TV presenter Sybil Mulcahy and media personality Brendan O’Connor joined forces with independent toy retailer, Toymaster to support its ‘Toby for Charity’ fundraising campaign in aid of the Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation! People are being asked to visit their nearest participating Toymaster store to purchase a ‘Toby’ mascot puppy to raise much-needed funds forRead more
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“On behalf of the 300 children under our wing we have been and will continue to be busy on the medical card crisis. Our nurses have formally requested a meeting with Minister Reilly to discuss what his Department calls “the hard cases” which we have documented and to demand that he & his cabinet colleaguesRead more
OUR FIGHT FOR MEDICAL CARDS CONTINUES! “On behalf of the 300 precious children with life limiting or life threatening conditions under our wing, we pledge to continue the fight for automatic medical cards ALL THE WAY. We won’t get sidetracked by the €2.7 million we must raise every year to keep our service going. ThisRead more
Friends, both old and new, gathered together in the Four Seasons Hotel, Dublin, last Friday, May 9th to remember a very special little boy at Sam’s Lunch and raise much needed funds for the Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation! Now in it’s 7th year, 200 guests attended this special lunch which is so kindly organisedRead more
The Applegreen Charitable Fund, now in its 5th year, concludes another exciting chapter by donating €405,387.12 to be split between its charity partners The Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation and Console. The total amount raised is 59% higher than the target set for this two year charity drive involving Applegreen’s customers and the Applegreen serviceRead more
Dear Supporter Follow @jjfoundationAll this publicity about charity chief top ups is damaging. I’m writing this letter to clarify where the money donated to Jack & Jill goes and to urge supporters to stick with us, especially for those Christmas donations which we depend on to fund our home nursing care model into 2014.Read more
The New Children’s Hospital of Ireland debate relaunched over the passed weekend through articles in Sunday Independent and Sunday Business Post. The Independent featured a letter from Jonathan Irwin outlining the disadvantages of the current site chosen and the strengths of the proposed site at Connolly Hospital in Blanchardstown while the Business Post published JimmyRead more
The families of the 300 children around the country supported by the Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation are being put through torture on medical cards, endless form filling, reviews, rejection letters and stress. Follow Jonathan on Twitter And here we have the HSE in Leinster House today repeating their well crafted holding statement on medicalRead more
Together we are stronger!!! PLEASE ADD YOUR VOICE TO JONATHAN IRWIN’S CALL TO THE TAOISEACH BY SENDING IN YOUR OWN EMAIL TODAY TO [email protected]. Also email your local representative [email protected], or ring them; full contact list of the Oireachtas members on: http://www.oireachtas.ie/parliament/contact/. WE NEED YOUR HELP ON THIS ONE PLEASE! Dear Taoiseach, I’m writing to addRead more
A BIG THANK YOU from everyone at Jack & Jill to Trish & Kieran Hosey and everyone who supported The CIARA HOSEY MEMORIAL Golf Classic last August which raised a phenomenal amount of €13,355. Cheque presentation to Jonathan Irwin, Jack & Jill CEO on Saturday, 28th September. Read more
