Listening to Charlie Birds story these past few weeks has brought back a lot of pain and anguish for my family. As a lot of you may know, my mammy Winnie Callaghan was diagnosed with MND almost five years ago. From the short six months from diagnosis to her passing, which felt like a lifetime, we as a family have dealt with this cruel, nightmare disease with strength and support from friends and family whilst also still not believing that this has happened. Even after these past few years, it doesn’t get any easier, we are still trying to wrap our heads around MND. Thinking back on all the fond memories of mum as an outgoing, loving and devoted person to her family and her community really gives us pride and the drive to keep going. Experiencing first hand, the devastation of MND which is experienced by the person themselves and their families, we, through the Climb with Charlie fundraiser would like to give our help in supporting these families. This is truly a worthy cause to help and fund the research to find the cure to this cruel disease. It is not possible for everyone to climb mountains so we have decided to organise our own Climb with Charlie by doing a walk from the Crossroads parochial hall, around the back of the wall (Mounthall) and back to the parochial hall on the 2nd of April at 2:30pm with refreshments afterwards. More details to follow in the coming weeks.

We hope that anybody who can, will come out and support the Climb with Charlie fund but also to remember Winnie. Lovingly missed by Tommy, Tim, Cathy, James, Louise and the Scanlon/ Callaghan families.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my fundraising page on iDonate.ie. I'm taking part in Climb With Charlie. All funds raised here will go directly to Pieta and Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association (IMNDA).

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Thank you so much.

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