'Our blankets wrap people up in love': caring for Cork cancer patients in lockdown

Cork Cancer Care Centre has made the best of the lockdown circumstances it can, but its Blankets of Hope programme continues to provide comfort in trying times

Linda Goggin-James: Cork Cancer Care CEO is proud of Blankets of Hope's over 25,000 blankets made for cancer patients the world over

As CEO at Cork Cancer Care Centre, I am used to the building bustling with chat. I think that this lockdown has been the hardest of them all - on everybody. 

Cork Cancer Care remained open throughout this time. Our holistic therapies had to stop because they are touch therapies, but we do counselling and psychotherapy by phone and online and a huge percentage of ours are face to face. It's very hard to talk about how you are feeling on a Zoom call.