Post Tagged with: "Kerry Hospice Foundation"

THERE’S just over a week to go until people take to the roads around the county for the annual Good Friday Walks in aid of the Kerry Hospice Foundation. There are over 2o walks taking place and Kerry Hospice Ambassador Deirdre Walsh officially launched the walks last week on the […]

A CASTLEGREGORY teenager presented a cheque for €1,400 to the Kerry Hospice this week after a fundraiser earlier this month. Transition Year student at Mean Scoil An Leith Truigh, Katie Crean (15), grew her hair over the last three years knowing that she would eventually donate it to charity. Earlier this […]

IT’S not long now until one of the biggest fundraisers of the year for Kerry Hospice takes place. The annual coffee morning, sponsored by Bewleys, will be held at homes, pubs, clubs, hotels and businesses all over the county on Thursday, September 21. The Bewleys Big Coffee Morning Social For […]

THE HSE has launched an evaluation report of the Kerry Specialist Palliative Care Service (KSPCS) which highlights the importance of strong local leadership, consistent community support and adherence to national best practice, as factors in the service’s success. Future plans under discussion for the service include five additional beds at […]

THE annual AGM of the Kerry Hospice Foundation took place last night with representatives from the branches all over the county present. Officers were elected for the coming year. The fundraising commitee for 2023 is as follows: Chairperson Jack Shanahan; Vice Chairperson Jenny Tarrant; Secretary Mary Shanahan; Treasurer Eileen Sheehy; […]

THE Kerry Hospice Foundation has launched its annual Christmas cards campaign. The cards were launched by former Irish Rugby captain Ciara Griffin at The Meadowlands Hotel on Sunday. Once again the chief sponsors are Kerry Group who were represented at the launch by Tony Bergin. The cards are always a huge […]

TOGETHER For Hospice – The National Hospice Movement’s annual coffee morning  sponsored by Bewleys takes place in locations in Kerry and indeed all around the country on Thursday September 22. This week some of the former Rose of Tralee winners took time out to give their support to the coffee […]

THE annual Kerry Hospice Foundation Good Friday walks will take place right around the county on April 15. In total there are 22 walks taking place from Ballinskelligs to Ballybunion and everywhere in between. The walks have been hugely supported over the years but the get-togethers could not take place […]

A FANTASTIC event held last year to remember a much loved Tralee man raised over €21,000 for the Kerry Hospice Foundation. The Hawley O’Sullivan Memorial Truck Run was organised by Hawley’s niece, Karen Maher Hayles and saw over 100 trucks take part in the event back in October. Hawley O’Sullivan, from […]

THE Bon Secours made donations today to two local organisations. Kerry Hospice Foundation and Tralee International Resource Centre each received cheques on Tuesday from The Bon Secours Hospital Tralee Community Initiative Programme. “We believe that, through our Community Initiative Fund, we can act as a catalyst in tackling social issues […]

A FANTASTIC sum of €9,326 was presented to Kerry Hospice Foundation yesterday after a fundraising juvenile football game in north Kerry a few weeks ago. Tarbert Under 13s took on their Listowel Emmets counterparts in a the Bibi Memorial Cup on November 13 to remember Bibi Dillon, who passed away […]

THE Kerry Hospice Foundation’s Christmas Cards for this year were launched at the Palliative Day Care Unit on Friday. This year’s selection of Christmas cards were unveiled by Liz Reidy, Clinical Nurse Manager (3) in Palliative Care Inpatient unit, artist Jane Hillard and Ronan Deasy representing Kerry Group who once […]

IT’S a very busy week of fundraising for the Kerry Hospice Foundation with their big coffee morning fundraiser taking place tomorrow at venues around the county. There’s a very different fundraiser to close out the week though, when a tractor and vintage car run will take place on Sunday from […]

A STALWART of the Kerry Hospice Foundation, Mairead Fernane, has retired from duties after 15 years. Mairead got involved in the Foundation in 2006 and was treasurer since 2015. She said the decision to step down was a difficult one and it was a huge privilege to work for such […]

THE proceeds of three fundraisers held over the past year were presented to the Kerry Hospice Foundation at The Meadowlands Hotel on Thursday. The Tralee Chain Gang Cycling Club held a ‘Spin Into Spring’ event aimed at getting people out cycling earlier this year. They held a coffee morning event […]

