Castlebar Rotary celebrates community partnerships
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Mayo Cancer Support Association were presented with a cheque for €2,400 at the Castlebar Rotary Club Community Partnerships event from funds raised by the Tree of Remembrance. Pictured are John Mulroy, president of Castlebar Rotary Club, Rotarian Peter Glynn, Orla Gillespie from Mayo Cancer Support Association, Pat Gallagher, Mayo Cancer Support Association, Rotarian Fiona Beirne and Rotarian Joe Beirne. Photos: Alison LaredoImage 2 of 6
Castlebar Social Services were presented with a cheque for €2,400 at the Castlebar Rotary Club Community Partnerships event from funds raised by the Tree of Remembrance. From left: Rotarian Joe Beirne, John Mulroy, president, Castlebar Rotary Club, Denis Gallagher from Castlebar Social Services, Rotarian Peter Glynn, Councillor Ger Deere, Pat Gallgher, Castlebar Social Services, and Rotarian Fiona Beirne.Image 3 of 6
Mayo Mental Health Association were presented with a cheque for €2,000. From left: Rotarian Paul O'Grady, Rotary club president John Mulroy, Joanne Gibbons, MMHA, Niall Dunne, MMHA, and Rotarian Darragh Loftus.Image 4 of 6
Cancer Fund for Children were presented with a cheque for €10,000, with funds raised from the Rotary golf Am Am. Pictured are Rotarians John McHugh, Breda Gilvarry, president John Mulroy, Paul Kilcourse and Finian Joyce with Mary McHugh Murphy from Cancer Fund for Children.Image 5 of 6
St. Joseph’s Unit from the Sacred Heart Hospital were presented with a cheque for €1,000. Pictured are Aileen Vahey and Helen Walsh, Sacred Heart Hospital, Rotarian Walter Donoghue, Rotary club president John Mulroy, Louise Harty, Sacred Heart Hospital, Rotarian James Murray, Annie Doran, Mayo University Hospital and Rotarian Shane Burke. Photos: Alison LaredoImage 6 of 6
Andrew Doherty from St. Gerald's College, Castlebar, winner of the Youth Leadership Development Programme, pictured at the Castlebar Rotary Club Community Partnerships event with Rotary club president John Mulroy and Rotarians Willie Geraghty, Adrian Gavin and Vivienne Kyne.CASTLEBAR Rotary Club has hosted a community partnerships event where funds raised through its Christmas Tree of Remembrance were presented to local organisations.
Working in partnership the club has helped promote and enhance many projects that bring benefits across all sectors of the community.
As Castlebar Rotary president John Mulroy emphasised: “The main ethos of Rotary is to build a better community for the next generation.”
Said Mr. Mulroy: “As June draws to a close, so too does another successful year at Castlebar Rotary Club.
“We gathered at Garbo’s together with our charity partners to recognise the steps forward we have made together in the areas of autism awareness, child cancer awareness, mental health and stroke awareness and the importance of remembering loved ones that have passed at Christmas time.
“Two areas in particular over the last year, I felt, touched so many people.
“Firstly, the tree of remembrance at Christmas time outside Dunnes Stores. Watching people stopping in their tracks with tears in their eyes coming back to the stand to write the names of loved ones that have passed on a piece of paper to be read out at Mass a few days later, it is certainly something that does help with the healing process of grief.
“The other is the work of Daisy Lodge who assist children and families who have been affected by childhood cancer. I want to recognise the work that Mary McHugh Murphy and her team do in this area. For Mary and her team, this is not just a job, it is a dedicated vocation.”
Continued Mr. Mulroy: “We are also extremely fortunate as a group to be in a position to pass on our skill-sets to a younger generation and leave our community in a better place than we found it. We do this through the mock interviews we engage in with transition year students.
“Professor Paul O'Grady has been our leader on this project and it is truly a rewarding experience.”
He concluded: “The main ethos of Rotary is to build a better community for the next generation.”