By Donal O’Keeffe / ECHO Live

Every year for the past decade or so, the volunteers at Cork Penny Dinners have held a memorial walk in memory of John Cunningham, raising funds for good causes in his name.

A sponsored climb of Ireland’s highest mountain will attempt to raise funds to help veterans of the Defence Forces who have fallen on hard times.

Every year for the past decade or so, the volunteers at Cork Penny Dinners have held a memorial walk in memory of John Cunningham, raising funds for good causes in his name.

Mr Cunningham was a kind, jovial man who died in 2005 at the tragically young age of 39.

Every year since his passing, his friends have remembered him by raising money for charity in his name.

Penny Dinners volunteer Dave Feeney is a stalwart of the memorial walk, and this year he and his fellow volunteers will climb Ireland’s highest mountain, Carrauntoohil, to raise funds for the Organisation of National Ex-Service Personnel (ONE).

“We’re up and down Carrauntoohil three and four times a year with different groups, raising money for cancer, and sepsis, and suicide awareness and prevention is probably the main one,” said Mr Feeney.

You can donate here: https://oneconnect.enthuse.com/cp/5344d/fundraiser#!/

ONE supports the needs of Irish veterans by the provision of accommodation to homeless veterans and the provision of other advice and support through its nationwide network of Branches and Veteran Support Centres.

Read here: https://www.echolive.ie/corknews/arid-41184022.html

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