Help pump life into campaign

A fundraising drive aims to support kids with heart defects writes Helen O’Callaghan.

A GIANT heart erected on Dublin’s O’Connell Street for St Valentine’s Day is not a romantic gesture but an appeal to passers-by to make a donation to Heart Children Ireland.

The eye-catching Perspex heart on the corner of North Earl Street and O’Connell Street will be there between 9am and 6pm today. With the motto, ‘fill the heart with love”, all funds raised will go towards supporting parents and families of children born with a congenital heart defect — a defect in the structure of the heart and blood vessels which is present at birth.