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Pals of tragic Kilkenny teen run 1,000km to raise €25,000 for mental health charity

By Kilkenny Now 23rd March 2021 0

A group of young men who set out to honour their friend who tragically died last year have just completed 1,000kms of combined running. The 10 students from Carrick-on-Suir’s Edmund Rice Secondary School have raised close to €25,000 in their ‘Run4Rian’ challenge, with all monies raised going to Pieta house. The group of friends hail […]

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Fantastic friends: Pals of tragic Kilkenny teen raise €20,000 through charity run

By Kilkenny Now 23rd February 2021 0

A group of young men who tragically lost one of their best friends, a young, talented and popular Kilkenny teen, late last year, have raised almost €20,000 for a mental health charity in his memory . The 10 students at Carrick-on-Suir’s Edmund Rice Secondary School are taking part in the ‘Run4Rian, where they will run […]

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Kilkenny girls who founded mental health group win prestigious national award

By Kilkenny Now 21st December 2020 0

Two young Kilkenny girls who set up a suicide awareness group have won a prestigious national award. Holly Farrell and Laura Delaney from Ballyragget, the founding members of the Light Up the Night Kilkenny Truck & Tractor Run, were named winners of the group award at the Garda National Youth Awards 2020 yesterday evening. Holly […]

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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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On your marks, get set … for the Kilkenny Medieval Mile Run

By Kilkenny Now 28th November 2019 0

The sound of thousands of pairs of feet pounding the pavements will reverberate around Kilkenny city this week as the starting gun is fired on Medieval Mile Run. The run – a one mile dash through the historic streets of Kilkenny city – has already established itself has a firm favourite of the Yulefest Kilkenny […]

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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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Wheels of justice – 60 Dublin-based gardai roll into Kilkenny city-centre

By Kilkenny Now 13th June 2019 Post a comment

KILKENNY will turn blue today as 60 gardai roll into town after setting off from Dublin on a charity cycle. The ‘H’ District social cycle will see the 60 officers, all from stations in capital, set off on a 140km spin starting at Ballymun Garda station and finishing in Kilkenny city-centre. The boys and girls […]

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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 […]