The late Mairead Browne nee Nolan, Church Street , Castleisland lost a long battle with illness on May 13th 2024.
Some six months later her family members turned their thoughts to an appropriate memorial on a day which would include a 5km walk on Saturday October 12th.
The walk, they planned, would start out at 10am from the library car park on a route designed to take in Church Street and pass by Mairead’s door at number 19.
Of Benefit to Kerry Hospice Foundation
And, importantly to them all, it would benefit the plans and work of the Kerry Hospice Foundation.
The plans worked and the walk was a great success. That night from 9pm they gathered in Browne’s Bar where they organised fundraising activities like head shaving and a raffle and music with DJ Mike Hayes.
Mairéad’s sons Billy J. and Matthew Browne joined up with their cousins the Fitzgeralds from Currow in the planning of the day.
Palliative Care Unit
They made sponsorship cards easily accessible throughout the town with the promise that all funds raised would go to the Palliative Care Unit at UHK in recognition of the wonderful care Mairéad received during her time there.
The Browne, Fitzgerald and Nolan families took their gratitude to another level – in that the proceeds of that long, magical, poignant harvest day of October 12-2024 yielded €17,154,00.
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