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Irish NGOs Welcome Repayment

Hans Zomer

Hans Zomer

Irish NGOs welcome the announcement by the Tánaiste that the €4 million of aid money that was misappropriated by officials in the Ugandan prime minister’s office last year has been paid back. [Read more…]

Tricia McCarthy Memorial Scholarship

Tricia McCarthy Memorial Scholarship

Tricia McCarthy Memorial Scholarship

The many fundraising initiatives by House of Fraser in support of the National Breast Cancer Research Institute (NBCRI) in recent months have lead to the formation of a new scholarship at the Institute, ‘The Tricia McCarthy Memorial Scholarship’. Over the last eighteen months House of Fraser raised an incredible €25,000 for the breast cancer charity at their Dundrum store. The Scholarship is named after Tricia McCarthy, sister of well-known beauty writer Triona McCarthy who has become a champion for NBCRI since her sister was diagnosed with the disease in 2007. [Read more…]

Street Exhibition Raises €5000

Sculptor Paddy Campbell's Christmas Street Exhibition

Sculptor Paddy Campbell's Christmas Street Exhibition

Money raised will buy 8 CoaguChek machines, changing the lives of 8 families.

Wednesday 18th January 2012: Sculptor Paddy Campbell’s Christmas Street Exhibition in Bewley’s Grafton Street has raised €5080 through public donations for the charity Heart Children Ireland. The money raised will enable Heart Children Ireland to buy eight CoaguChek machines, changing the lives of eight families across Ireland. [Read more…]

YourellsT in Aid Of Crumlin Hospital

Yourells Charity

Yourells Charity

On Tuesday 23rd August from 5pm, Yourells Hair Salon on Eyre Street will be transformed into a child- friendly zone, as Yourells host a kids evening all in aid of Crumlin Children’s Hospital where a hair styling for the salon’s younger clientele will be made priority. [Read more…]

Celebrity Trek for Crumlin on RTE

 

Celebrity Trek for Crumlin

Celebrity Trek for Crumlin

Ireland’s best known personalities scale Kilimanjaro to raise money for Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin

A documentary following eight of Ireland’s best known personalities as they undertake the challenge of a lifetime to reach the top of Kilimanjaro in aid of Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin will air on RTE 1 on Monday 18th July at 9:30pm. [Read more…]

Third Dip in the Nip Launched

3rd Dip in the Nip

3rd Dip in the Nip

The third ‘Dip in the Nip’ will take place on a beach in the northwest of Ireland on Saturday 25th June. This innovative fundraiser was the brainchild of Sligo woman Máire Garvey, who came up with the idea of a small sponsored all-female skinny dip, in 2009, in order to raise money for the Irish Cancer Society. [Read more…]