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Hospice Coffee Morning together with Bewley’s returns for its 28th year Host a socially distanced or virtual coffee morning and raise funds for Mayo Roscommon Hospice Foundation on Thursday 24th September #TogetherforHospice Mayo Roscommon Hospice Foundation is appealing to people to support this year’s Hospice Coffee Morning, together with Bewley’s. The campaign has been launched…

Following on from their epic 3-day 240km run from Dublin to Mayo in April 2019, Hardy Bucks stars Peter Cassidy and Stephen Kelly don the running shoes again for a cause very close to home. Starting on September 22nd, the ‘bucks’ are going to tackle the coast of Mayo along the scenic Wild Atlantic Way…

A Roscommon postman and local Councillor is taking to his bike to raise funds for Mayo Roscommon Hospice Foundation this month. Joe Murphy, who is a postman in the Strokestown/Curraghroe area is going to complete his postal run on his post-bike on August 28th.  Joe is specifically raising funds for the completion of the Roscommon Hospice, which is currently under…

Ultra-Cycling Charity Challenge        16th – 21st August 2020 #6days32counties #goingtheextramile Mayo Ultra-Cyclists will take on a 1,900km challenge across all 32 counties this August The Ultra-Cycle is being held in memory of James Alexander Moore, who was cared for in CHI at Temple Street Funds raised will go to support Temple Street Foundation, Down…

Mayo Roscommon Hospice Foundation has warmly welcomed the announcement today by Minister for Rural and Community Development Michael Ring of funding of €200,000 from the COVID-19 Stability Fund. The fund was created to provide immediate, short term cash flow to qualifying organisations which provide critical services to the most vulnerable in society. The funding has…

Mayo Roscommon Hospice Foundation’s 12 shops have reopened to the public. The nine shops in Mayo and three in Roscommon were closed since March 12th due to the COVID-19 crisis. Strict safety protocols will be adhered to in all of the shops, to ensure the safety of the public and our staff and volunteers. They…

On Saturday May 2nd, 8-year-old Eloise McDonnell had planned to make her First Holy Communion. To mark the day, while maintaining social distancing and observing all guidelines, Eloise completed a 10K in Kilmovee in her sister’s communion dress. Eloise and her sister Lucia raised over €30,000 for Mayo Roscommon Hospice Foundation. Last year Eloise participated…

Two transition year students at CBS Roscommon have raised almost €11,000 for Mayo Roscommon Hospice. Tommie O’Hara and Sean McCormack were behind a huge tractor run that happened in Roscommon Town at the beginning of March. The tractor run was in memory of Tommie’s sister, Tracey Brennan, who came to prominence having campaigned for the…

The first batch of face masks were presented to Angelina Nugent of the Mayo Roscommon Hospice Foundation at the Kilmovee Shamrocks GAA ground, while observing the government physical distancing rules. Some 4,000 face masks were donated to the Mayo Roscommon Hospice Foundation following an online appeal for donations in a bid to raise funds to…

The Roscommon Senior Footballers have raised over €50,000 for Mayo Roscommon Hospice Foundation. The players came together in April to raise funds for Mayo Roscommon Hospice Foundation, after learning that how severely the charity was impacted by COVID-19, with its 12 shops closed and fundraising events cancelled for the foreseeable future. The panel, management and…