Big plans afoot to transform Darkness Into Light in town
Businesses being urged to light up in yellow for DIL 2016
THERE’S only going to be one colour in Listowel come Saturday next, April 30, as the town prepares to go yellow in an act of vital awareness-raising ahead of this year’s Darkness Into Light.
Thousands took part in the inaugural Listowel event last year in one of the single biggest DIL walks in the entire country.
This year, organisers are sounding the cry once more in aid of the Pieta House charity - one of Ireland’s most important mental health services.
The DIL walk takes place on Saturday, May 7, in Listowel; leaving at 4.15am from the Island, on a 5km-circuit back to the Racecourse again.
But first, it is hoped traders will do their part to get the message out there with a splash of yellow on Saturday..
“Our idea basically is that we are turning Listowel Yellow!” organiser Cora O’Brien said.
“We are asking traders and publicans to wear their darkness into light tshirts on Saturday, April 30, next at work and as well as this we are asking that they put a candle on their window to symbolise HOPE,” Cora explained.
“We are asking residents to do the same with the candle on the window!”
It’s hoped businesses with yellow lights will light up again on May 7: “In order to turn the town yellow on the night, as many premises that have outside lighting will hopefully light-up.”
It’s an act to get the whole community involved as it is the whole community, Pieta House supports. You can register for the 2016 DIL Listowel at Lawlors cake shop, 35 Church St, every Saturday from 11am to 5pm or simply go on-line at dil.pieta.ie