LauraLynn News

Nicola, mum to eight-year-old Alex, one of our very special LauraLynn children, got in touch last summer to say she would be doing Hell & Back with her nursing colleagues in September 2018.

When you’re a LauraLynn children’s palliative care nurse, each day is different. 

“Knowing that we have this resource available to us lightens the load in what can often be a difficult journey.”

This week WEEE Ireland announced a €50,000 donation to LauraLynn as part of the WEEE Pledge battery recycling programme.

LauraLynn welcomes the overall findings of a recently conducted inspection of our disability services – also known as The Children’s Sunshine Home (CSH) – by the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA).

At the beginning of 2018, LauraLynn, Ireland’s Children’s Hospice was selected as Charity Partner of the Year by the daa, alongside the Irish Motor Neuron Disease Association and Snowflakes for Autism.

For International Thank You Day, our Principal Clinical Psychologist, Dr Aidan McKiernan shares with us the importance of gratitude and how this practice can positively improve our lives.

Molly Jones was born on December 21st, 2011 weighing a healthy 6lbs, however Molly struggled to breathe and needed oxygen and incubation.

‘A real Shirley Temple with her mass of curls’

Unfortunately, my girls cannot voice their opinions, and how I wish they could. I can tell you from my point of view, that we had very little palliative care support at the end of Lynn’s life.

I remember the night Aideen was born. I went home that night with the biggest smile on my face. The next morning, when I went to the hospital, I was told there was something wrong.