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Your newsletter: Stories, updates and all the
wonderful things you have made possible.
Summer 2019
Our little
superstars
Temple Street
on the Late
Late Show
Meet Calum, Robyn, Blake and many more of the brave
children you have helped. Plus read about our amazing
Christmas FM campaign and much, much more.
Thank you for being part
of our Circle of Care
Every sick child in Temple Street is
surrounded by an extraordinary and
unbreakable circle of care. It comes
from the dedication of our world-
class medical staff, the devotion
of their families and the constant
generosity of supporters like you.
Your hard work, compassion and generosity are an essential our amazing patients and their families who you
part of the unbreakable chain of support that surrounds have helped. And you’ll get to read about the positive
every child and every family in Temple Street. changes and advancements your support has made.
And your support also continues to bring transformative We hope that you’ll enjoy reading this edition of Your
change to our hospital – in our wards, theatres and Street and learning more about how your kindness
Intensive Care Unit. It helps to fund vital, life-saving and generosity help to make Temple Street such a
equipment, patient and parental supports and ground- special place – and a home away from home for so
breaking paediatric research. It also makes state-of-the-art many children.
facilities like our new Neurology & Renal Outpatients’ Unit
Thank you so much for your on-going support and for
possible.
being a such vital part of our circle of care.
Quite simply, you are helping to save little lives every minute
of every day.
In the pages of our newsletter, you’ll meet just a few of
Denise Fitzgerald
Chief Executive, Temple Street Foundation
A huge thank-you
to Christmas FM listeners
We at Temple Street were thrilled to be chosen by
Christmas FM to be their charity partner for the
2018 festive season.
The station and its kind listeners went to amazing
lengths in support of our little patients, raising a
phenomenal €404,551. Over half of this sum –
€215,000 – was raised in a single day.
We are truly overwhelmed by the amount of love
and support we received from people all over the
country. The donations raised by Christmas FM
listeners have helped purchase six new incubators
and a critical-care ventilator for fragile babies and
children in our hospital.
On behalf of the staff, families and patients in Temple
Street, we would like to thank the team in Christmas
FM as well as each and every person who donated to
support the hospital over the festive season.
Look at the €2,564,486
impact you’ve had! Medical Equipment
In the last year, you have helped to €1,657,725
raise an incredible €5.1 million for Redevelopment and
essential services and equipment new service development
in our special hospital.
These funds are literally a life-line for €521,477
over 147,000 sick children who visit Patient & Parental
Temple Street every year. Thank you for Support
your wonderful support!
€388,992
Research
How your “Thank you for making
this new dialysis
kindness saves lives equipment a reality
for our little
Temple Street is the National Paediatric patients.”
Haemodialysis Centre and every child
who comes, from all over the country,
needs access to the very latest in dialysis
technology. And now, thanks to you,
they have just that.
Because of your on-going wonderful support, we’ve
been able to purchase eight new dialysis machines for
the hospital, including new mobile devices for home
dialysis, replacing older equipment and increasing the
number of dialysis machines available at Temple Street
for children who need them.
None of this would be possible without you.
Temple Street
on the Late Late Show
As you may have seen, this February, Temple
Street was celebrated on a very special episode
of the Late Late Show!
A whole host of familiar faces from the hospital new mobile ventilator
joined Ryan Tubridy on the couch to talk about the for our neonatal ward
amazing community that makes Temple Street the St. Michael’s B, a host
place it is today. of new play therapy
and multi-sensory
The show featured some of our wonderful Temple equipment and
Street families who told their own personal and €10,000 to support
very moving stories about their experience in the Temple Street’s Sibling
hospital. Featured on the night were some of our Camp.
bravest little patients: Myles, Sophia, Izzy, Ivy and
Ruadhán. On top of that, Tesco then
presented Temple Street with a
We are so grateful to each and every family for phenomenal cheque for €250,000.
taking the time to share their stories with the
nation. It really was a special night. But don’t worry if
you missed it, you can watch highlights from this
And to top it all off, the evening wrapped up with special episode on the Late Late Show’s YouTube
a presentation of some incredible surprises from channel!
our wonderful friends in Tesco, including a brand
Tesco – our wonderful
charity partners
We are so thrilled to announce that our wonderful friends
in Tesco Ireland have now raised a spectacular €4.3 million
for sick children in Temple Street. Funds were raised from a
wide variety of activities which included in-store cake sales
to the sale of the hugely popular Cedric teddy bear.
