Dublin superstar Brendan Gleeson has called on the nation to fundraise for hospices by supporting coffee mornings.
The Hollywood star kick-started Bewley’s Big Coffee Morning Social for Hospice, which has raised over €41.5 million since its inception and this year celebrates its 30th anniversary. Brendan joined Hospice hosts and volunteers at the iconic Bewley’s café on Grafton Street to ask the nation to organise a coffee morning social on Thursday September 22.
"While your illness has defined you as a patient, hospice care looks beyond your illness and sees you as a whole person - with wishes, goals, hobbies and interests,” said the legendary actor, whose late parents were cared for in St Francis’ Hospice in Dublin. The 67-year-old actor, whose latest film, The Banshees of Inisherin, is due out in October, insisted patients are “so well looked after, allowing them to live as full and independent lives as possible, for as long as possible”.
