The Mercy Hospital Foundation fundraiser at the Walter Raleigh hotel last Friday October 15th. was a great success. The event was a fun fundraiser and a fitting tribute to the late Mickey O’Connell from Gurranabraher, Cork. Mickey used spend his weekends amongs friends in Youghal where his gentle disposition and love for life endeared him to all who knew him. On September 19th 2009, Mickey, aged just 61, succumbed to cancer in Cork’s Mercy hospital. Now, through the Mercy Hospital Foundation, the friends whose lives he enriched aim to ensure his untimely passing brings benefit to others whose lives are infringed by the disease.

Admission on the night brought free entry to a raffle in which donated prizes revealed amazing generosity. The array included an i phone 4 (estimated value €700), two LCD televisions, two nights b&b with one evening meal in Ennis, €100 shopping voucher, a petrol lawn mower, a petrol hedge strimmer, dinner for four in Midleton and much more. “People have been exceptionally kind,” said Ger Kenneally from the organising committee, “All our outlays have been sponsored, so every cent we raise goes directly to the Mercy hospital. Mickey himself was a generous man and this is a very fitting way to honour his memory,” he added.

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