Actor happy to be an ambassador for €30 million expansion of St Francis Hospice in Dublin
The development will include dedicated family areas as well as the required clinical support facilities. The new build will link to the existing St Francis Hospice building by a pedestrian bridge, there will also be a new garden.
“I feel odd being the face of something when other people are doing the actual work. At the same time I do support them. I’m unashamedly supporting them,” Gleeson said. Gleeson witnessed his mother, who spent her life helping others and cherished her independence, reluctantly enter the hospice but submit to “a beautiful surrender of control” while there. His father “was a stoic person who found it easier to accept”.
St Francis Hospice social work coordinator Niamh Finucane said the existing facility had three four-bed rooms and seven single rooms. It is not a satisfactory arrangement, she acknowledged. A move to single rooms in the hospice’s sister facility in Blanchardstown has been a success.
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