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Mr Keith Cawdron, General Manager
Ms Jacinta Cannon, Clinical Director
Miss Pat Murphy, Director of Fundraising
Our Trustees
Mr B McLoughlin (Chair)
Mr David Brignall
Mrs Marie Caddick
Mrs J Daly
Mrs T Owen
Rev Father G Timney
Mr J Pedley
Mr J Gillespie
Ms Jenny Stewart
Ms Yvonne Atkinson
Mr George Foster
Our Founder
The story of Jospice International is the life story of the compassion, the dreams, the sublime faith, the charisma, the persuasiveness and the persistence of one man... Father Francis O’Leary.
Father Francis O’Leary was a legend in his own lifetime... a man in a million... God’s fool. Like St Francis of Assisi his actions always preached; sometimes he used words.
He pushed the barriers of “can’t do” into “can do” and did it.
Those of us who worked with him learned to take his foolishness seriously. He was the irritant that formed the pearl. He loved you, without you being aware. He had the knack of making you believe he couldn’t manage without you, so you tried your best to meet his need the result was often surprising, beyond your expectations and his.
He was described by one stricken family as “ a light at the end of a dark tunnel”.
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