Back row: Seamus Bourke, Templemore; Martin Bourke, Templemore; Tom Comerford, Knockavilla/Doneskeagh; John Egan, Templemore. Front: Angela Galvin, Templemore; Moira Morrissey, Ballycahill; Biddy Stapleton, Borrisoleigh; Kathleen O’Donnell, Boherlahan/Dualla; Josie Hayes, Two-Mile Borris. Missing from the picture are Phil Bowe, Moyne/Templetuohy, Bridget O’Dea, Loughmore/Castleiney; Majella Walsh, Killenaule/Moyglass; Máirín Egan Byrne, Drom/Inch; Liam McGrath, Holycross; Teresa Bourke, Upperchurch/Drombane and Maria D’Arcy, Borrisokane.

Locals to cycle and walk for Mary’s Meals

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To raise funds for Mary's Meals, Clonmore’s Martin Bourke is undertaking a cycle around mid and north Tipperary, commencing in Templemore on August 7.

He is being accompanied on the 250km journey by Maria D’arcy (Fogarty, Cobbs, Templemore) to raise funds for Mary's Meals, while John Egan is walking with Fr Eamon Kelly, Director of Mary's Meals and others from Thurles to Knock, to arrive there on August 15.

Other similar-type walks are occurring all over Ireland to raise funds to feed and educate some of the world's starving children. Currently, Mary’s Meals are feeding almost 2.5 million children in 17 different countries, stretching from Syria right across Africa and also parts of central America. The cost of feeding a child one meal a day in a place of education for one year is €22.

Of every euro donated, 96 cents reaches the front line. All our volunteers cover their own expenses so 100% of all donations are forwarded to Mary's Meals Ireland. Archbishop Kieran O'Reilly, who has witnessed the work of Mary's Meals in Liberia, is very supportive of our work.

You can help by doing a little fundraiser of your own. If you are interested in any way, please contact John Egan on 087-8158720 or any of the above committee members.

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