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Kilkenny’s early risers asked to support Pieta House’s sunrise appeal

By Kilkenny Now 8th May 2020 0

The good people of Kilkenny are being asked to get up at the dawn on Saturday to help raise funds for Pieta House. The annual dawn walk Darkness Into Light, the main annual fundraiser for the suicide  charity, cannot take place as normal because of the Covid-19 restrictions. Instead, people are being asked to take […]

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First Darkness into Light walk in Inistioge raises €13,327 for charity

By Kilkenny Now 29th June 2019 0

THE brave volunteers who rose at dawn to walk from Darkness into Light in Inistioge recently raised over €13,000 for Pieta House, the suicide and mental health awareness charity. It was the first Darkness into Light walk in the picturesque South Kilkenny village, and it was such a success that organisers are already planning for […]

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Thousands walk from Darkness into Light in Kilkenny and Inistioge

By Kilkenny Now 11th May 2019 0

RECORD numbers of people from Kilkenny walked from ‘Darkness Into Light’ this morning. Before dawn they came, marching in their thousands in Kilkenny city and Inistioge, which was hosting its very first charity walk in aid of Pieta House. They came together at 4.15am, an army of yellow tee-shirted walkers doing their bit to raise […]

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Record numbers in Kilkenny to walk from ‘Darkness Into Light’ this year

By Kilkenny Now 13th April 2019 0

A RECORD number of people from Kilkenny are expected to walk from ‘Darkness Into Light’ this year. The ground-breaking Irish charity walk, which now takes place in cities across the globe, including Hong Kong and Dubai, returns for its tenth year on Saturday, May 11. Last year 2,984 people rose at dawn to take part […]

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Inistioge walks from ‘Darkness into Light’

By Kilkenny Now 2nd February 2019 0

INISTIOGE is to host its very own ‘Darkness into Light’ walk. The picturesque south Kilkenny village will be the venue for the charity walk to raise money for Pieta House. The walk will take place on May 11. Online registration will begin later this month, the local website Inistioge.ie confirmed this week. Pieta House has […]