Heart Failure Programme Manager News Today

A Lusk man battling a serious heart condition and who also contracted COVID-19, has urged other heart failure patients to embrace new supports set up by the Irish Heart Foundation. Tom Corr was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy in 2009, a disease of the heart muscle which means it pumps only 20% of the blood that it should, and with atrial fibrillation - irregular heartbeat - in 2016. The 58-year-old married father-of-one, who also experienced two strokes in 2017 and has been fitted with a pacemak...

The Irish Heart Foundation is urging the estimated 2,700 people living with heart failure in Louth to engage with new supports it has established during Covid-19 restrictions. With almost 300 new cases every year in Louth, the Foundations new support service will help thousands of people nationwide to live normal, full and active lives with their condition. It has launched a range of supports, including online groups and a podcast presented by retired RTE presenter Michael Lyster, who has exper...

elaine@TheCork.ie The Irish Heart Foundation is urging the estimated 10,000 people living with heart failure in Cork to engage with new supports it has established during Covid-19 restrictions. The charity has responded to a sense of isolation felt by people living with heart failure, a condition which has a lower survival rate than many cancers. Heart failure or heart inefficiency occurs when the organ is not working as well as it should and does not pump blood around the body efficiently. Wit...

The Irish Heart Foundation is urging the estimated 1,800 people living with heart failure in Kilkenny to engage with new supports it has established during Covi...