Killarney's Order of Malta is hosting this year’s All-Ireland first aid competitions today.
Over 30 teams from all over Ireland will be taking part across various competitions, showcasing team and individual skills including cardiac first response, emergency first response and ambulance skills.
For the first time, groups from Poland and Ukraine are also in Killarney to compete in the team tests.
The event gets underway around now and will continue across the day, at the Gleneagle Hotel.
The Order of Malta is a major provider of first-aid services and training, ambulance transport, and community and elderly care services across the whole island of Ireland.
Noel Lucey is the officer-in-charge at the Killarney Order of Malta.
He says that it is wonderful to welcome the international teams among this year's competitor
