Welcome to SARDA Ireland
Dedicated to the training and deployment of Air Scenting Search and Rescue Dogs, SARDA Ireland’s objective is to assist in the search and rescue of missing persons on the hills or wherever they may be.
SARDA Ireland is a voluntary 999 / 112 emergency search and rescue organisation concerned with the training, assessment and deployment of Air Scenting Search and Rescue Dogs to search for missing persons. Our dog teams, which consist of the handler and their dog, search anywhere in Ireland and are effective in the mountains, woodlands, rural and urban areas, waterways and seashore, as well as in locating accident or disaster victims.
Search And Rescue Dog Association (Ireland) was set up in 1987 as a Registered Charity (No. 11172) and is a member of Mountain Rescue Ireland www.mountainrescue.ie and NSARDA (National Search And Rescue Dog Association) in the UK www.nsarda.org.uk which comprises SARDA organisations in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. For details of our policies and procedures, please click here.
Latest News
🚨CALL OUT🚨
SARDA IRELAND were tasked by Glen of Imaal Mountain Rescue this evening for a missing person in Blackrock Woods. Sean Tolan and Ben were on scene with the Glen team and assisted in the search. Martina O Kearney Flynn was standing by to assist. Thankfully at approx 7:45 the missing person located safe and sound and was checked over by mountain rescue personnel. Well done to everyone involved. Great effort 👏👏
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🌟Meet the team🌟
Name: Jean Ryan
SARDA dogs' name: Trakr
Type of search dog: Air Scenting
How many dog's have you qualified and when? : Trakr qualified April 2022
Other dogs' names : Sky - Husky/ shepherd cross
Where from : Cork
Role in SARDA Ireland: Operational Dog Handler
Call out officer
When did you join: 12/2/2016
Fun fact:
Trakr was donated to me to train for Sarda by Brendan Lawlor and his daughter Kate.
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Hello Trakr 👋 and Jean
Well done 👏
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