Friendly Call: ‘Some people don’t have anyone, a birthday card from us is the only one they’ll get’

Staff and volunteers from Cork City Partnership providing a ‘friendly call service’ , by doing shopping and deliveries for the elderly in Cork city, from left, Slavi Crowley, Yvonne Qullligan, Tom Hosford, Gary Hornibrook, and Patricia Cotter. Picture: Eddie O’Hare

Brenda Barry stopped to take a call before dropping a hamper, donated by a local GAA club, to a vulnerable client living alone in the Cork countryside.