Longford fundraising for cancer care

Ms Claire Murtagh (second from left) and from left to right, Ms Anne-Marie Grimes, Ms Noeleen Kiernan and Ms Mary Murtagh

During the summer of 2005, Ms Claire Murtagh (Aughnacliffe, Longford) and her two friends, Ms Anne-Marie Grimes and Ms Noeleen Kiernan (all 21 at the time), and Claire's even younger sister, Mary, decided to do some fundraising for St. James's. The girls charmed North Longford into an array of fundraising activities - and their own and the efforts of so many of their friends were well-rewarded. The girls ended up generating €22,600 which they generously contributed to St. James's for the comfort of current cancer patients at the hospital. Many patients will benefit as a result of their kind effort.

St. James's is the largest single provider of cancer treatment in Ireland with national centres of excellence established - not only for adult bone marrow transplantation, leukaemia and lymphoma - but also for skin, gastro-intestinal, head and neck, lung and gynaecological cancers and for oesophageal cancer surgery. The hospital is now selected as the largest national centre for radiotherapy service provision, provision of which is to be established by 2011. A major new government funded Radiation Oncology Centre will be built and equipped at the site.

Contact us

To make a gift or obtain additional information about St. James’s Hospital Foundation you are welcome to contact us:

St. James’s Hospital Foundation
St. James’s Hospital
James’s Street
Dublin 8
Ireland

Telephone + 353 1 428 4086
E-mail foundation@stjames.ie