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Dean of Clogher hands over £6000 to Air Ambulance charity
Dean Kenneth Hall handing over the cheque at Air Ambulance NI base.
Part of the proceeds from the Dean of Clogher’s Christmas sit-out has been presented to one of the charities.
A cheque for £6,000 was presented to Mr. George Irvine, for Air Ambulance Northern Ireland, at the morning service on 22nd January in St. Macartin’s Cathedral, Enniskillen.
Dean Kenneth Hall and local volunteers from the Fermanagh area had visited the Air Ambulance base near Lisburn on the day before to see the work of the charity which operates in partnership with the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service to provide helicopter emergency support in serious and life threatening situations across the Province.
The service costs around £5,500 per day to run and the crew of the helicopter comprises a pilot, doctor and paramedic 12 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Dean Hall raised £18,000 from his Christmas sit-out at the gates of the Cathedral for three charities.