Chief executive of CRITICAL charity, David Tighe, said: “Behind every one of these calls is a person having one of the worst days of their lives and a volunteer responder willing to step forward.

"Paul, the paramedics and the fire crews were like my guardian angels that day"

Balbriggan CFR currently has 16 volunteers made up of Paramedics, Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs), a nurse, First Aid Responders and people with no prior medical background or experience.

CRITICAL, which has volunteer groups across the country, said their responders have been tasked to a range of collisions in the last 14 months, ranging from collisions between cars, cars and pedestrians, and cars and e-scooters

Waterford doctors among the volunteer medics who received the new vehicles