Tuesday, December 22, 2015
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TUCKING INTO FESTIVE FEAST
Gift of joy for brave Arron CHRISTMAS joy is winging its way to a Cork family in Newcastle this evening as the Cork City Children’s Hospital Club deliver a seasonal surprise to a youngster recovering from a double lung transplant.
Teachers, Lisa Ronan and Vicki Corcoran, enjoying the Deerpark CBS, sponsored Christmas party celebration for students, staff, members of the board of management and parents association at the school. Picture: Denis Minihane LOCAL businesses have kept the spirit of Christmas alive and well by bringing festivities to Deerpark CBS. Yesterday, some 200 students and 50 teachers were treated to Christmas dinner courtesy of Carambola Ltd., Nemo Rangers, Ballinacarriga Stores,
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Martin O’Sullivan of Keelings and the Deerpark staff. Two teachers — Lisa Ronan and Vicki Corcoran — organised the event with the aid of some students. The generous initiative saw full Christmas dinner and many extra treats for the students and teachers.
12-year-old Arron O’Leary, from Ballinhassig, who was born with Cystic Fibrosis, has spent the last two weeks in Newcastle’s Freeman’s Hospital recovering from the life-changing operation and won’t make it home for Christmas. Instead club chairman, John Looney, and John Long, Community Garda in Bishopstown, are paying a surprise visit to Newcastle, to deliver some well deserved Christmas gifts to brave Arron, his parents Paul and Caroline and brother Cian.
■ Cork sends Christmas cheer to Newcastle ■ Audrey Ellard Walsh “We discussed it and said it would be a fantastic little gift for all the hardship they are going through being away for Christmas that we would go over,” said Garda Long. And since devising their plan, the club say that they have been overwhelmed by goodwill. Lee Travel, who have been arranging the EuroDisney trips for the club for the past 19 years, have sponsored flights and accommodation, while Wilton Shopping Centre have donated €1,400 to help cover some of the family’s expenses in Newcastle. They have also given gifts to Arron’s parents, sponsored by Neville’s Jewellers and O’Sullivan’s Pharmacy. ■ Continued on Page 2.
Arron getting early Christmas gifts.