A PRIMARY school delivered Christmas hampers to Great Western Hospital to say thank you to staff for their hard work. Croft Primary School raised almost £1,000 to buy food and gifts to make a hamper for doctors and nurses at the hospital and at Quarry Mount are Home. Head teacher Elaine Murphy said: “We wanted to give back to the frontline workers for all they have done. We collected donations from our families and bought some gifts to make some hampers. “GWH was chosen for the care they’ve given out including some of our families during this troubling time and one of care homes in Old Town.
Covid-19 has required people and organisations across the world to embrace digital faster than ever.
Cork City Council have had a ‘Digital Media Officer’ since December 2019, now the Local Authority has unveiled an ambitious 62-page ‘Digital Strategy’
An online citizen services portal, smart energy home testbed and extension of Cork city’s free public Wi-Fi offering are all actions contained in Cork city’s first digital strategy. Published today, 17th December 2020, Cork city’s digital strategy aspires to support citizens and businesses to realise the benefits of digitalisation.
Co-created with city stakeholders, this collaborative strategy aims to make Cork the connected city – innovative, inclusive, and inspiring. This vision will be delivered through a roadmap of digital actions across 7 dimensions which take a holistic approach in developing a more digitally enabled city. The dimensions include Citizen Participation, Support Services, Digital Skills, Open Data
The Mercy University Hospital
Foundation has announced that it is on course to fundraise over €2.8million in 2020, which is the largest amount raised by the Foundation in a year since it was set up back in 2007. A significant part of the money raised is in direct response to the Foundation’s
Covid-19 appeal, supporting front-line staff in the Mercy University Hospital. The Foundation is now appealing for donations for its Cancer Care Centre, which will be located at nearby 9 Dyke Parade – which is a Georgian terrace building.
Commenting on the news, Chairman of the Board, Eoin Tobin said:
“Like many sectors, charities have faced a tough year. That is why we are so incredibly grateful to our amazing donors who have responded to our Covid-19 appeal, helping us raise much-needed funds to support the amazing work of the Mercy University Hospital. For the last nine months, staff at the Mercy University Hospital have been working at the front-line of the Covid-19 crisis. We w
So far, so straight-forward really. I started on the IVF journey in 2003, Elaine says. Everything looked beautiful at first. I had loads of eggs, they fertilised great, everything was going really well. But for some reason, I was just not getting pregnant.
After the first bout of IVF, Elaine had something called hyper stimulation; meaning, I produced so many eggs that my immune system went into overdrive. All sorts of things can happen then. At one point I was in hospital for weeks with a bowel blockage and a suspected infection. I recovered. Certainly for some people, that would have been the end of trying IVF. But not for me. Elaine and Brian continued to try, and try. The subsequent IVF treatments were unsuccessful but uneventful .
The Songstress presents the 2020 Christmas Jingle
Pic; Brian Lougheed
The Christmas Jingle Concert will return this year and move online. Big names such as
Mick Flannery will join the jam-packed festive line-up for the hugely popular concert. All proceeds from the concert will go to Enable Ireland. The concert will not only stream to people’s homes it will also be played in care homes and hospitals across Cork this year.
This is the fourth year of the very popular The Christmas Jingle and as always it will feature a multitude of top singers and musicians from Cork. The charity concert will be the usual format of live performances of all the classic Christmas songs and they are even keeping their usual raffle with fantastic prizes. This year people all over Cork will be able to sing along from their own homes.