Details of the 3rd annual McQuillan Cup were announced recently.

The tournament is a memorial to Peadar McQuillan who died suddenly playing soccer on the 19th July 2007, aged 34. Peadar was a suspected victim of the cardiac condition ‘Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome’ (SADS). The tournament organised by family and friends of Peadar. Funds raised are in aid of the Centre for Cardiovascular Risk in Young Persons (CCRYP) at the Adeliade and Meath National Children’s Hospital, Tallaght. Two defibrillators (AEDs) are being donated to UCD also for their out-door sports facility. Donations can be made online at http://www.mycharity.ie/event/mcquillancup/ or to the ‘Peadar McQuillan Memorial Fund’, a/c no: 77577270 sort code: 900754 or by following the ‘make a donation link’ on www.mcquillancup.comTeams are now invited to enter for this year’s 5-a-side soccer tournament. Teams are comprised of 8 members, 5 active players with 3 rolling subs. Places will be limited to 32 teams. Entry fee €80 per team. This is to cover FAI referees who officiate on the day and also St John’s Ambulance who are present throughout the tournament.

When: 19th September 2009, 10:00 – 17:00hr Where: UCD How to register: teams@mcquillancup.com Further details: www.mcquillancup.com (contd.) Notes to Editor Peadar McQuillan Peadar collapsed and died suddenly whilst playing five-a-side football on 19th July 2007 at just 34 years of age, a suspected victim of Sudden Death Arrhythmic Syndrome. Originally from Clones, Co. Monaghan, Peadar was an architect with a professional practice in Dublin. He is survived by his wife and three young children.Sudden Cardiac Death Syndrome (SCDS) / Sudden Death Arrhythmic Syndrome (SADS)

Sudden Cardiac Death Syndrome (SCDS) is an umbrella term used for the many different causes of cardiac arrest in young people. The most common causes include the thickening of the heart muscle and irregularities of the electrical impulses that control the natural rhythm of the heart. Every year over 150 ‘apparently’ fit and healthy young people die in Ireland from undiagnosed heart conditions. Sudden Cardiac Death is a dramatic and/or spontaneous death that is thought to be (and usually is) caused by a heart condition and may have been brought on by exercise.In one in every twenty cases of sudden cardiac death, no definite cause of death can be found, even after an expert cardiac pathologist has examined the heart. This is called Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome. (In the past it has also been called Sudden Adult Death Syndrome or Sudden Death Syndrome but, because it affects children too, the term Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome is now used.)

Centre for Cardiovascular Risk in Young Persons (CCRYP)The Centre for Cardiovascular Risk in Younger Persons (CCRYP) at the Adelaide and Meath National Children’s Hospital (AMNCH), Tallaght is a collaboration between CRY, the charity that raises awareness of cardiac arrest in the young (www.cry.ie) and Tallaght Hospital.