Flower power pupils use Confirmation cash for good cause

“The children arrive every June, like garden elves, bringing joy to all, especially, the patients.”

Those were the words of a visibly-uplifted Irene Murphy, the bereavement and family support officer at Marymount Hospice, Cork.

She was commenting on the arrival of the sixth-class pupils from Ballinora National School who, in an inspiring demonstration of flower power, donated a portion of their Confirmation money and money raised in a cake sale, before arriving every Friday for the past five weeks to fill the teardrop-shaped beds with hundreds of plants.