Happy 10th birthday to the Kolbe school:

Recently, we headed down to the Kolbe special school in Portlaoise to help them with their 10-year birthday celebrations, bringing cake, arts and crafts and a visit from Johnny the clown. More information on this great day and photos to come soon.

Winter Wonderland!

Our recent Winter Wonderland was a fantastic success! Santa and the elves saw over 240 children from Tallaght region, six different childrens’ hospitals across Ireland, Autism Ireland and some special needs children. All reports back were fantastic, everyone was amazed as to how Santa knew so much about each of the children! A big thanks to all the supporters and companies that helped make it a huge success including The Smurfit Foundation,  Covidien Ireland Ltd., Dominos Pizza, The Army and The Dublin Fire Brigade!

A weekend that changed my life – a personal account written by Caoimhe McDermott Quinn:

The best weekend of my life began at three o’ clock on a Saturday afternoon. My family and I arrived at my school to find a helicopter had landed on the football pitch! Don’t know if that was in the original plan but it was cool!!! Some of my friends and neighbours came to wave us off – they even got the opportunity to check out the helicopter. It seemed like it was someone else experiencing it. For the past nine months, I had travelled to Crumlin hospital by train and a few times by car… Read More

When Aoife’s Dream Came True:

My beautiful daughter Aoife was diagnosed with an inoperable tumour in April 2003. She had 5 weeks radiation treatment but it was unsuccessful. We decided to treat her with alternative/complimentary medicine as there were no other options. The following is the story of how The Bubblegum Club made her dream of being a princess come true….Read More

Keith’s Dream Come True:

Keith, from County Monaghan is a remarkable young man who is wheelchair bound from an extremely aggressive form of ‘Still’s Disease’, Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis. His care is 24 hours a day and there is a lot of expensive medical equipment, which restricts him to either hospital or home. He has been give a very short period to live.

We arranged for a helicopter to collect Keith from Cavan General Hospital and fly him and his medical team to Dublin Airport, where he boarded a private plane bound for Manchester…Read More