Members of the Dublin football team, including Stephen Cluxton, Jack McCaffrey, Michael Darragh Macauley, Eoin Murchan, Bernard Brogan and Michael Fitzsimons, along with manager, Jim Gavin, paid a visit to Children's University Hospital, Temple Street and Beaumont Hospital on Christmas Day.
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Jim Gavin, Stephen Cluxton, Jack McCaffrey and Eoin Murchan with patient Laurence Shannon, from Portmarnock during the Dublin Football team visit to Beaumont Hospital in Dublin
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Eoin Murchan, Stephen Cluxton, Jack McCaffrey with Dublin Fire Brigade paramedics Ciaran Maplin and Aidan Leavy from Kilbarrack Fire Station
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Eoin Murchan, Stephen Cluxton and Jack McCaffrey, with staff on duty in the Beaumont Hospital A and E department
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Michael Darragh Macauley, Jack McCaffrey, Bernard Brogan, captain Stephen Cluxton, and Michael Fitzsimons with seven-year-old Cormac Byrne, from Mullingar during the Dublin Football team visit to the Children's University Hospital, Temple Street in Dublin
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Jack McCaffrey, Michael Fitzsimons, Stephen Cluxton, Bernard Brogan and Michael Darragh Macauley with Séamus Byrne, age 11, from Cabra, Dublin
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Stephen Cluxton, Bernard Brogan, Michael Fitzsimons, Jack McCaffrey and Michael Darragh Macauley, with eight-year-old Ross Duffy, from Coolock, Dublin
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