The support received by Tesco staff and their customers
has helped to provide cutting-edge paediatric equipment
where it is needed most, right across the hospital in our
theatres, wards, laboratories and Intensive Care Unit.
From all of u
And this year, Tesco has an ambitious target of hitting that s in Temple
magic total of raising €5 million over 5 years. So keep an Street – than
eye out for those special Temple Street events in your local k you Tesco!
Tesco store.
“Thank you to each and
every one of you for
saving my son’s life.”
Little Calum Emmett’s Temple Street journey
began in February when he became unwell and
his worried mum Jennifer rushed him to Temple
Street. Calum was diagnosed with pneumonia
and sepsis and needed an operation to drain the
fluid that had built up in his lungs.
Jennifer says, “My poor little boy was lifeless, lying
in a hospital bed after losing so much weight due to
being so sick. I was so scared.” Calum head down for his
emergency operation. “As a mother you’re terrified.”
Although it was a terrifying time for the family, Jennifer explained. “I remember breaking down in
Jennifer says that they were treated like royalty tears. Two nurses beside me gave me a cuddle – it
from the minute they shows you’re not just a number; you’re a priority.
walked through the Your child means so much to them as well.”
doors of Temple Street.
“From household staff, Thanks to your support, Calum is now on the other
kitchen staff and porters side of his Temple Street experience and back home
to doctors, nurses and with his loving family.
surgeons – they couldn’t As for all of Temple Street’s supporters and
have done enough for volunteers and the medical staff who cared for her
myself or Calum.” little boy, Jennifer says, “Thank you to each and
The scariest moment for every one of you for saving my son’s life. He’s my
Jennifer was watching best friend and I don’t know where I’d be without
you.”
How your
kindness who comes to Temple Street.
changes lives From Saturday Clubs, parties
and even ice cream on a
warm day to multi-sensory
When a child comes to equipment and assistance
hospital for treatment, it can to children preparing for an
operation, our Play Specialists
be an anxious and confusing work hard to make sure that
experience. On average a child our little patients have as positive
will see fifty-two new faces in a a hospital experience as they
single day. possibly can.
“Thank you
It is absolutely essential that we are for helping to Your caring support means
able to make a child’s visit to hospital that we can now equip the Play
as stress-free as possible. That’s
bring smiles Therapy team with the tools and
why our incredible Play Therapy and joy to resources they need to make
Department works so hard to create a our little their wonderful events possible
warm, welcoming, home-from-home and to purchase a range of toys
experience for every single sick child patients!” and multi-sensory equipment.
“The Temple Street
community is a very
special one.”
Most children who come to Temple Street stay
just a few days or weeks. But for some children,
Temple Street becomes a home from home for
all their childhood.
Eoghan Clonan from Booterstown is in Transition
Year and has been attending Temple Street for the
past sixteen years, having been diagnosed with a
rare neuromuscular condition Pelizaeus Merzbacher
Disease (PMD) when he was just 18-months-old.
His dad Tom says, “The staff in Temple Street have
shown Eoghan – and all of our family – excellent
care and love over all of these years. The Temple
Street community is a very special one.”
Eoghan’s biggest challenge.
Last September, Eoghan faced one of his biggest
challenges: major spinal surgery to correct his spine
and to relieve the pressure of scoliosis on his heart
Eoghan with his dad Tom - and and lungs.
assistance dog Duke - meeting
President Michael D Higgins. Tom says, “For me as Eoghan’s Dad, it was hard to
say goodbye to him when he went into theatre.
Especially when the theatre nurses handed me
Eoghan’s little bracelet and silver ring.”
