Marie Curie

The fundraising effort culminated in the Knocklayde Challenge, where members of the Finlay team travelled to Ballycastle to take on a demanding 14-kilometre hike

'We are extremely proud': NI employees clocks up 1,800km in £9,000 charity drive

Doghouse Ska, featuring Ian 'Buck' Murdock (second left).

Pillar of live music scene forced off road as founder reveals heart condition

Neil Howarth (centre) with his mother Rosemary and late father Peter. Neil and his wife Sadhbh, from Greenwich, south-east London, will run the TCS London Marathon on Sunday April 26, for Marie Curie, the event's charity of the year. The charity supported his family, especially his mother Rosemary, when his father Peter, who lived in Portaferry, County Down, Northern Ireland, was diagnosed with terminal cancer and died aged 63 in 2024. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Family handout/PA Wire . Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

Charity support ‘vital for mum’ after father dies of stroke and cancer

Henderson Retail, the locally owned retailer which operates 115 Spar and Eurospar stores in Northern Ireland, has announced a £2.4m expansion of Spar Silverwood will begin in April

NI food group to start £2.4m expansion to convert and rebrand Co Armagh store

Peter Gilbert, from East Belfast, has been volunteering with Marie Curie for twelve years

East Belfast volunteer champions charity’s biggest fundraiser

Peter Gilbert

“This is one of the most meaningful ways to start the new year”

Aoibhín, Nora and Louise Dougan were among a group of over 100 people walking in memory of Delia McCarron

Marie Curie Twilight Walk: Over 700 people take strides for end of life care

August Book Sale Fundraiser for Marie Curie

Book Sale Fundraiser for Marie Curie, this Saturday and 6th September

Figures from the charity’s Dying In Poverty campaign show that around 111,000 people die in poverty each year in the UK.

Minister calls for terminally ill to be allowed state pension early

Spar University Avenue in Belfast recently celebrated 30 years of serving the local community with a fun day for their shoppers. Pictured is Stephen McClune, Alan Johnston and Shauna McErlaine from SPAR University Avenue, joined by Julie Stamm and Arlene Simmons from Henderson Group

NI community store celebrates 30th anniversary and reveals big summer plans

(L-R) Tesco Community Champions Fionnuala O’Reilly and Sarah-Lee Green and Conor O'Kane, Senior Partnership Manager NI at Marie Curie.

Tesco NI customers raise £57,000 for Marie Curie in one weekend

Kathy Loughridge and Lesley Rutherford at Hillsborough Castle

Honours for Belfast women’s services to Marie Curie and palliative care

Pictured L-R: Celebrating this latest achievement are Lauren McGaughey (Acting Director at Openreach NI), Garret Kavanagh (Director at Openreach NI), Anne Hannan (Partnerships Manager, Marie Curie), and lead support on the Openreach Reach NI Cycling Committee, Sean McGurk (Senior Manager, Customer Planning & Infrastructure at Openreach).

Openreach charity cycle celebrates five years of success, raising £30,000 for Ma...

Baby meerkats, Daffo and Dil, who have been named in honour of Marie Curie's Great Daffodil Appeal. Photo: Mark McCormick.

Baby meerkats at Belfast Zoo named after Marie Curie’s Great Daffodil Appeal

A record number of festive swimmers attend Helen's Bay for the annual charity Christmas Eve dip

Hearty souls take to the sea at Helen’s Bay for the charity Christmas Eve dip

Stephen and sister Lucia Wilson celebrate Christmas in Marie Curie hospice in Belfast. Stephen's story has inspired a poignant fundraising campaign for the end of life charity.

Belfast hospice patient's touching tale inspires festive Marie Curie campaign
The true story of a Belfast hospice patient has inspired a poignant new Christmas charity campaign from Marie Curie.
Iain Gray

Business owners braved the cold water off the Ballygally coast on September 27 to support the work of Marie Curie at The Rising Tide Network event. (Pic: Contributed).

Business owners back Marie Curie effort

Back to the Future The Musical at London's Adelphi Theatre has been named among the best value tickets on sale in the capital

Cheapest 10 London theatre shows to see this Summer from £17.90

Letters to editor

Letter: Belfast Marathon now takes place on a Sunday and I fail to see a problem

Marie Donnelly, the new Marie Curie student Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) for the Western Trust in Northern Ireland

NI nurse sponsored by Marie Curie to do Master’s in Advanced Nursing Practice

Brook Hall Estates.

Brook Hall Estate & Gardens to open in support of National Garden Scheme and Foy...

Jim Brown from Newtownabbey. His poem in tribute to a dear friend who died from cancer has helped the Marie Curie charity.

Co Antrim man's poetry tribute to friend raises funds for Marie Curie

Marie Curie Registered Nurse Rebecca Jennings from Belfast being painted by artist Lisa Buchanan in the painting ‘The Death of Gericault’ artwork originally painted by Ary Scheffer. The piece is part of The Daffodil Collection, commissioned by the UK’s leading end of life charity Marie Curie.Four famous paintings have been reimagined to show individuals receiving compassionate support from Marie Curie Nurses and Healthcare Assistants to highlight the crucial role of end of life care.

