Westgate Foundation is a community-based organisation providing an integrated range of services for older people including daycare, community catering, sheltered housing, transport, social and active retired club, social work, and counselling. Westgate Foundation employs a staff team of 60 people and enjoys the support of many volunteers. It is a registered charity and limited company…
For the past three years McKesson Cork and NorthStar have taken the opportunity to commit one day per year to focus entirely on employee engagement and enhancing relations among. In previous years the focus has been on Managing Unconscious Bias and Personality profiling, this year the focus on the Company Day was the topical issue…
McKesson Cork and NorthStar Healthcare An 18-person crew comprising of McKesson and NorthStar staff participated in the Dragon Boat Challenge on Saturday 6 July 2019, bringing the colour and buzz of sprint racing to Cork city centre. The race is in aid of Meitheal Mara, Cork’s community boatyard and nationally-accredited training centre. The organisation is…
Paul Collins Prod & Real Estate Rship Mgr. Committing in January, delivering in March “Running is nothing more than a series of arguments between the part of your brain that wants to stop and the part of your brain that wants to keep going ”.. unknown January was as always, a time for…
When I think about our recent CSR trip to the Westgate Foundation in Ballincollig, Cork, the idea of community comes to mind. What is a community? It’s a group of people, who are bonded by something in common (e.g. location, goals, sport, heritage, values, etc.). Between our two very different (yet related) healthcare businesses co-located…
Why would a group of people get up from their warm bed to do a 5km walk at 4.15 in the morning? In one word, compassion. That is what a group of McKesson / NorthStar colleagues did, with other groups, at separate locations around Cork; other people did it around the globe as a community of thousands walking together, on Saturday morning, May 12th 2018. The “Darkness into Light” walk is an event…
It all began with the McKesson Wellness challenge (an 8-week walking challenge) a bit of fun and a bit of banter. Little did we know that a short walk would lead to a 26.2-mile marathon. Training began earnestly in February at which stage we all felt confident we would complete the Marathon. Straws were drawn at the multiple meetings to discuss the strategy in…
A special Christmas for local families. Every Christmas, McKesson & NorthStar work with St. Vincent de Paul for the annual ‘Giving Tree’ event and this year was no exception. Gifts of all shapes and sizes were generously donated to this extremely worthy cause. We received tags for fifty boys and fifty girls, with names and…
Last September I set out to complete the Canfranc Canfranc Challenge in aid of Aware, a national mental health charity in Ireland providing support services to those experiencing depression. The event itself consists of running 45km across four of the peaks in the Pyrennes Mountains on the Spanish-French border. It’s one of the rising events on the European trail running circuit…
As I waited on Patricks Bridge along with 125 other amateur cyclists I was filled with mixed emotions. The Hill was filled full of supporters, banners, flags and shouts of encouragement all accompanied by the pipe band belting out songs of support. I tried to block it all out as I reflected on the last…