Help our smallest heroes

Cork's smallest superheroes are calling on the Cork public to empty their pockets this Friday. The Mercy Heroes fundraising event is raising vital funds for MUH's Paediatric Oncology Outreach Nursing Service (POONS), which gives children with cancer the chance to get treatment from their own home.

Cork companies, schools and individuals can become real life heroes by hosting events such as coffee breaks, dress up or dress down days at work and school and bucket collection, this Friday 18 October.

Mercy University Hospital (MUH) will host a mega coffee morning in the hospital from 9am to 12pm and the general public are invited to pop in for a cup and some treats.

Mercy Heroes from the Cork City Fire Service will be lending their support by having a bucket collection outside Brown Thomas from 10am to 4pm.

Ballincollig community will also be showing their support for their very own six year old Mercy superhero, Conor Wills. Conor’s primary school, Scoil Eoin, will have a coffee morning supporting their hero.

Elsewhere Kim Clifford and Dennehy’s Health & Fitness Gym will host a Spinathon from 9.30am to 1.30pm in Castlewest Shopping Centre in Ballincollig.

Mercy hero Callum McCarthy’s school, Scoil Naomh Fionan Rennies in Nohoval, will be having a pyjama day. In 2018, the community of Nohoval raised €18,000 for the Mercy Heroes campaign.

Castletownbere will come together to support five year old West Cork native Lizzie O’Shea who was diagnosed with leukemia in 2017. Lizzie’s primary school, Scoil an Croi Ro Naofa and Beara Coast Hotel will host coffee mornings in support of their little hero.

North Cork will also stand together in memory of their very own superhero Fionn Doyle.

Fionn sadly lost his battle with leukemia on New Year’s Eve. Bunscoil Na Toirbhirte in Mitchelstown and Kildorrery Primary School will host coffee mornings in his memory.

Funds raised give MUH the chance to provide at home cancer care treatment all around Cork and as well as some areas of other counties. Olga Buckley, Paediatric Oncology/ Haematology CNS at The Mercy said: “We see first-hand the amazing benefits of being able to provide treatments to sick children in the comfort of their own home.

“Not only does it allow to offer some normalisation for the child undergoing treatment, it helps to relieve a huge amount of pressure for their parents.”

For more information visit mercyfundraising.ie.