Post Tagged with: "Kerry Hospice"

“Hospice matters. The end of life deserves as much duty, care and respect as the beginning. I hope that any of you will never need the Hospice, but the Hospice will always need you.” TED Moynihan’s words addressing those gathered as the new €6.5m 15-bed specialist palliative in-patient unit at University Hospital […]

THE annual coffee morning in aid of Kerry Hospice was another great success last week with hotels, bars and businesses holding fundraisers. While Thursday was the designated day to hold events, schoolchildren in St Brendan’s NS Blennerville held theirs on Friday. Children brought in €2 each to contribute to the […]

SIX Bewley’s employees presented a cheque for €1,000 to Kerry Hospice on Friday morning before they set off from Tralee on a 500km cross country cycle to raise much needed funds for Hospices nationwide. It’s all part of Ireland’s Biggest Coffee Morning for Hospice Together with Bewley’s which takes place […]

KIND-HEARTED employees from the revenue office at Spa Road decided to raise funds for the new palliative care unit at University Hospital Kerry recently. Two weeks ago the workers decided to hold a cake sale where the staff brought in home baking and the staff donated into jars, raising around €600. […]

THE  Kerry Association in Dublin 2017 AGM at Wynn’s Hotel, on Wednesday last was an opportunity to make a presentation of funds to Kerry Hospice. During the course of the evening, which was well-attended, the Association presented a cheque in the amount of €5,100 to the 2017 Kerry Person of […]

THERE was a great turnout at the annual Kerry Hospice Good Friday Walk which set off from The Grand Hotel yesterday. It was the 20th Good Friday Walk organised by Kerry Hospice which started in 1998 and around 200 set out on the walk with a few runners taking part two. The weather […]

THE bad weather didn’t deter locals from taking part in the Spa/Fenit Good Friday Walk yesterday. The Spa/Fenit branch of Kerry Hospice held the 10k scenic route walk in memory of the late Jerry O’Sullivan, whose brother took part in the walk on the day. Participants took off from The Tankard, […]

THE Spa/Fenit branch of Kerry Hospice will hold their annual Good Friday 10k scenic route walk and run on Friday, April 14, in memory of the late Jerry O’Sullivan. Participants will take off from The Tankard, Kilfenora, at 11am.  Walkers of all ages are invited to come along, take part and […]

THERE’LL be some well-known faces gracing a charity ball in the Rose Hotel this June with some great prizes to be won. The Midsummer’s Ball in aid of the Palliative Care Unit at UHK will take place on June 9, at the hotel and Miriam O’Callaghan was in town on Wednesday […]

THE annual Kerry Hospice Good Friday Walk will set off from The Grand Hotel on April 14, at 10am. It is the 20th Good Friday Walk organised by Kerry Hospice which started in 1998 and was the brainchild of Chairman of the Kerry Hospice, Ted Moynihan. The route will take participants out by Lohercannon to Blennerville, […]

THE Kerry Hospice Foundation launched its Christmas Card fundraiser on Monday night. This annual fundraiser, sponsored by Kerry Group, hopes to raise tens of thousands towards the continued development and provision of care in the Palliative Care Centre at University Hospital Kerry, which is currently being built. The Kerry Hospice Foundation has […]

TWO local charities will this year benefit from the annual Tralee Golf Club Captains Charity Day. It takes place on Friday, October 14 at Tralee Golf Club and all funds from the day will go towards charities, Kerry Hospice and Family Carers Ireland, Kerry Branch. All funds raised will stay […]

THE memory of an Abbeydorney native who shared a bond with Rose of Tralee Elysha Brennan, will be honoured, along with others who have passed away from cancer, during the festival. The outgoing Rose wanted to do something special for Hellen O’Connor Roche, whom she met on a visit to the Palliative […]

A FAMILY is set to raffle off Hannah the calf heifer in aid of the new palliative care unit at University Hospital Kerry. As a gesture of their appreciation to the Kerry Hospice, Gerard Ashe of Lispole and his three daughters Geraldine, Deirdre and Gráinne decided to auction off the Belgian […]

CH Chemists was the venue for a coffee morning/make-up demonstration in aid of Kerry Hospice earlier today. Helen Lawlor Parker at Lancôme organised the event where Lorraine Byrne from Lancôme Ireland, a Lancôme Trainer, came down to lend her support. Helen introduced Lorraine to the crowd, who asked Ted Moynihan from Kerry Hospice, to […]

