Each year, approximately 7,500 people in Ireland have a stroke and around 2,000 die – more deaths than breast cancer, prostate cancer and bowel cancer combined.  

An estimated 60,000 people are living in the community with disabilities as a result of a stroke, though the likely figure is higher. This makes stroke the biggest cause of acquired disability.

The Irish Heart Foundation is dedicated to reducing the rate of death and severe disability from stroke and we regularly lobby the government in relation to this aim.