Sr Consilio 'Eileen' Fitzgerald (born 9 January 1937) is an Irish nun who set up Cuan Mhuire, a charitable drug, alcohol and gambling rehabilitation organisation in Ireland.
After completing her leaving certificate, she began training as a nurse in the North Infirmary Hospital in Cork.
The Sisters of Charity encouraged their nurses to do visitations of the sick or needy on Gurranabraher—a local housing estate.
Years later when she was doing her midwifery in St. Finbarr's Hospital, Cork she found herself once more in Gurranabraher – this time in the capacity of a midwife.
During Consilio's time working in St. Vincent's Hospital, Athy, she came in contact with, and befriended, many "men of the road"—those men of no fixed abode who went from county home to county home, and found temporary lodgings in a little house at the bottom of the garden at St. Vincent's.
As time went on I began to realize more and more that these people were my brothers, and I said to myself: ‘Some day, somewhere, somehow, I will have a place that these people can call homeIn 1965 she convinced the nuns in Athy to convert the dairy of the convent into a 'drop in' centre, where she could greet her visitors and listen to their troubles.
Consilio, encouraged by the support of her Mother superior, paid a visit to the local bank manager.