Medical card warrior and Jack & Jill graduate Alex Kinne Coyle from Bray makes €5,000 donation to the Jack & Jill Foundation from royalties from his Dad Declan’s book “The Green Platform” (Photo courtesy to Pat Tinsley)!!! Alex Kinne Coyle from Bray Co. Wicklow and his parents Annette and Declan paid a visit to Jonathan Irwin at the Jack & Jill Foundation recently to give Jonathan a very special donation of €5,000 from the royalties of Declan Coyle’s book “The Green Platform”. Alex, who was born in December 2004 with a rare genetic disorder Mowat Wilson syndrome, was supported by the Jack & Jill Foundation and the Kinne Coyle family have also donated €5,000 to Alex’ school St. Catherine’s. Declan, who is originally from Dungimmon and now living in Bray with his family, has a wonderful chapter in his book on “Alex the Greatest” who Declan describes as “Unconditional love. He doesn’t have an Ego. He doesn’t do the past. He doesn’t do the future. He only does the present. Here. Now.’ Jonathan Irwin welcomed them saying: “Alex and his family were true warriors in the medical card battle this year and it was only through their courage in sharing their story, and others like them, that we were able to convince the Government and the HSE that they’d made a big mistake in removing discretionary medical cards from children like Alex. For their time, their efforts and this wonderful donation we say a big thank on behalf of the Jack & Jill Foundation. It’s been a tough year for all charities and it’s generous donations like this that keep us going. And the battle continues on medical cards until children like Alex get their own card, in their own name, in their own right automatically. We need to live children’s rights in Ireland in 2015, and not just talk about them.” Thousands of people including winning Irish football teams (Kerry and Cork) and hurling teams (Tipperary and Dublin), bluechip CEOs and management teams across the globe, as well as ordinary people have used Declan Coyle’s Green Platform as a key to success. These principles were put into action by Declan himself when he worked for 12 years as a Columban missionary priest in the slums of the Philippines and Taiwan. He later married and had 3 children, the youngest of whom is Alex who is profoundly physically and intellectually disabled. Again, Declan says his Green Platform principles were personally tested as the family faced the difficulties and struggles of caring for a child who does not speak, is tube fed, suffers seizures, can only take a few steps and is doubly incontinent.
Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 09:12:25 +0000
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