O’Gara pitches in for hospital fundraiser

Nearly 40 years after it was first built, a massive fundraising campaign has been launched to raise €1.5m to complete a makeover on Cork University Hospital’s (CUH) children’s unit.

CUH Charity is asking clubs, businesses, schools and people in Cork, Limerick, Kerry, Tipperary, Waterford, Clare and Kilkenny to get behind them by organising an event or fundraising initiative in aid of this appeal. Children from all these counties use the unit.

The refurbishment is part of a wider investment at CUH’s paediatric department as the Mercy University Hospital relocates its children’s unit and child leukaemia/ cancer services to the Wilton campus in 2014.