FORTY women, mainly from Tralee and west Kerry, pulled together to raise funds for Kerry Hospice by running the VHI Women’s Mini-Marathon during the June Bank Holiday weekend. Spearheaded by Blennerville woman, Andrea O’Donoghue, she put up a post on Facebook and many women responded. “We started a group called ‘Mothers and […]

THE SPA/FENIT branch of the Kerry Hospice organised a great event on Sunday which raised over €1,500 for the charity. ‘A Midsummer Art & Craft Fair’ took place at Tralee Bay Sailing Club in Fenit where artists and craftspeople were kept busy exhibiting, and importantly, selling, their wares to the large numbers […]

TWO lucky ladies won pairs of tickets to the Bruce Springsteen concerts next weekend thanks to a competition run by Barry Packaging, which raised thousands for Kerry Hospice. Breda Barry from the Monavalley-based company ran the competition over the past few weeks and Susan King was drawn out as the winner […]

A WELL-DESERVED civic reception will be held on Monday for a man who has done enormous work for charity and cancer support in Kerry. Ted Moynihan of Kerry Hospice Foundation will receive the honour from the Tralee Municipal District at 1pm at Kerry County Council buildings at Rathass. The Tralee man […]

A CROWD of around 200 walkers gathered at The Grand Hotel this morning to set off on the annual Good Friday Walk for the Kerry Hospice. The weather stayed kind for them, as people of all ages (and a few dogs too) set off on the route which has become an Easter tradition […]

A GROUP based in Blennerville called ‘The Mothers and Others’ are coming together to run a mini-marathon  in Dublin on June 6 in aid of the Kerry Hospice. Behind the charity drive is Andrea O’Donoghue whose father Tony O’Donoghue, sadly passed away after a battle with cancer in 2014. “I’ve experienced […]

OVER 500 people recently attended a coffee morning at the Ballygarry House Hotel to mark the retirement of Chief Superintendent Pat Sullivan after 41 years service in An Garda Síochána. The event on Friday, January 22, doubled as a fundraiser for the Kerry Hospice Foundation, which is a charity very […]

THERE may have been a Status Red Rainfall Alert, but that didn’t stop throngs of people packing into O’Riada’s Bar back in early December to honour the memory of a Lyreacrompane man. The huge crowd turned out during Storm Desmond on Friday, December 4 to support Kerry Hospice in memory of the […]

BALLYBEGGAN man, David Culloty, has handed over his winnings from a ‘last man standing’ competition to a local cancer charity. David Culloty, won €450 in The Blasket ‘Last Man Standing’ championship and has pledged the winnings to Kerry Hospice Foundation. “Even before it started, I said if I win it […]

IT was a wet Saturday morning but there was a decent turnout for the annual Bill Kirby Memorial Walk in aid of the Kerry Hospice. The rain teemed down but around 200 showed up for the walk with Mike Gaffney and friends keeping spirits up playing music before the participants headed away to walk off […]

FOR what’s now become an annual fixture of Christmas celebrations, the Bill Kirby Memorial Walk will take off once more from Rock Street on St Stephen’s Day. Festive attire is encouraged for the Christmas walk (or run) which would go some way in working off some excesses of the day before. […]

THERE will be top fashions, super prizes and Kerry GAA stars present at a fundraiser for Tralee Imperials and the Kerry Hospice later this month. Taking place at the Fels Point Hotel on Friday, November 27, Paul Galvin’s new collection for Dunnes Stores will be displayed on the catwalk, while his Kerry […]

A CHARITY night in memory of a Lyreacrompane man who died 10 years ago will be held next month in aid of the Kerry Hospice. The family of Mike Dillon – who died in 2005 at the age of 44 – are hoping people will come to O’Riada’s Bar on the […]

WHOSE backing band was ‘The Blackhearts’? Which band had a hit with ‘The Final Countdown’? These and many more questions were answered by the many music fans of all ages who turned up at the Manor West Hotel on Friday night for a special music quiz in aid of the […]

THE Kerry Hospice Foundation launched its Christmas Card appeal on Monday night with the help of members Kerry’s All-Ireland winning minor team. This annual fundraiser, sponsored by Kerry Group, hopes to raise in excess of €40,000 towards the continued development and provision of care in the Palliative Care Centre at Kerry […]