A KILLARNEY family presented the Kerry Hospice Foundation with a cheque for over €14,000 after a running event fundraiser. Jennifer Aherne organised the event in memory of her dad, Brendan Aherne, who passed away on September 14, 2020 from a rare and aggressive Neuroendocrine Cancer. “From the moment of diagnosis in […]

KERRY Hospice Foundation was presented with a phenomenal amount of money raised from a mart sale recently in memory of a Moyvane man. 41-year-old, John McGrath from Moyvane had oesophageal cancer and passed away in January of this year. John had himself raised €50,000 for the palliative care unit in […]

THE new set of Christmas cards launched by the Kerry Hospice Foundation on Thursday last by Patricia Sheahan, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, which this year contains a message of hope for the times we live in. Also present at the launch was artist Jane Hilliard, who again designed the entire […]

IT’S a very different Kerry Hospice Coffee Morning this year, but a few events still went ahead at hotels around Tralee. The event is one of their biggest annual fundraisers, last year realising around €70,000 in the county. The Tralee Chain Gang Cycling Club hosted a coffee morning kindly sponsored by […]

KERRY Hospice Foundation received over €12,000 from two separate fundraisers on Tuesday afternoon. Donal Prendergast from Killorglin was at the Palliative Care Unit with his family to present a cheque for €2,725 to the Kerry Hospice Foundation. Donal decided to do a head and beard shave and chest and back […]

WHILE COVID-19 is scuppering many fundraisers this year, determined members of the community are still doing their best for worthy causes. The past few days have seen the Kerry Hospice Foundation receive over €8,500 from two separate events. Brothers Brian and Conor Reidy from Tralee raised €1,141 when they held […]

DON’T forget that a vital fundraiser is taking place this weekend to help out the Kerry Hospice Foundation Palliative Care Unit, especially since Sunflower Day has been cancelled. The Covid-19 pandemic is affecting fundraising campaigns for the Kerry Hospice so a local woman decided to help organise an event for […]

THE proceeds of a road race event last weekend were presented to a local charity on Friday. Michelle Greaney of MG Coaching organised the third annual Tralee 10 Miler/5k race on Sunday last, where hundreds of runners took part in what was a hugely successful event in aid of Kerry […]

IF you fancy testing your general knowledge and the possibility of winning a few prizes, then this is for you next week. The Spa/Fenit branch of the Kerry Hospice Foundation will host a table quiz next Thursday, February 27 at 8.30pm in The Oyster Tavern. They are encouraging everyone in […]

VOLUNTEERS from the Kerry Hospice Foundation were at RTE Studios in Dublin on Tuesday where two well-known faces helped launch an upcoming fundraiser. Andrea O’Donoghue, Maura Sullivan and Margaret Crean met up with Kerry Hospice patron Katie Hannon and her Prime Time colleague Miriam O’Callaghan to officially launch the ‘Light To […]

PEOPLE who have done sterling work for the Kerry Hospice Foundation over the years were honoured at a special event in the Palliative Care Day Unit at University Hospital Kerry on Thursday night Seventeen men and women (although three couldn’t make it on the night) were honoured with local ‘Sunflower […]

A MAN who helped raise €11 Million over 27 years for a cancer charity in Kerry was honoured with a civic reception on Monday. Ted Moynihan of the Kerry Hospice Foundation was given the civic reception by the Tralee Municipal District at Kerry County Council buildings in Rathass. The ever humble […]

IT was a joyous afternoon at Kerry General Hospital as chairperson of the Kerry Hospice Foundation, Ted Moynihan, turned the sod on the planned new in-patient palliative care unit. Work can now begin on the €6.2m project which will have 15 in patient beds en-suite rooms. The turning of the sod also marks […]

THE Rose of Tralee was on hand to help Kerry Hospice promote their big coffee morning fundraiser next month. Elysha Brennan turned up at Kirby’s Brogue Inn on Wednesday morning and met members of Kerry Hospice for a photo to promote the offee mornings/evenings on the day of Thursday, September 17. […]

  THE Kerry Four Peaks Challenge has come and gone for another year with last weekend seeing 17 local and non-local climbers take on the toughest peaks that the Kingdom has to offer over a gruelling two day period. The climbs were more than just a physical challenge for those […]