Singer Niall Horan has pledged €100,000 to the Health Service Executive for mobile devices for older people and staff in long-term residential care after he saw the positive effect on his own granny during cocooning due to Covid-19.
Mullingar man Horan recently revealed that to conquer isolation he speaks to his family and has even taught his 89-year-old grandmother how to keep in touch by using FaceTime.
Speaking to Apple Music's Beats 1 with Zane Lowe in April, the Slow Hands singer said: "I'm fine on my own, obviously calling people and just seeing how everyone is, people that I haven't spoken to in a while, checking in at home." Asked who was on his call list, he said: "The family, the parents, my grandmother, have got my 89-year-old