Events, Ireland

A four year partnership between Irish building materials company CRH and the Simon Community has raised almost €3 million.

A local Irish cancer charity has secured €20,000 in sponsorship for its fundraising cycle across America.

The Simon Communities of Ireland has launched this year’s Simon Open Door event which offers consultancy from a professional architect in return for a donation to Simon.

The Rehab Foundation’s Great Investment Race, which has raised almost €860,000 for autism, was recently launched in Dublin.

Tiger Woods' marital problems will not stop him attending a major charity golf event in Ireland this summer, according to reports in the Irish Independent.

Money raised for Haiti at a coursing event has been refused by overseas development charity Goal after protests by the Irish Council Against Blood Sports.

A fundraising dinner held at the Manhattan home of Loretta Brennan Glucksman, Chairman of the American Ireland, has raised nearly $400,000 for the Lyric Theatre in Belfast.

A major fundraising campaign has beaten the credit crunch and raised £600,000 for three charities.

In a bid to raise money for charity, the first married couple ever to have climbed Everest have reached the summit.

Five hundred women from north west Ireland are to have a skinny dip to raise money for the Irish Cancer Society.