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Limerick-based company donates €25k to new children s grief centre
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Grainne Murphy, Analog Devices (centre) with Katrina Morgan and Sr Helen Culhane, of Children’s Grief Centre );
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PLANS to create a €3.5m Children’s Grief Centre have received a welcome boost in these Covid times with a grant of €25,000 from the Analog Devices Foundation.
The new centre will be needed more than ever in years to come as the consequences of Coronavirus and all the restrictions around death come to the fore.
Its current location in Westbourne has been operating for 12 years. It provides a free support service for families with children and young people affected by loss. There is a shortage of this kind of early intervention service in the Mid-West area and the new centre will double the capacity of support currently being provided.
In the beginning, she would be surprised to find herself sitting at the kitchen table with a friend having a giggle at something. âThe joy does come once the fog lifts. And youâd hear yourself laughing, and youâd think, am I able to laugh again? It does get easier. Catastrophic loss, too, teaches you that you have to treasure what you have.â
Raising their two, active, sport-mad boys â their sons, Tony and Dan, are now nearly 16 and 13 â without Anthony has been one of the most difficult parts of parenting alone. âI had a very hands-on husband. He loved bringing them to training, doing everything with them. Decisions were made by the two of us. When he died, all of a sudden, Iâm the top of the food chain, and thatâs a little bit terrifying.â But again, their families rallied. âAnthonyâs father would be very hands on.â
I read Charlie Weston’s piece on a decade of surging house prices (‘Ireland has EU’s highest housing cost after 10 years of surging prices,’ Irish Independent, December 11) beside Caroline O’Doherty, who wrote of the “love affair with detached homes” (‘Detached homes still dominate the property choices for homeowners,’ Irish Independent, December 11). My conclusion is Irish people will pay over the odds to own their home and garden, differing from the rest of Europe.
I then read John Connell’s piece on RTÉ’s
The Hunger (‘The quietness arising from the skeletons around the table still pervades our land,’