Caring and sharing at Listowel’s Árd Cúram day-care centre

IT’S only right and fitting that Joan Walsh is a regular visitor to Árd Cúram, a day-care centre in Listowel — two decades ago she was on the original committee that set up the Listowel centre for the elderly.

Once a week she is collected from her home by bus at about 9am and makes an hour-long journey to the centre on John B Keane Road, stopping to pick up others along the way.

“When we arrive there is a cup of tea, scones, brown bread and a chat,” she says. “The staff are very nice. Someone will come in to do our feet, our hair or talk to us. Or maybe we do a bit of painting, or arts and crafts.”