St John Ambulance Ireland - Southern Region

23/12/2025

On behalf of St John Ambulance Ireland, I extend Season’s Greetings to all who connected with our Charity throughout 2025—whether as a patient, trainee, partner, or contractor. It is our hope that your engagement with us brought support, learning, and benefit.

Our mottoes, Pro Fide and Pro Utilitate Hominum—For the Faith and In the Service of Humanity—invite us, especially at Christmas, to reflect on how we serve others and how we might continue that service with renewed purpose in 2026.

This season also calls us to remember with gratitude those who left us for their Eternal Reward during the past year. We hold in particular affection the volunteers of St John Ambulance who passed away in 2025. Their dedication, kindness, and service remain a lasting gift to us all.

Wishing you a Merry Christmas 🎄 and a Happy New Year 🥳. May the year ahead be one of peace, hope, and continued service to humanity.

John Hughes KStJ, Commissioner

14/12/2025

A status orange weather warning doesn’t stop Santa, neither does it stop us. Our volunteers were out today providing cover for the annual Santa toy run raising funds and toys for Bernardo’s, the Children’s Leukemia Association and Cork Penny Dinners. Three great local charities supported by another. Thanks to our super volunteers.

13/12/2025

A cold night in Pairc Ui Chaoimh for the Munster v Gloucester rugby game. Working with our friends from Civil Defence. Thanks to all for their time.

07/12/2025

As Christmas gets closer the duties get more seasonal. This weekend our crews were out providing pre hospital care at the newly opened Counting House in Cork and the annual Santa Cycle for our neighbours and friends in Goldbergs Bar. We also covered a night of cage fighting on Saturday night (Santa was not present at this one). Thanks to all our volunteers who gave up so much time again this week serving our community.

30/11/2025

As November ends and the days grow shorter our duty list starts to wind down towards Christmas but our fantastic volunteers are still out there providing care at events. Today we provided ambulance and off road cover at a point to point in Ballindenisk. Thanks to these crews and the crews we had out covering other events today.

02/11/2025

Today our volunteers were out covering matches in Pairc Ui Chaoimh and the food fair in the City Hall. The experienced volunteer will always use the opportunity to rest and prepare for action. It looks like they all had a good day.

19/10/2025

County Final day in Páirc Uí Chaoimh and our gang are out providing care. We are there to look after the crowd and players but enjoying the game is allowed too. Well done to all our volunteers who have given up their time again this weekend.

12/10/2025

Saturday night and our team were providing care at an MMA night in St Finnbarr’s H&F Club in Cork. Our volunteers do more than attend matches. Well done to all our volunteers who provide pre-hospital care wherever crowds gather.

10/10/2025

Some of the team tonight at Virgin Media Park where Munster took on Edinburgh in rugby (and won of course). A great night volunteering at a great venue watching a great team win. This is one of the benefits of giving up your time to follow our motto- Pro Utilitate Hominum, In the service of humanity.

06/09/2025

23/08/2025

Not every event we cover is a sporting one. Today out team were out at Ballygarvan Agricultural Show providing care and of course being entertained by the local wildlife. It looks like a beautiful day for it. Thanks to these and all our volunteers out again this weekend. St John Ambulance Ireland

21/08/2025

Blackpool Shopping Centre was the place to be today. Our volunteers were there to show who we are and what we do when we met our friends from National Ambulance Service (NAS) and Cork First Responder groups who were there demonstrating CPR. Thanks to all those who visited both groups today, remember any CPR beats no CPR. Learn first aid and CPR so some day you might make the difference.