Nobber Vintage Club presentation to Irish Cancer Society, from left.. Darren Kellet, Margaret Murphy, Derek Gaffney, Maura Duffy and Dermot McCormack.

Fundraisers hand over Nobber Fair Day proceeds

Published: Wed 14 Jul 2010, 4:41 PM

The Nobber Vintage Club presented a total of €18,125 to local groups recently - the proceeds of the Nobber Fair Day last May. The presentation took place in Nobber Community Hall and the €18,125 raised was donated to local groups in Nobber and surrounding areas. Dermot McCormack, chairman of Nobber Vintage Club, announced the amounts of money given to different local groups. He thanked the Nobber Vintage Club Committee, and all the different local groups and businesses, for all the work done in preparing for the Fair Day held in May and the work done in ensuring the day went smoothly. Some €4,000 was donated to the Irish Cancer Society and this was accepted by nurses Maura Duffy and Margaret Murphy. It will go towards paying night nurses who undertake care in the home of terminally-ill cancer patients. Maura Duffy said the Irish Cancer Society Night Nurses give end-of-life care to terminally ill patients of cancer, motor neurone disease and multiple sclerosis. A further €2,000 was donated to Electro Celtic Football Club, €2,000 was also given to the parents' association of Nobber Primary School, and €1,500 to the Autism Centre at O'Carolan College, while €1,500 was given to Navan Employment Options which will go towards its programme of activities. Nobber Community Hall Committee received €1,000 and the same amount went to the Nobber Parish Pastoral Committee. The Adult Reading Project, based in O'Carolan College, was the recipient of €500 while the Tidy Towns committees of Castletown and Drumconrath each received €500. A sum of €500 was also given to to Nobber Pride of Place and the Nobber branch of the Irish Red Cross. Nobber Primary School teacher, Sinead Broderick, who was in Kenya during the summer to carry out voluntary work teaching in an orphanage there, received €500. Nobber Friendship Club received €250 and the local Gaeltacht Scholarships Scheme received the same amount. Some €260 was donated to the North-East MS Centre. The vintage club also sponsored jerseys, bags and jackets for the under-eight and under-10 Nobber GFC Juvenile Football teams to the tune of €1,000.