Dr Rory O’Hanlon has turned the sod for a new day and residential hospice on the north side of Dublin. The £3 million-project is expected to be completed by 1991.

Report shows Our Lady's Hospice in Harold’s Cross.

Nurse and patient inside the hospital.

Site in Raheny where the new hospice is to be built on land owned by the Capuchin Friars.

Interview with Dr Mary Redmond, Chairperson, Irish Hospice Foundation.

Home care centre already operating on the new hospice site.

Interview with Eileen Brunell.

The reporter is Teresa Mannion.

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