“We were crying tears of joy,” she said.
Ms Nevin (50), whose 83-year-old mother Joan Byrne has been a resident at Marymount for the past two years, said she came up with the idea after visiting her mother during ‘window visits’ since the start of the pandemic.
“I started thinking ‘wouldn’t it be nice to get people to donate gifts’ (to distribute to nursing home residents at Christmas),” she told the Irish Independent.
She put out the call locally, through social media, and contacted schools in the area to see if the children would make cards or gifts to give to the elderly residents and the response was phenomenal, she said.