Councillors call for Monasterevin school site to be converted into housing for older people
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Kildare County Council has agreed to write to the Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin to suggest that St Paul’s Secondary School be converted into housing for older people when it is vacated.
Pupils from the school in the heart of the town are relocating to a new school premises in the grounds of Moore Abbey.
Cllr Noel Connolly had called on the Council to make contact with the Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin to explore the provision of housing for older people on the current site of St Paul’s School in Monasterevin, which is due to be vacated within the next two years.
The story behind Regis Nedlands shocking failures to meet basic aged care standards
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Dik, Brian and Vera s families paid top dollar for them to live at a lovely nursing home, but damning reports from the aged care regulator and allegations by a group of trainee nurses tell another story.
WARNING: THIS STORY CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES
It was two days before Christmas last year when Lea Hammond received a call from her father s nursing home in Perth saying an ambulance was taking him to hospital. There was a heatwave that day, with temperatures reaching 40 degrees Celsius.
Catherine Norah Egan, pictured far right, with friends, circa early 1940s. Catherine Norah Egan, pictured far right, with friends, circa early 1940s.
Catherine Norah “Norrie” Egan
My mother, Norrie Egan, born in Dublin, graduated from St. Vincent’s Hospital/UCD with a Diploma in Radiography in 1940 and worked at St. Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, London during WWII. She was injured during an air raid – not from a bomb – she was cycling her bicycle to work when she was hit by a cab. Though it was wartime, she loved her job and being in London. She had many stories about the war, one being that because she spoke French, she was sent to meet the injured soldiers, French and English, who were brought to England after the Battle of Dunkirk. Another story was of working with St. Mary’s alumnus Sir Alexander Fleming who won the Nobel Prize in 1945 for his discovery of penicillin. He was conducting a trial using penicillin on returning army vets who h
Kildare school places issue a ticking time bomb, public meeting hears
South Kildare school situation an emergency
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Demand for school enrollments in Kildare could be a “ticking time bomb,” a county councillor has told a public meeting which heard of major concerns over school places in the county.
Cllr Angela Feeney was speaking on a request by a number of councillors for information on school capacity at Kildare County Council’s plenary meeting on January 25.
Cllr Feeney said 27% of the population of north Kildare was under 18 and school places needed to be built for all the new and planned housing.