Fire Service Trust
Incorporating The Irish Fire Service Preservation Group
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About the Webmaster


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                                            Martin Thompson

Everybody has a hobby with some it’s football, golf  or a combination of sports, while my interest lies in the photographing,history, restoring and showing fire engines. Can you member the first time you  were on holiday or attended your first football match ? Well I can  recall the first time I seen a fire engine .I was about 5 years old my father  was  holding me by the hand to walk two doors up to the house of Jimmy Dunphy who was  a D/M with Athy Fire Brigade. Outside was parked an Austin Fire Engine. That  was the day I caught the BUG. That same fire engine was 4 years old and new to  Athy Fire Brigade, today that Austin fire engine I first saw over 40 years ago  (photo above) forms part of a collection of fire engines cared for by  myself and  my family here in Athy. During my childhood I attended drill nights and  as the fire station had no drill yard, I got to ride from the station to the  drill ground in the Austin. As I got older I joined the A.F.S. and spent my  summer holidays attending fires in the Athy area. In 1998 I acquired my  first appliance a 1976 Dennis ‘R’ again new to Athy, it replaced my Austin when  it was stepped down from first away.  Aquiring my first appliance was only the  start of my troubles, there was no club or organisation in Ireland catering for  appliance owners and no insurance company willing to insure them. So I  asked about 20 people who had appliances or had a great interest in preserving  fire appliances to attend a meeting on 19th January 1999 and on that day in the  front room of our house in Athy, The Irish Fire Service Preservation Group was  formed or better known today as the Fire Service   Trust. Members of the group  attend shows and functions with their appliances helping to preserve our  heritage and raise much needed funds for charity. 

Browse the pages of  this site which will be continually updated. if you  have a photo or an article  you would like to share I will only to glad to post it for you. If you see  something on the site that is not correct please let me know.



 
Gach duine faoi chaitheamh aimsire le roinnt sé  peil,  galf nó cumasc de spóirt, agus Luíonn mo spéis sa grianghrafadh, stair,athchóiriú agus a léiríonn innill dóiteáin. An féidir leat cuimhneamh ar an chéad uair a bhí tú ar saoire, nó d'fhreastail ar do chéad cluiche peile? Bhuel is féidir Is cuimhin liom an chéad uair a chonaic mé an inneall dóiteáin. Raibh mé 5years faoi aois a bhí m'athair liom shealbhú ag an láimh le siúl dhá dhoras suas go dtí an teach na Jimmy Dunphy a bhí ina D / M le Baile Átha Í Briogáid Dóiteáin. Tugadh an locadh Lasmuigh de Fire Innill Austin. Ba é sin an lá Rug mé an FABHT. Go inneall dóiteáin céanna bhí 4 bliain d'aois agus nua chun briogáid dóiteáin Baile Átha Í, inniu go bhfuil inneall dóiteáin  Austin  chonaic mé an chéad uair os cionn 40 bliain ó shin (cuid ghrianghraf thuas)  foirmeacha de bhailiúchán na n-inneall dóiteáin cúram do féin agus mo mhuintir  anseo i mBaile Átha Í. Le linn mo óige fhreastail mé ar oíche druileáil  agus mar atá ar an stáisiún dóiteáin raibh aon clós druileáil, fuair mé a  thiomána as an stáisiún ar an talamh druileáil in Austin. Mar a fuair mé aosta,  chuaigh mé A.F.S. agus chaith sé ag freastal ar mo laethanta saoire an tsamhraidh tinte i gceantar Bhaile Átha Í. I 1998 fuair mé mo chéad fearas a Dennis 1976 'R'again nua go Baile Átha Í, in ionad é nuair a bhí mo Austin Sheas sé síos ar shiúl ón chéad. Mo chéad fearas a Fháil raibh ach an tús  mo trioblóidí; ní raibh aon chlub nó eagraíocht in Éirinn ag freastal ar
úinéirí  fearas agus aon chomhlacht árachais atá sásta iad a árachú. 

Mar sin,  d'iarr mé ar thart ar 20 duine a fearais raibh nó a raibh suim mhór i gcaomhnú  na fearais dóiteáin chun freastal ar chruinniú ar an 19 Eanáir,  1999 agus ar an  lá sin sa seomra os comhair ár dteach i mBaile Átha Í Bunaíodh  an Grúpa um  Caomhnú Seirbhís Dóiteáin Gaeilge nó níos fearr ar a dtugtar inniu  mar an  tSeirbhís Dóiteáin Iontaobhas. Baill den ghrúpa ag freastal ar seónna  agus  feidhmeanna lena n-fearais cuidiú ár n-oidhreacht a chaomhnú agus i gcistí  ag  teastáil go géar a thógáil do charthanacht.

Brabhsáil na leathanaigh an  tsuímh seo a thabhairt cothrom le dáta ar bhonn leanúnach. má tá tú  grianghraf  nó earra ar mhaith leat a roinnt ach beidh mé sásta post sé ar do  shon. Má  fheiceann tú rud éigin ar an suíomh nach bhfuil ceart le do thoil  eolas in 


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          1962 Austin FFK / Griffith J. Roberts, ran out Athy from new to 1976.


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