A BLOOMING success is on the cards for the Irish Hospice Foundation, with their Sunflower Days expected to raise more than €1 million next month.

DESPITE advances in medicine, over 135 patients attending Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children in Dublin die every year.

Hundreds of thousands of people downed a cup of coffee today as the vital annual fund raiser for hospice services got under way.

Hundreds of thousands of people downed a cup of coffee today as the vital annual fund raiser for hospice services got under way.

Thousands of sunflowers will go on sale in shops across Ireland today as part of a campaign to raise vital funds for hospice care services for seriously ill people.

THOUSANDS of sunflowers will be sold as part of a campaign launched yesterday to raise vital funds for hospice care services for people who are dying or seriously ill.

SPENDING on hospice care should be more than doubled, Health Minister Mary Harney conceded yesterday.

A new study has revealed a wide disparity in the provision of hospice care around the country.

ALL of us are amateurs at grief and all of us must go through it, Senator Mary O’Rourke said last night at the launch of a book to help the 300,000 people affected by death each year.

HUNDREDS of thousands of people were sitting down to coffee across the country yesterday morning to raise money for the Irish Hospice Foundation.

STAFF in all 87 Tesco branches throughout the country pledged yesterday to raise over €1 million for a good cause.

DRINKING large amounts of stimulants may seem an unusual method of fundraising, but coffee lovers turned out in every county in Ireland yesterday to indulge themselves in aid of the Irish Hospice Foundation.

EVERYONE can help out - it’s as simple as boiling a kettle of water.