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4 March 2010 Friends of the Elderly WeekNominate Your Friend of the Elderly
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| Traditional singer | Sallins, Kildare |
| Singing, plus gentle movement programme | Killester, Dublin |
| Two young brothers with guitars; country-western and ballads | Lusk, Dublin |
| Singer with guitar; ballads | Rialto, Dublin |
| Singer | Dublin |
| Singer with acoustic guitar | Drumcondra, Dublin |
| Mixed voice choir; light and sacred music | Cork City |
| Singer with acoustic guitar, folk, story telling | Dowra, Co Cavan |
| Singers, part of choir | Mullingar Area |
| Mature gentleman sings ballads and country | Navan, Co Meath |
| Older gentleman with keyboard and acoustic guitar; country and 'singalong' | Finglas, Dublin |
| Classical guitar | Tallaght, Co Dublin |
| Singer and accordianist; folk, traditional and ballads | Ardee and Drogheda |
| Marionettes; full puppet cabaret | Rathfarnham, Dublin |
| Singer, very good crooner; Sinatra, Dean Martin, etc. | Dublin Area |
| Fiddle and bodhrain | Co Clare |
| Young singer and dancer; plays accordian | Gort, Co Clare |
| Young female singer with guitar; sings professionally | Dublin |
| Young man with guitar; sings professionally | City Centre, Dublin |
| Mature female singer; classic hits, sacred and traditional ballads | Mount Merrion, Dublin |
| Singer with guitar | Waterford City |
| Singer; Hollywood musicals | Fairview, Dublin |
| Duo singers and guitar; ballads | Leixlip, Co Kildare |
| Actess/Singer with guitar | Stonybatter, Dublin |
| Male singer; sixties numbers | Dublin |
| Male ballad singer | Dublin city centre |
| Clarinet and descent recorder | Dun Laoghaire |
For more information on Entertainment for the Elderly contact Dermot Kirwan at Friends of the Elderly by phone 01 8731855 or e-mail.
15 April 2009
1 March 2009A new free weekly transport service called Shop Route, that will link the elderly with their community, has been launched on the City's Northside by Dublin City Council.
Shop Route is a free service that offers fully accessible, free door-to-door transport service to local shopping centres for older people in the North Central Area of Dublin.
Shop Route operates Monday to Friday, between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. The service will be available in each neighbourhood one day a week.
The service is operated by Vantastic can be booked by ringing freephone number 1800 242703. Advance booking is essentail.
16 February 2009As the recession bites and the cost of home heating increases, senior citizens relying soley on the state pension are facing into a tough winter. Thousands of pensioners will be unable to adequately heat their homes and run the risk of suffering health problems as a result.
"Pensioners who live alone in poorly insulated homes are most at risk" says Dermot Kirwan of Friends of the Elderly. "The National Fuel Scheme on it's own is just not enough to protect the most vunerable of the elderly, most of them live in older houses where half of the heat escapes due to poor or non-existent insulation. The Department of Environment has a means tested Housing Aid scheme for older people which covers repairs and improvements, if it were extended to specifically include insulation and the threshold raised it would start to pay for itself."
Friends of the Elderly are recommending a scheme Called 'Warm Front' which works well in the UK. "This is a package of insulation and heating improvements sponsored by the UK government that has proved to pay for itself after two years and brings huge savings thereafter" says Dermot. The scheme is operated locally, provides work locally, strengthens community links, saves energy and saves the elderly and the government money.
If you can support Friends of the Elderly's campaign to get free home insulation for the elderly in need contact Dermot Kirwan at Friends of the Elderly: Phone 01 8731855.
1 December 2008Friends of the Elderly are setting up a Dublin Senior Citizens Darts League, if you would like to join us for an afternoon of darts and good company, give us a ring and put your name down with Friends of the Elderly.
Commencing May 2009
Dermot Kirwan
01 873 1855
20 March 2008Bernard and Esther Ryan are Ireland's Greatest Grandparent's. Friends of the Elderly with Specs Savers awarded a three room, 2 night stay in the luxurious Killarney Lodge Hotel. They recieved their award from Gretta Gray, President of Friends of the Elderly, in the Westbury Hotel.
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3 January 2008The Friends of the Elderly 'Life and Times' module for Transition Year students is a simple idea. We are encouraging students to write the memoirs of an elderly person, it might be one of their own grandparents, or the grandparent of a friend, or an elderly neighbour. We don't want it to be an exhaustive, detailed biography, we want it to be more a personal recollections of how it felt to be young during the 20's, 30'3 and 40's of the last century. All authors will get a certificate of merit. There will be regional and national awards, and the best will be filmed for RTE.
Contact Dermot Kirwan for more information, Phone 01 873 1855.
Sean McGuiness, longtime saxophonist throughout the Dublin area in various
venues and now playing for Friends of the Elderly's Wednesday Club, with his
transition year student biographers from St. Paul's CBS.
Tommy Fox,a master of ceremoniesand popular Dublin entertainer, and his transition
year student biographers from St. Paul's CBS.
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International Federation of Little Brothers of the Poor |
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