Cairde App: The community text alert scheme promoting safety

The Cairde App was established as a text alert scheme, enabling people to feel safer and become more connected. 

Brought by Muintir Na Tíre, the text alert scheme enables communities to set up a group and receive text alerts advising them of suspicious or criminal activity in their area. The app also ensures awareness among users of the service and it can also lead to them reporting suspicious activity to gardaí. 

The app has an emergency button feature, which when pressed will reveal the users exact location and alert all necessary parties such as the emergency services, friends and family members. 

A meeting was held last night at the Station House Hotel in Letterkenny for the coordinators of the various text alert schemes from the Letterkenny District. Superintendent Goretti Sheridan, Councillor Patrick Mcgowan, Mr Niall Garvey (CEO of Muintir Na Tíre) and members of An Garda Síochána were all in attendance. 

The group is in the process of trying to rejuvenate the scheme within the District as it has not been active for a while due to various reasons. Mr Niall Garvey gave a presentation in relation to the ‘Cairde app’ that is in use by many text alert groups in the country and that is now an option that is to be explored by our groups locally. 

“We would like to thank everybody who braved the weather conditions last night in order to attend the meeting,” Mr Niall Garvey, CEO of Muintir Na Tíre said.

“We are very hopeful that we can get the text alert scheme within the Letterkenny District back up and running soon as it is of great benefit to gardaí and also to the local community.”

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A further meeting will be held in the near future and details of the same will be circulated to each group.