Christmas just wouldn’t be Christmas without a Christmas tree. Every December Andy Kenny aims to make Willie Bermingham Place, the housing scheme for older people, a little bit brighter by bringing more than 20 Christmas trees direct to its residents.
This year marks the 10th anniversary since Kenny’s first Christmas tree delivery to the housing development in Kilmainham but he is simply following in the famous footsteps of his uncle Willie Bermingham, who founded Alone in 1997. Bermingham, a Dublin firefighter who became a fierce advocate for who he called “the forgotten old”, was in
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