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Its 1st component is an online platform to raise funds in support of 🇺🇦. Other projects & programs will be added soon.
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— Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) May 5, 2022
This morning/afternoon
Go fund Ze?
Only you can decide.
📢📢🚨🚨🚨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.
This afternoon.
The GoFundMe campaign launched on December 6th by staff at the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin to raise money to buy a new heart ultrasound machine for extremely premature babies nears €80,000.
It hoped to raise €76,500.
In fairness.
Earlier:
The Rotunda Hospital NICU Heart Ultrasound Machine (GoFundMe)
Rotunda staff resort to online fundraising for equipment (The Irish Times)
Karen McEvoy who died on Christmas Day
Yesterday, in The Irish Times.
Kitty Holland reported that Karen McEvoy, 24, originally from Tallaght in Dublin, died of suspected sepsis on Christmas Day, a week after she had given birth to a healthy baby girl in the Coombe hospital on December 18.
The baby girl was her third child, as Karen already had two boys with her partner Barry Kelly, 26, and she was discharged on December 19.
Ms Holland reported that within two days of giving birth, Karen was “complaining of severe back and abdominal pain, exhaustion, flu-like symptoms and sweating” and that by the time she was back visiting the Coombe on December 23, for her daughter’s heel-prick test, she needed crutches to walk.
Barry told Ms Holland that, while at the Coombe, Karen went to the A&E and was told she may have sciatica and advised that “If it gets worse go to Tallaght [Hospital] for an X-ray”.
On Christmas morning, she woke up swollen and slurring her words. She was brought to Naas hospital where medics decided to sedate and intubate her – with the aim of helping her to breathe. However she went into cardiac arrest and died.
Barry said the staff at Naas Hospital did everything they could and they “were brilliant. It was very hard for them too”.
This morning, Ms Holland is reporting that Barry is calling for an independent investigation into Karen’s death while a GoFundMe page has since been set up to help Barry and Karen’s children.
Those who wish to donate to the fund can do so here
Woman (24) died on Christmas Day one week after giving birth (Kitty Holland, The Irish Times)
Man calls for independent investigation into partner’s death (Kitty Holland, The Irish Times)
From top: Carlow Weather guy Alan O’Reilly; his broken drone
We’re calling it the Alan Parsons O’Reilly Project.
Much-followed Carlow Weather guy Alan O’Reilly (him off the telly!) has broken his drone.
And he’s set up a GoFundMe page to help him replace it.
Alan, who provides his forecasting to the nation for nothing, requires 1450 lids to fly again.
He writes:
“Sadly my old drone hit the rocks and I’m to to replace it so I can continue to share photos from the air…”
Anyone?
