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Mater Hospital Foundation @materfoundation.bsky.social · 1d

#BreastCancerAwarenessMonth #Squats #Challenge #Tshirt

Mater Hospital Foundation @materfoundation.bsky.social · 1d

Take on our 30-day squat challenge and do 3,000 squats in the month of November!

🩷 Support breast cancer care in the Mater Hospital.
❄️ Stay active as the weather gets chilly.
👕 Get your free t-shirt and squat tracker today!

Go to www.materfoundation.ie/squats !

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Mater Hospital Foundation @materfoundation.bsky.social · 2d

Go to www.materfoundation.ie/dickiedip and dare to bare today!

#PatientStory #DickieDip #CancerCare #DareToBare

Mater Hospital Foundation @materfoundation.bsky.social · 2d

This is crap, but it’s not going to define who I am. The anger I felt at my diagnosis gave me the determination to beat the cancer."

You can help patients like Mark and support men's cancer care by taking part in this year's Dickie Dip.

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Mater Hospital Foundation @materfoundation.bsky.social · 2d

“Playing sport is a big outlet for me. I wasn’t going to let my diagnosis stop me from living my life. It took a little while to build my stamina and strength back up, but I wasn’t going to just sit around because of it. That was my mantra from day one.

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Mater Hospital Foundation @materfoundation.bsky.social · 2d

That was nearly three years ago. Recently, Mark shared with us that he is back to 100% himself and playing sports again. It was a chapter of his life he feels lucky to have gotten through.

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Mater Hospital Foundation @materfoundation.bsky.social · 2d

“I thought I was only going up to Dublin for a quick check-up and then I was getting admitted and starting chemo straight away."

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Mater Hospital Foundation @materfoundation.bsky.social · 2d

Mark shares his experience, “I felt like I was dreaming. I didn’t know what was going on. In that moment, I just couldn’t comprehend it. I wasn’t going to be able to play sports anymore. I may never be able to work again.

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Mater Hospital Foundation @materfoundation.bsky.social · 2d

Meet Mark 👋

Mark is a GAA sports-mad, Wexford man constantly on the move. At least he was, until he heard the words, "We have bad news."

Mark was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia, a type of blood cancer.

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Mater Hospital Foundation @materfoundation.bsky.social · 2d

You can help make care not just life-saving — but life-changing.
Join the Dickie Dip today and dare to bare for men's cancer care! www.materfoundation.ie/dickiedip

#DickieDip #MensCancerCare #DareToBare #Prostate #Brotherhood

Mater Hospital Foundation @materfoundation.bsky.social · 2d

The video project has been supported in full since 2022 from the Mater Hospital Foundation thanks to the kindness of our supporters. Every donation helps us create more resources like this, giving men across Ireland the tools and confidence to take charge of their health.

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Mater Hospital Foundation @materfoundation.bsky.social · 2d

Knowledge is power — especially when you’re facing prostate surgery.

Consultant Greg Nason explains how a suite of videos have been made to support prostate surgical patients pre, during & post-op. The team's aim is to 'Empower Surgery Patients in Self-Care’.

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Mater Hospital Foundation @materfoundation.bsky.social · 4d

#FreeWill #LegacyGiving #CharitableWills #LeaveAGift #HealthcareHeroes #LegacyOfLove

Mater Hospital Foundation @materfoundation.bsky.social · 4d

From the very beginning, the Mater has been powered by the extraordinary kindness of the people of Ireland. And today, you continue that same spirit of generosity passed down through generations of caring hearts.

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Mater Hospital Foundation @materfoundation.bsky.social · 4d

Sister Catherine McAuley made it her mission to open a hospital that cared for all, or as she put it, "somewhere the sick and poor could go without having to know someone or pay money."

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Mater Hospital Foundation @materfoundation.bsky.social · 4d

In 1820, and the death rate in Dublin was the highest in all Europe. If you were poor and you or your child became sick, your chances of survival were thin — it was as simple and brutal as that.

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Mater Hospital Foundation @materfoundation.bsky.social · 4d

Your hospital, a history 🩺

In the 1800's, Ireland is gripped by poverty and disease. Witnessing the suffering of people, Sister Catherine McAuley begins work on her dream for a hospital for the people. 164 years later, her vision lives on in every life you help save…

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Mater Hospital Foundation @materfoundation.bsky.social · 5d

❗🧎 Can you do 100 squats a day, every day for the month of November?

Join our 30-day squat challenge to get your free t-shirt today!

Help support breast cancer care in the Mater Hospital.

🔗 www.materfoundation.ie/squats

#BreastCancerAwarenessMonth #Squats #Challenge #Tshirt

Mater Hospital Foundation @materfoundation.bsky.social · 6d

Go to www.materfoundation.ie/dickiedip today!

Pictured: (Image 1) Tom wearing a dickie bow for the Dickie Dip. (Image 2) Tom (R) with his late father Paddy (L).

#DickieDip #Brotherhood #InMemory #DickieBow #MensCancerCare

Mater Hospital Foundation @materfoundation.bsky.social · 6d

you can really feel it throughout the morning, and it gives the event a special atmosphere."

Join Tom and hundreds of other men running into the Irish sea on the 8th of November in Skerries for the Dickie Dip. Help support men's cancer care in the Mater Hospital. ⬇️

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Mater Hospital Foundation @materfoundation.bsky.social · 6d

Tom continues, “I’ve been lucky enough to see the last couple of Dickie Dips first hand, working as part of the team here at the Foundation. That sense of camaraderie, brotherhood and solidarity with those gents who’ve experienced cancer in their lives…

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Mater Hospital Foundation @materfoundation.bsky.social · 6d

“What would my Dad think? Well, he'd definitely tell us we are mad fools to be charging into the sea at that time of year, but he'd be pleased as punch that his memory is helping others." Tom is taking part in the Dickie Dip this year to honour his late father Paddy.

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Mater Hospital Foundation @materfoundation.bsky.social · 9d

#MentalHealthAwareness #PsychoOncology

Mater Hospital Foundation @materfoundation.bsky.social · 9d

it’s about supporting everything else the patient is carrying. Their fears, their family, their identity.”

Led by compassionate professionals like Sinead, our Psycho-Oncology service — funded in part by kindness like yours — provides essential care to people living with cancer.

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Mater Hospital Foundation @materfoundation.bsky.social · 9d

Because of you, cancer patients at the Mater get the psychological support to help them through…

"You're caring for the whole person,” says Sinead Lynch, Senior Psychologist. “It’s not just about treating the cancer —

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