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Care home residents inundated with support after Covid-19 social media call-out

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A care home has been inundated with mail after a call for messages to help "lift spirits" during the coronavirus outbreak. Residents at St Luke's Home in Mahon, Co Cork, are no longer allowed to receive visitors due to social distancing measures brought in to protect the vulnerable and elderly.

But after staff put out a message on social media, residents received hundreds of letters, poems, drawings and cards from around Ireland and Europe offering them support.

The residents, who are keeping in touch with their families via Skype video calls, are thrilled with the amount of post they have received.

The care  home has formed a  'post committee’ made up of six residents to help sort through the mail and separate stamps for collecting.

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