The Monday Interview: Micheál Sheridan, CEO, Mercy Hospital Foundation

The Mercy Hospital Foundation is looking to build a new cancer care centre by the end of 2018 but it is just one of a number of initiatives undertaken by chief executive Micheál Sheridan and the organisation.

Celebrating 10 years, the foundation has raised millions to be spent on upgrades to the hospital and facilities for patients, including €702,000 in 2016. Oncology, paediatrics, and cardiology are just some of its many specialist areas.

Mr Sheridan said: “The foundation was set up in March 2007 and I was brought onboard in September. I was hired with a plan to achieve two things. The first was to start to become a central point for people to start putting their funding through. Historically, if there had been departments getting gifts from grateful patients to use towards their services, we became a point that that funding would go through. The second reason we were set up was to start generating new money through fundraising. That was through events, campaigns, donors, private individuals, that kind of thing. In the 10 years, we’ve achieved a lot and we have also learned a lot.”