Welcome support: Respite care offers lifeline to families

Declan Twomey has Down syndrome, autism, and cystic fibrosis. The 11-year-old Lucan boy also has moderate to severe intellectual disability.

His sisters, Anna, 12, and Maebh, 9, adore him but they also adore when it’s just them with mum and dad on the fortnightly Saturdays when Declan’s at his Saturday Club.