects:

  • To raise awareness of sudden cardiac deaths in young people, and its causes;
  • To promote cardiac screening for young people, especially for athletes;
  • To provide education and information to raise awareness at government level and among other authorities as to the value of providing facilities for the screening of young people;
  • To provide automated external defibrillators (AEDs) for sports clubs in the local region, for the use of the entire local community, and to train people in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and the use of defibrillators.

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