LauraLynn House officially opened by President of Ireland, Mary McAleese

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Established in 1925, The Children's Sunshine Home is a charity that supports children with life limiting conditions, and their families, by providing respite, transitional, home support, crisis and end of life care to those with high medically dependent conditions.

The Children's Sunshine Home Hospice Project was launched in 2005 and merged with the LauraLynn Hospice Foundation in 2007 to maximise their fundraising efforts and realise their shared vision of building Ireland's first children's hospice. The monies needed to build LauraLynn House have come entirely through the organisation's fundraising efforts.

About Laura and Lynn
The 'LauraLynn Children's Hospice' Foundation was set up in 2001 as a result of an enormous personal tragedy in the lives of Jane and Brendan McKenna which saw them lose both of their precious daughters Laura and Lynn in the space of just two years.
Their youngest daughter Laura was born with a hole in her heart, and having endured and survived six months and two serious operations in Our Lady's Hospital, went on to have a few relatively good years, with the final repair operation to come. Sadly when it did, Laura did not survive it and died in 1999, aged just 4. Her mum describes Laura as 'a very happy, funny, beautiful little girl. A real Shirley Temple with her mass of curls, she always had a smile and made us all laugh so much -- she was so cute and so brave'.
Lynn, on the other hand, had 13 years of perfect health until she was diagnosed with Leukaemia on the very day her younger sister passed away. How she coped with her illness, her adored sister's sad death and her own impending death was an inspiration to her parents. She had such courage and acceptance, at just 15 years old.

For further information please contact:
Miriam Ryan - 01 293 99 77 / 086 353 1679 or Jane Flynn -- 01-2893151 / 087-2356801

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