'I get to play every day with the most amazing children': Fun and games in hospital 

A father was so grateful to the staff on CUH's Puffin Ward, he built a toy MRI simulator to help prepare children for the scanning procedure 
'I get to play every day with the most amazing children': Fun and games in hospital 

CUH play specialist Rachel Griffin.  Picture: Dan Linehan

When Sean Tierney’s eight-year-old son was discharged from Cork University Hospital in May, the dad of three felt “just saying thank you on the way out” wasn’t enough.

Right from the start of Isaiah’s four-day stay on Puffin Ward, the Midleton-based dad was impressed by the way play and games were brought to the patients’ bedsides.

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