Irish Heart Foundation

And I think the big thing is that... we need 25 to 30 grams of fibre per day.

And the average, measured by the Irish Heart Foundation, the average intake is 12.

So we're miles away from it, Brian.

And it's even worse in

So it was only when they did further investigations they found out that I've got this condition, yeah.

So as I, as I said, uh, uh, you've become the public face of, uh, of this, uh, campaign, the Irish Heart Foundation's Restart a Heart campaign.

What made you decide to, to basically be the face of this campaign?

Just to give something back, to tell people how important it is to have CPR.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah.

So you're, you're supporting the Irish Heart Foundation's Restart a, a Heart Day.

Um, w- what do people need to know, uh, in terms of, of what the Irish Heart Foundation is trying to promote? What...

And you can get access to these through the voluntary agencies.

So the Irish Heart Foundation, St. John Ambulance, the Red Cross.

Community first responder schemes are amazing in terms of the work that they're doing at the moment.

So if anybody wants to check out a website, becomeacfr.ie, there's 361 community first responder schemes up and running across Ireland as it currently stands with over 4,500 volunteers who respond.

... you can do.

I do for the Irish Heart Foundation.

Yeah, you can do stuff online too, where you don't have to-

Which is-

I've asked people like yourselves to support me.

I'm fundraising for the Irish Heart Foundation, a charity that, excuse the pun, is very close to my heart due to my own heart condition.

So I need to get going again.

I need to find that bit of a spark.

I've got to keep training going.

Which is difficult at the moment because now I have a pensioner, of um you know which has stopped training altogether but i've got to keep training because i've publicly made a commitment to this collected money i've asked people like yourselves to support me i'm fundraising for the Irish Heart Foundation a charity that excuse me is very close to my heart due to my my own heart condition So I need to get going again.

And I need to find that bit of a spark.

I need to find a way of enjoying this again.