Four Darkness Into Light walks in county this year
FOUR Darkness Into Light walks will take place in County Wexford this year: in Wexford, New Ross, Enniscorthy and Courtown.
The flagship fundraising event for the Pieta House charity takes place on May 12 with walks starting at 4.15 a.m. around Ireland and across the globe.
Organising committees of the four Wexford walks, and representatives of Pieta House in Wexford and Waterford attended the County Wexford Darkness Into Light 2018 launch in the Dunbrody Centre, New Ross, Thousands turned out in Wexford last year and Ger Tobin of the New Ross organising committee said each of the four areas hopes to see an increase in participants in 2018 to help raise even more money for Pieta Hosue.
‘There was a great atmosphere at the launch last week and the Electric Ireland representative, Kevin Ryan, said it was one of the best launches he had ever been at,’ Ger told this newspaper.
‘We made a big effort to dress the room and had lots of tea lights which Pieta House provided. Paula Fox had specially designed chocolate bars.
The Dunbrody Visitor Centre were very kind and gave us the room which provided fantastic views making the evening very special.’
Brian Higgins, the CEO of Pieta House, spoke at the launch about the services Pieta House provides. He thanked Electric Ireland for their sponsorship of the Darkness Into Light fundraiser which now takes place at 180 venues around the world and involves over 180,000 people walking in support of suicide prevention.
‘Darkness Into Light has replaced the stigma of suicide with acceptance. When you speak about suicide and take it out of the shadows you defeat it,’ he said.