With your help, I'll be able to afford a live-in carer, and come home to beautiful Cobh rather than live in a nursing home -- and continue my battle against cancer and stroke.

Dear people of the Beautiful City and beyond,

This is Jimmy Crowley, the singer from Cork. I'm having to call upon your kindness as a last resort. I've been rather under the weather of late. In late September 2025 I was diagnosed with Stage Three oesophageal cancer. Three months later, on 27th December, I had a debilitating stroke. I've been in the Stroke Ward in Cork University Hospital for nearly five months now. I had a good many setbacks and complications during that time, including several falls which resulted in a hip replacement and then periprosthetic surgery on the same hip. I am now mostly wheelchair-bound, but have not given up on learning to walk.

Before the cancer diagnosis and stroke, I was a full-time musician, cyclist, all-year-round sea-swimmer, and walker. Now all I want is to be able to return home to Cobh, to my pussycat Smudge and my sweetheart Eve. I'm soon to be discharged from CUH, and the choice is stark: home or nursing home. Unfortunately the only way I can return home is if I have two carers living with me 24/ 7. My partner Eve will be a full-time carer, but I need a second carer. I kindly request any donations, large or small, to help me afford a second live-in carer so I can finally return to Cobh and live at home, rather than in a nursing home, for the time I have left. Your donations will also help with the rising costs of suddenly having to live with not one but two dramatic, life-changing health conditions.

Beannacht, Jimmy C x