Do you fancy Thanks to the great care and facilities that
you help to provide, Eoghan’s operation
a trip to Inis Mór ? was a great success. And on the day
he was discharged from Temple
A huge thank you from the parents, staff and patients in Street he also got his Junior Cert
Temple Street to all our friends on Inis Mór and the 200
results. As his dad Tom says, “He
participants who helped to raise over €90,000 did very well, so it was a double
celebration!”
during this year’s Inis Mór Half Marathon.
Remember registration is now open for next year’s Inis
Tom says of their time in
Mór Half Marathon, which will take place in April 2020, for Temple Street, “We have
more information contact angela.mcnulty@cuh.ie. always had a very positive
experience in Temple
Street hospital and we
Inspire your community! would like to thank
Contact Angela in our everyone for all of their
Community Team to find out support and kindness to
how you can hold your own us over the years.”
creative fundraiser and make a
real difference for sick children!
You’re
fangtastic!
Thanks to everyone who made
our most recent Trick or Treat for
Temple Street such a
terror-ific event, raising an
incredible €310,000. And a special
thank you to our wonderful
sponsors MiWadi. We hope you all
can join in the fun again this Halloween.
To find out more, or sign up for this year’s
event, contact us at info@templestreet.ie
or 01 878 4344.
Tax-efficient giving
One of our best
A special thanks to all our supporters who
Christmas Raffles
completed their charity donation tax reclaim
form. You helped Temple Street claim back an
ever!
extra €109,522. Thank you!
A big thank you to all our wonderful supporters
If you donate €250 or more annually Tax- who took part in the 2018 Christmas
Efficient Giving can increase the value of Raffle. You raised over €550,000 to fund 38
your donations by 45%. To request a form specialised infant cots and a new Ultrasound
and more information please contact the
Scanner for our Radiology Department.
fundraising office on 01 878 4344 or email
This new model offers greater diagnostics
claudine.kelly@cuh.ie.
capabilities and will reduce overall scan times,
resulting in shorter more efficient visits for both
our patients and their families. Thank you!
Route 66
bikers raise
€395,000!
Huge congratulations to our amazing Route 66
Motorcycle Team who raised a massive €395,000
during their epic journey across the USA. Since
it began, the Temple Street Route 66 challenge
has raised almost €3 million to help redevelop
wards and purchase cutting-edge paediatric
equipment in Temple Street.
We are now recruiting for the 2020 Route 66
challenge, so if you would like to take on the
journey of a lifetime, contact Angela McNulty
Roll on 2020
in the fundraising office for more information at
angela.mcnulty@cuh.ie or on 01 878 4344. !
“ Without Temple Street and all
the people who help, I probably
wouldn’t be here.”
When her daughter Robyn was
a few weeks old, mum Siobhan
looked at her and could tell
straight away something
wasn’t right.
“She was a funny colour,” she recalls. “Over a period
of a few hours, she changed – her lips were going
blue. So I drove her straight down to Temple Street.
I’ll never forget that drive as long as I live. Every
traffic light I was looking to make sure she was still
breathing.”
Eventually, Robyn was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis.
Meet Robyn
“It was so scary,” says Siobhan, whose best friend died
“Growing up, as I got older, I started
of cystic fibrosis when she was a girl. “But the doctors
to feel different to the other children.
were so great. They said I’m going to tell you a little
It was very hard at times, but it got
bit today and a little bit tomorrow,’ which was brilliant,
easier as I came to terms with it. Cystic
because there was too much to take in all at once.”
fibrosis is a horrible disease, but it’s
Robyn is 15 years old now. Her whole life she’s been never going away. It’s just part of my
coming to Temple Street every few weeks for check- life.”
ups and physiotherapy appointments, as well as
“Temple Street is so special to me.
specialist treatment for chest infections and diabetes.
All my times in Temple Street sort of
“Temple Street all come together to make just one
means everything big happy memory. The staff are so
to us,” says friendly. They will do anything for you.
Siobhan. “The They talk to me and not just my mam.
nurses in Temple They don’t make me feel like a patient.
