€500,000 for Sick Children’s Hospital

CHRISTMAS came early for hundreds of sick children yesterday when €500,000 was donated towards a new play therapy centre at Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin.

Santa Claus also made a special visit ahead of schedule to Ireland to greet a young patients at a special function in Dublin.

However, the real-life benefactor was the supermarket group, Musgrave Super-Valu Centra, which presented €250,000 each to the hospital and the Irish Cancer Society towards the joint development of the new facility at Crumlin.