Radio Beams – Meals On Wheels

Radio Beams – Meals on Wheels in Clare.
We have Hanna O Brian from Clare Care who tells of how they adapted their services during Covid19. By now delivering over 60 meals in and around Ennis.
Obair New Market on Fergus have examined there offering of meals and wheels and have expanded it to cover their immediate area and now cover parts of Ennis and East Clare. Giving out over 150 meals at day. Emer Murphy coordinator tells us all about it.

Then we have on recently set up in Ennis Meals on Wheels, spearheaded by Tina Whelan and Fr Ger Fitzgerald with Chef Frank Landy who do 50 free meals at day, while others charge a minimum of €6.

Also doing great work in the Shannon Food Bank run by Karen Cassidy and others, where they have dried food they give out and they are linked in to Food Cloud.

We also note others in Doolin Hotel like wise are giving out free dinners for the Covid19 period to support the more elderly population as well as Kilmaley Day Care Center.

Overall, there are up to 2000 meals a week given out to the more vulnerable people in Clare.