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IFESA Official Newsletter - Summer 2014

IFESA is committed to delivering an ever improving service to our Members

Dear Colleagues,

Please CLICK HERE to view/download our new Official Newsletter. IFESA is committed to delivering an ever improving service to our Members.

It is the intention of IFESA to ensure that our Members are kept informed on National issues as well to reinforce local structures going forward.

IFESA will be relaunching itself this autumn under the strategic guidance of our Officer Board. We are a Member driven organisation and we encourage all our Members to interact with us and to become more involved. Members can at any time contact head office on 045/852300 or e-mail This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

IFESA is a Union for Firefighters run by Firefighters. We have the best interests of our Members at heart. IFESA will assist, protect and support its Members.

We wish to take this opportunity to thank all our Members Nationwide for their continued support through difficult times. We want each and every individual Member to know that you very are important to us.

Yours sincerely,

IFESA Officer Board.

PROTECTION OF FIRE AND EMERGENCY SERVICES MUST BE PRIORITY ISSUE IN LOCAL ELECTIONS

The Irish Fire and Emergency Services Association said today (Friday, 11 th April) that the forthcoming local elections will be extremely important for the protection of local fire and emergency services into the future.

Speaking at the Annual Delegate Conference of IFESA in Tullow, Co Carlow today National Chairman John Kidd said local election candidates will have to clearly set out their policies for the future of local fire and emergency services which are under threat from cutbacks and rationalisation like never before.

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Petition - Save Dublin's Ambulance

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NATIONAL FIRE BASED EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE KEY TO ADDRESSING AMBULANCE SERVICE CRISIS SAYS IFESA

The Irish Fire and Emergency Services Association (IFESA) said  today  (Friday, March 28 th  ) that  the development of integrated fire based Emergency Medical Services (EMS) on a national basis is now more urgent that ever in the light of the crisis in the National Ambulance Service  (NAS) exposed in the RTE  Primetime Investigates programme broadcast last night.

IFESA National Chairman, John Kidd said the litany of failures and mismanagement of the NAS shown in the programme cannot be addressed adequately under the present NAS  management structures. 

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DFB - Irish Times Video

Video by the Irish Times on Dublin Fire Brigade Ambulance service and what Fire Fighter paramedics do in Fire Based System in Dublin.

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