Gazette
12 Gazette 4 April 2013
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Irish Cancer Society volunteers Gary Reed and Valerie Abbott tried not to let the dreadful weather on this year’s Daffodil Day dampen their enthusiasm. However, with the society’s main national fundraising event badly affected by the day’s downpours, the society is appealing for online donations to help reach its €3.4 million target.
Hey petal, support Daffodil Day 2013! DEDICATED volunteers supporting the Irish Cancer Society (ICS) were left devastated after a washout day made it hard for them to reach the charity’s fundraising target on Daffodil Day. Despite the heavy rainfall on Friday, March 22, volunteers braved the elements to sell daffodils for the ICS. However, initial indications showed funds being collected from street sellers were significantly lower than on previous years. And so, the ICS is asking all those who would have given to support them on the day to give online donations, instead. It’s not too late to support Daffodil Day and help the society reach its target of €3.4 million. Without a successful Daffodil Day, the society will struggle to continue to provide information, care and support to those with, and affected by, cancer in Ireland services in 2014. You can make a secure donation online at www.cancer.ie, or call 1850 606060 to donate. Alternatively, you can text Daff to 50300 to donate €4, with 100%
of your donation going to the Daffodil Day fund. You can even buy a virtual daffodil on the society’s Facebook page.
fun depression-era party for film fans BONNIE and Clyde, the ultimate gangster-love road movie, is to be screened on Saturday, April 13 at 8pm, and on Sunday, April 14 at 3.30pm, at Film Fatale in the Sugar Club on Lower Leeson Street. Film Fatale is celebrating films from the 1930s with a screening of the cult classic heist film, Bonnie and Clyde, which is based on the true-life exploits of notorious Depression-era bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. The film chronicles the short lives of America’s most infamous criminals, with the screening to be followed by a Dirty Thirties -themed vintage party. Those attending are encouraged to dress the part and come in their best vintage finery, with Bonnie and Clyde as fashion inspirations. Tickets to Film Fatale are €15, while tickets to the Dirty Thirties
party are €5, and are available on the door from 11pm.
be a sport and help support hospices THE Association of Schools’ Unions of Ireland is organising a fundraising event for the Blackrock and Harold’s Cross hospices by celebrating sport in all its forms in a thanksgiving service. This year’s Annual Ecumenical Thanksgiving Service for the Gift of Sport will see Liam Harbison, chief executive of Paralympics Ireland, delivering an address to the congregation. All of the singing at the service will be led by The Belvedere College Chamber Choir. The first such service, supported by the Association of Schools’ Unions, took place in 1949. This will be the 64th such annual sports service, and organisers are hoping a large crowd of all denominations will attend the service in St Ann’s Church, Dawson Street at 7pm on Sunday, April 14. All proceeds from the collection will be donated to the Blackrock and Harold’s Cross hospices.