The update for Lockdown 3 is that Primary surgeries – Lip & Palate – are going ahead as they did for previous lockdowns. Bonegraphs had almost caught up from the previous lockdowns. They are on hold but will be scheduled asap after the current lockdown. Adult surgeries are on hold. Face to face clinics are also on hold but a plan is being worked on to ‘catch up’ as soon as possible after lockdown. Cleft staff are still working and are still c...

Bottles & Teats have arrived.  The first batches are packed and ready to send to maternity hospitals.  You can see we are using An Post’s distinctive delivery boxes so that the bottles will be easily identifiable plus the boxes are a good size to store on a busy ward. At 9:52 on Christmas Eve we still do not have clarity on BREXIT plus COVID has meant no deliveries from UK anyway.  If it were not for the generousity of fam...

CLAPAI will be receiving a delivery of 500 bottles on 16th December 2020.  It is planned to make Cleft Bottle Contingency packs available to maternity hospitals. Email info@cleft.ie for further information. 

Please register now to help things run as smoothly as possible on ThursdayClick to Register on Eventbrite. (The meeting will open at 7:45 to allow people to connect).Guest Speakers Laura Duggan, Cleft Co-Ordinator Dublin Cleft Centre,and Dr Triona Sweeney, Director & Founder of Speech at HomeThe formal AGM will take place between 8:00 to 8:15Update from the committee 8:15 Bottles & BREXITFuture Zoom eventsFamily Day 2021Work Plan 202...

We should have been having our Family Activity Day this Saturday but COVID-19 has stopped us in our tracks.However, it has not stopped this group of fundraisers that are taking part in activities all over the world to raise funds for our CLAPAI.Check out the link below or search Go Fund Me for Funbarr fundraiser. You will be amazed by how many people are involved.

You will probably be aware by now that, as a result of the COVID-19 situation, we have had to postpone all planned surgery and clinics until we are over the worst of the epidemic. At this stage, we don’t know how long that will be, but it will be much sooner if we all pull together and follow the HSE advice on hand washing, social distancing and reporting symptoms so that we can be tested and isolated early­­ (https://www2.hse.ie/coronavirus/). M...