‘Just a born nurse, a natural carer’ – Frontline hero Dawn Wallace honoured with award

A&E nurse Dawn has been chosen for the Irish Independent ‘Frontline Hero Special Merit Award’ in conjunction with the Croke Park Hotel, writes Vincent Hogan

Dawn Wallace , a Staff Nurse at Tullamore Hospital Emergency Department who was named Irish Independent Sport Star Frontline Star of the Year 2020. Photo: Steve Humphreys

Vincent Hogan

Dawn Wallace is just leaving the cemetery in Milltownpass when she takes our call.

It’s just 14 months since they carried Lee through those gates in Westmeath on his final journey and, though the emptiness never subsides, the grief maybe becomes more rational, more knowable.