📢📢🚨🚨🚨We’re looking for local dine-in restaurants that are going take-out to stay open during #Coronavirusireland to help us deliver food to frontline staff. Is that you? Sign up to deliver on https://t.co/w132Ee2nIp
— Cian O Flaherty (@cianflah) March 15, 2020
Last night and today.
Almost €50,000 has been raised to buy and send food to healthcare staff via local businesses through a GoFundMe campaign called Feed The Heroes.
The fund was set up last night by Cian O’Flaherty with the initial aim of raising €250.
From earlier…
Redbird Cafe in Bray have decided to close down for a while and donated everything they had to Loughlinstown Hospital. Again they refused to take our money. We owe them a visit when they reopen. Thank you so much for helping #feedtheheroes https://t.co/3RniWSyC6C pic.twitter.com/MCwuoQyLvS
— Cian O Flaherty (@cianflah) March 16, 2020
On it's way to #Tullamore Hospital from @dominos_ie . Your contributions are helping to #feedtheheroes across the country. Thank you all so much! #CoronaIreland pic.twitter.com/wf6jimWcX9
— Cian O Flaherty (@cianflah) March 16, 2020
Lunch from @inforlunch for the crew in CUH ICU #cork. Amazing to see so much good will going out to #feedtheheroes. Thanks to Jim and the crew! pic.twitter.com/xQkpdgQJpn
— Cian O Flaherty (@cianflah) March 16, 2020
Delivery off to the @AmbulanceNAS centre today to feed the staff on round the clock calls. Thanks to F&B Catering in Killenard for supporting #feedtheheroes if you want to get involved https://t.co/w132Ee2nIp #CoronaIreland #covidireland pic.twitter.com/UniJsMM7jc
— Cian O Flaherty (@cianflah) March 16, 2020
In fairness.
Trying to find out more, but on the radio this morning, a poster said that a couple of hotels that closed their restaurants and also lost bookings for events, like marriages etc, but had already purchased the food, were offering to make up meals for the emergency teams, or even to replace the canteen staff in the hospitals for a while and give them a break.
This and the many shops offering delivery for those isolated, and many groups showing up organising this is a great sign of a healthy society. Our country’s systems have problems, but that is not the people.
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Make sure that the heroes being fed include the cleaning staff in hospitals. These are the min wage workers, possibly on zero hour contracts that are working flat out to keep public areas and touchpoints sanitised. It’s a great initiative but I’d like to see all hospital staff looked after during this crisis.
A very valid point! One of my old friends is a porter in our local hospital. What they have to do on a normal routine is hell, but now they have to deep clean everything.
And let us not forget those in nursing homes and similar centres. There are so many fantastic workers out there who go unnoticed, or worse, are seen as merely furniture. But without them, well, the system does not work.
Being both a patient and a visitor in recent years, I see just how valuable the auxilliary staff are and I appreciate them every bit as much as the medical staff for their hard work.
well said
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Heroes for more than a day.