On Monday, 10 April, 2000, at 3.00 pm the Minister of State and chairman of the National Millennium Committee, Mr. Seamus Brennan, TD, will officially open a £3 million state-of-the-art Centre for the Elderly, Gascoigne House, on Cowper Road, Rathmines.

Built as a Millennium project under the auspices of the Dioceses of Dublin & Glendalough, the new Centre will be dedicated by the Archbishop of Dublin, the Most Revd. Dr. Walton Empey, assisted by the Right Revd. Monsignor Patrick Devine.

It replaces the Gascoigne Home, formerly The Rest for the Dying, in Camden Row, founded in the 1880s with money given by Colonel Trench Gascoigne. 

Gascoigne House will  provide

• residential nursing care for 44 residents

• day care  facilities

• respite and convalescent care

• terminal care

• places for dementia sufferers

It is receiving a garnt of £400,000 from the National Millennium Committee.