The Girls Club offers services to cancer sufferers

Ann Dowley Spillane talks to Helen O’Callaghan about her vision for The Girls Club.

IT was derelict when Ann Dowley Spillane first saw it. No floors, kitchen or toilets, just bare walls. Ann saw a blank canvas. Despite the disrepair, she felt “an amazing feeling” of comfort.

“Coming in the door, my mother was behind me. I said ‘can you see what’s going to go on here?’ She said ‘no, you’re ill, you have no money’.”