Fundraiser in aid of MND

JUST over €3,200 has been raised in Macroom towards a hugely successful national fundraiser, Walk While You Can, in aid of the Motor Neurone Disease Association and Research Motor Neurone.

A cheque presentation will be made next week by Nora (O’Connell) Casey. Nora previously told The Corkman that she was so taken by the plight of motor neurone sufferer, Fr Tony Coote, that she felt she had to do something.

Fr Coote is regarded as an extremely charismatic priest in Dublin’s Mount Merrion parish and he was diagnosed with MND in March last year.

He then decided to raise awareness and funds for sufferers by walking the length of Ireland.

He was determined to turn his experience into a “positive force for future generations of MND suffers” and so came up with the idea of walking 535 kilometres under the banner, ‘Walk While You Can’.

He began the walk in Letterkenny in Donegal on July 10 and it all ended on August 6 in Ballydehob in West Cork. The effort has, to date, raised over €450,000.

In Macroom, a cheque for €3,210 will be presented on Saturday, February 23, at Murray’s Hall, Railway View at 8pm.