The Waterford branch, Waterford Hospice Movement (WHM), has been running as a hospice, homecare and palliative care service for the people of Waterford City and County, as well as South Kilkenny, since 1988, almost 40 years ago

Antoinette Coakley said she will do ‘everything’ she can for a Wicklow hospice after it arranged a wedding in her husband’s final weeks.

The event was part of Bewley’s Big Coffee Morning, the main annual fundraiser for hospice and home care services nationwide

'The work being done by nurses and care staff is truly incredible, they are a gift from God, they are angels'

The Hollywood star said it was the way he ‘really felt at the time’ after witnessing ‘unacceptable’ treatment at a hospital.

This week the hospice said it was having to cut a number of bed places due to a bleak financial outlook.

More than 2,500 people registered to take part in the Bewley’s Big Coffee Morning Social for Hospice