Street are like Temple Street didn’t just save my life,
our family. They they are keeping me alive every single
become part of day.”
you.”
“Without Temple Street and all the
people who help, I probably wouldn’t
be here.”
The Cystic Fibrosis
unit that Robyn attends
was made possible by
the amazing support of
people like you.
Blake McGinley from Co.
“ We owe it all to Donegal was just one month
old when he developed hernias
Temple Street” and was rushed by ambulance
from Letterkenny hospital to St.
It was a difficult and stressful time for Michael’s B – Temple Street’s
Blake’s parents Lisa Marie and Michael, but neonatal ward – for surgery.
as Lisa Marie explains, the staff in Temple
Street were there to help. “From the
minute we walked through the ward doors
we were made to feel totally at ease. The
nurses on the ward were very sympathetic.
We couldn’t have got through it without
them.”
Brave little Blake’s surgery was a success
and after a few days under the gentle care
of Michael’s B nurses, the family made their
way back home to Donegal. But their joy
at being back home was short-lived. Blake child. The doctors
suffered an infection in his wound and and nurses
was transferred back to Temple Street - went above and
where he was cared for with the life-saving beyond for him,”
equipment that your support helped to says Lisa Marie.
provide.
Finally, Blake
“This time we were admitted to St. Michael’s was well
C - another amazing ward. Blake was enough to
totally doted on as he was so little. We return home
spent another week there and they treated to his sister
Blake as if they were treating their own Leigha and since then he
has come on in leaps and bounds! Lisa
Marie says, “Blake has made a full recovery
and is now a lively, happy 17-month-old
How your
and we owe it all to Temple Street!”
kindness cares
for the sickest
children Temple Street’s With your support, we’ve
Intensive Care Unit been able to purchase
looks after over 500 a brand new ultrasound
critically-ill children device for the ICU. This
every single year. While wonderful, life-saving,
our expert team of piece of equipment
doctors and nurses monitors the hearts of
battle to save their seriously sick patients
lives, it is vital that they and enables our medical
have access to the team to provide the very
latest, state-of-the-art, best of care for the most
paediatric equipment. seriously ill children.
Some of our
special visitors
Over the year, some very special
visitors have called to see the
children in Temple Street. See if ar
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Kathryn Thomas with S“Their compassion
and the standards
of care were so
incredible.”
When ten-month old Brooke became seriously
ill with Influenza A she was rushed to Temple
Street for emergency treatment. For Brooke’s
parents Allison and Thomas it was such a scary
time. “My hope for the Great Irish Bake
was to help in whatever way we
Allison says, “It is a life-changing moment for
a parent, whose sole purpose in life is to love could the staff, parents
and protect their child, to face the fear of being and children who attend
utterly helpless. The team of doctors around the Temple Street.”
bed were in charge and I am so grateful to them,
for what they do, each and every day.”
As the isolation room in Temple Street became
a kind of second home for Brooke, Allison was
amazed by the care and dedication of the staff,
“I was blown away by Temple Street’s tireless
attitude, their compassion and the standards of
care were so incredible.”
When Brooke finally got the all clear, Allison was
ecstatic. But as she left Temple Street, she saw
newly arriving parents and desperately wanted
to do what she could to make sure they could
get the same great care that she and Brooke had
received.
That’s why Allison was one of the amazing
people who hosted a Great Irish Bake for Temple
Street this year and raised a phenomenal €1,869.
You’re a Star Baker!
On Friday, 5th April, an incredible 1,200 Great
Irish Bake for Temple Street parties were held up
and down the country! This year, our brave little
bakers were joined by broadcaster and mum
Karen Koster as well as our sponsors Gem.
From all of us here in Temple Street, we would
like to say a big THANK YOU to all of our
incredible star bakers who raised amazing funds
and shared photos of your fantastic cake sales
And if you haven’t returned your funds yet,
please don’t forget! Get in touch at
info@templestreet.ie if you need any help.You can be part
of Temple Street’s
wonderful Circle
of Care
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