RIP Laura Buckley Noonan
Search
07 Sept 2025
Search
07 Sept 2025
Please allow ads as they help fund our trusted local news content.
Kindly add us to your ad blocker whitelist.
If you want further access to Ireland's best local journalism, consider contributing and/or subscribing to our free daily Newsletter .
Support our mission and join our community now.
To continue reading this article, you can subscribe for as little as €0.50 per week which will also give you access to all of our premium content and archived articles!
Alternatively, you can pay €0.50 per article, capped at €1 per day.
Thank you for supporting Ireland's best local journalism!
Aisling Moynihan, winner of last year’s Nurse of the Year award at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital. Photo: Paul Connor
International Nurses Day 2023 is being celebrated once again in our hospitals in Louth.
International Nurses Day will be marked on Friday May 12th in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda and Thursday May 18th in Louth County Hospital, Dundalk.
This celebration takes place annually on the birthday of Florence Nightingale.
International Nurses Day is celebrated around the world to mark the contributions nurses make to society. This year the theme is ‘Our Nurses; Our Future”.
Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital will celebrate this day with a ‘Festival of Nursing’ celebrating the inclusivity and diversity of our world class nursing team.
There will be posters, stands, quizzes with spot prizes throughout the day.
The wards and units are focusing on “The Building Blocks of Nursing” and will have posters on display highlighting what is important to their area of expertise.
Members of the public will have the opportunity to view much of this work, which will be on display in both hospitals over these dates.
Many special guests will visit the hospital on the day including his Excellency, Ambassador Akhilesh Mishra, the Indian ambassador to Ireland.
The Director of Nursing, Mr Adrian Cleary said: There are just over 1,000 nurses employed across our hospitals.
"The care, compassion and commitment delivered by individual nurses and nursing teams has, and will continue to be, at the very heart of healthcare delivery ensuring access to quality healthcare for all.
"On International Nurses Day, we celebrate that contribution to our community and to our society in general."
Subscribe or register today to discover more from DonegalLive.ie
Buy the e-paper of the Donegal Democrat, Donegal People's Press, Donegal Post and Inish Times here for instant access to Donegal's premier news titles.
Keep up with the latest news from Donegal with our daily newsletter featuring the most important stories of the day delivered to your inbox every evening at 5pm.
This publication supports the work of the Press Council of Ireland and Office of the Press Ombudsman, and our staff operate within the Code of Practice of the Press Council. You can obtain a copy of the Code, or contact the Council, at www.presscouncil.ie, Lo-call 1800 208 080 or email: info@presscouncil.ie.
