Click on the arrows to go through the photos by Clive Wasson It may not have been revealed in the way it was intended – a technical hitch preventing Daniel O’Donnell from announcing it on screen – but the singer and patron nevertheless got the inspiring message across, over €150,000 raised as a result of this year’s Relay for Life. A huge attendance, made up of team members, survivors, carers, volunteers and committee personnel, gathered in the Mount Errigal Hotel on Monday night to hear the final total and celebrate the achievements of so many in getting there. This was an occasion to forcibly remind cancer that it’s in a fight – with organisations like Relay for Life Donegal to the forefront in aiming to win it. As in keeping with the Relay event itself, staged in May, it was also an occasion for music and merriment, and much laughter and emotion. To get proceedings underway, the Ukulele Orchestra performed ‘Don’t Fence Me In” and ‘Sloop John B.” Immediately following that, Elbow room became limited when the Survivors Choir – Donal Kavanagh with a foot in both camps – took to the same stage for a stirring rendition of ‘One Day Like This’. “You were made for bigger audiences”, Relay chairperson, Seamus Devine advised the singers and musicians. Donal, meanwhile, paid tribute to the five members of the choir who had passed away including Corinne, Bernard, John, Astrid and Sean. One night like this was, due to the main theme involved, going to render contrasting emotions away from the music and the mirth. Long serving Relay committee member, Ena Barrett, told the huge attendance of teams, survivors and volunteers, that 2024 had been a particularly poignant one for her. She had gone through the cancer journey some seventeen years previously and revealed: “I got a gentle reminder that cancer can and does come back.” Later in the night, the prestigious Gordy Klatt award – the father of Relay as Ena indicated – was presented to Stranorlar woman, Eileen Tourish, who
In pictures: Music and merriment as amazing €150,000 confirmed by Relay for Life
A huge attendance, made up of team members, survivors, carers, volunteers and committee personnel, gathered in the Mount Errigal Hotel on Monday night to hear the final total and celebrate the achievements of so many in getting there
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