NI Marie Curie nurse in the frame as famous artwork re-imagined for charity

Actor James Nesbitt with Marie Curie volunteers (from left) Edwina, Gary and Lesley

Actor James Nesbitt launches Great Daffodil Appeal for Marie Curie in Belfast

Undated handout photo issued by Marie Curie of actor James Nesbitt with Marie Curie volunteers (from left) Edwina Tester, Gary Stevenson and Lesley Barkley as the charity launched its annual fundraising appeal in Belfast

James Nesbitt launches Marie Curie’s annual fundraising appeal

Ad Feature Marie Curie’s Great Daffodil Appeal returns to SPAR stores

The sisters' knitted cakes and biscuits raise money for Marie Curie
When Lynda Wallace thinks of making mince pies and gingerbread man biscuits for Christmas, she reaches for her knitting needles, not her baking trays
Helen McGurk

Pre-death grief is when you grieve for someone before they die

Understanding pre-death grief

Marie Curie Associate Director of Policy and Public Affairs Joan McEwan (left), Craig Mairs, principal of Sullivan Upper School, Holywood, Co Down and Catherine Moore, deputy principal and pastoral lead. Over 300 teachers across Northern Ireland will begin bereavement training designed by Marie Curie and delivered in partnership with CRUSE bereavement support to enable them to better support students who have lost a loved one

Hundreds of teachers in Northern Ireland to begin bereavement training

From left, Patricia Hutchinson with nurse Andrew Hunter, healthcare assistant Rachel McGlone and clinical nurse specialist Laura Cudden with volunteer therapy dog Sandi at the Marie Curie Belfast hospice

Sandi's doggy therapy bringing comfort to the terminally ill

Marie Curie celebrates 75th anniversary with yellow-inspired recipes for Summer 2023

Ad Feature Marie Curie marks 75 years with yellow-inspired recipes for the Summer

Marie Curie

NI facing a ‘tsunami of need’ for end of life care for the terminally ill

James Nesbit shaking hands with patient Catherine Wilson from Downpatrick, during his visit to Marie Curie's Belfast hospice.

James Nesbitt praises ‘amazing’ work of charity after visiting Belfast hospice

The third National Day of Reflection organised by Marie Curie will take place tomorrow (March 23)

Marie Curie encouraging people to come together to remember lost loved ones

Anne Hannon, Marie Curie Partnership Manager with Laura Thompson, Corporate Marketing Manager at Henderson Group and Stephanie Biggerstaff, Health Care Assistant at Marie Curie

Support the Marie Curie Daffodil Appeal and care for those with terminal cancer

It is when the darkness risks appearing overwhelming that the message of Christ’s transforming light becomes most relevant

National Day of Reflection to take place on March 23

Visit of HRH King Charles III to the Marie Curie Hospice, Belfast on the second Day of Reflection, on 23 March 2022, where he met patients and staff.

Honour Marie Curie's Day of refelection in memory of all those we have lost

A waterfront mansion worth £4.5 million is up for grabs, as the UK's biggest ever house draw is launched.

Waterfront mansion up for grabs in UK’s biggest ever house draw

Marie Curie social worker Emma Smyth - who works at the Marie Curie Hospice in East Belfast

How to manage your emotions on Valentine's Day if you have lost a partner

Letter to the editor

Marie Curie is here to help

Letter to the editor

Moral obligation to help terminally ill

Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. shows volumes of the company's encyclopedia. Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. on Tuesday, March 13, 2012 said that it will stop publishing print editions of its flagship encyclopedia for the first time since the sets were originally published more than 200 years ago. (AP Photo/Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc.)

Retro: Encyclopedia Britannica

The report says Northern Ireland needs ‘a bespoke loneliness strategy’ and a public awareness campaign

Loneliness strategy ‘needed for elderly and those in rural areas’

The WI ladies of Portrush Music Society's production of Calendar Girls

Calendar Girls the Musical coming to Portrush

Zak is pictured at the Armoy Sheep Sale where he sold a ewe donated by his grandfather, Joe Dickson.

CHARITY CHOP: Kind-hearted 11-year-old Zak donates his hair to cancer charity Ma...

Paralympian swimmer Bethany Firth won four medals at the Rio games in 2016

Paralympian swimmer urges others to take the plunge

Recently Seskinore YFC held their annual tractor run with all proceeds going to Marie Curie and all raffle proceeds going to Jemma McGowan to help her get to Mexico for vital treatment

Seskinore YFC tractor run

The UK is holding two minute's silence on Tuesday (Getty Images)

This is when silences will be observed today - in honour of lives lost to corona...

NHS workers hold a minute's silence outside the main entrance of Derriford Hospital on 28 April 2020 in Plymouth (Photo: Dan Mullan/Getty Images)

The UK will pause for a minute's silence today - National Day of Reflection expl...

Titanic Belfast will be among the buildings illuminated on Tuesday's anniversary

Minute of silence at noon on Tuesday for all NI victims of Covid-19

Dr Paschal McKeown, charity director at Age NI.

‘Not the time to change care home charges’ say charities

Bap Kennedy (1962-2016) performing on the Belfast Barge

‘Bap wanted others to experience the magic of music just as he did’

Posthumous award for Bap

Join stars and celebrities at huge online charity event

The Northern Ireland Children's Hospice. Pic by Google.

Hospice services in Northern Ireland get £6.75m boost

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