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Caroline McDaid and family donate to the Friends of LUH
Caroline McDaid from Glenswilly and friends are pictured presenting a cheque for €1,500 to the Friends of LUH. The money was raised following a Honda run in memory of her late husband, Paddy who passed away a few short years ago. Back row, left to right; Cynthia...
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Letterkenny & District Flower club support the Friends of LUH
Mary Bonner and Geraldine Gibbons are pictured presenting the Friends of LUH with a cheque for €1,300, the proceeds from a recent flower arranging demonstration in the Mount Errigal Hotel in Letterkenny by the Letterkenny & District Flower Club. Allen McCrea, Ivan...
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Doherty family from Carndonagh donate to the Friends of LUH
Kerry Doherty from Carndonagh, along with her mother and children Junior, Poppy and Noah are pictured presenting the Friends of LUH with a cheque for €3,171.45, the proceeds of a recent coffee morning during breast cancer awareness week. Anyone wishing to book a...
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Friends of LUH to benefit from tribute night for the late Ted Ponsonby
The Friends of LUH are the main beneficiaries from the upcoming tribute to the late Ted Ponsonby, which will take place in the Clanree Hotel on Monday night, 6th November, beginning at 8pm. A host of well known names in the music industry will perform on the night,...
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Roy Mooney and family make substantial donation to the Friends
The Friends of LUH wish to express our gratitude to Roy Mooney and his family from Burt for their very generous donation of €1,000. The money was raised at Roy's 90th birthday party recently where invited guests were asked to consider donations to the Friends in lieu...
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Friends of LUH support CEMR emergency response service
The Friends of Letterkenny University Hospital are very glad to support the CRI +ICAL Emergency Medical Response (CEMR) service, a voluntary service driven locally by Dr Gerry Lane, one of 12 volunteer Doctors nationwide and primarily rural. The CEMR was...
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Bizzprint in Letterkenny donates to the Friends of LUH
Paddy Campbell of Bizzprint, Letterkenny is pictured presenting Peter Cutliffe, Chairman of the Friends of LUH with a cheque for €1,000, sponsorship of the Friends bus to St Lukes Hospital in Dublin. Also in the picture is Catherine Campbell, Louise and John from...
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Donation in memory of Brigid Toye, Quigley’s Point
Breeda Lynch (nee Toye) is pictured presenting Peter Cutliffe, Chairman of the Friends of LUH with a cheque for €7,590. The money was presented in memory of the late Mrs Brigid Toye, Quigley's Point, who availed of the Friends bus to St Lukes Hospital in Dublin. The...
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Conor Dorrian and pals run marathon for Friends of LUH
Conor Dorrian and three of his friends Charlie Boyle, Conor Gallen & Gareth Coady are taking part in this years Rome marathon in March as part of a fundraising effort to support the Friends of LUH bus to St Lukes Hospital in Dublin. In 2013 & 2017, Conor was a...
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Annual Christmas fundraising draw Friends of LUH
Staff Nurses Catherine Gallagher & Marina Drummond are pictured drawing the winners of the Friends of LUH annual Christmas draw in 2023. Winners were; 1 - 32 inch smart TV - Kieran Logan, Derry 2 - Christmas Hamper - Pauline Kelly, Glenswilly 3 - Signed football...
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Ford Escort Club and Donegal Motor Club makes donation to the Friends of LUH
Members of the Ireland's Ford Escort Club and Donegal Motor Club presenting the Friends of LUH with a cheque for €4,000, the proceeds of the recent vintage Ford Escort and vintage/classic car rally held on the grounds of the Atlantic Technical University in...
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Crumlish Appliances sponsor Golf Classic
David Crumlish of Crumlish Appliances, Ballyraine, Letterkenny presents Fergal Doherty & Peter Cutliffe with a sponsorship cheque for the upcoming Golf Classic in Ballybofey & Stranrolar GC on the 1st July. Crumlish Appliances is the main sponsor. Anyone...
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Our Focus
Our Focus
This voluntary organisation, which was granted charitable status in 1995, has four main objectives:
to raise funds via charitable donations/fundraising to provide seed capital for the development of new services in LUH, secondly to facilitate voluntary work to augment ordinary hospital services, thirdly to respond to ad hoc requests from wards for assistance and finally to fund bus to transport patients from LUH to St Lukes Hospital in Dublin to receive radiotherapy treatment. The Friends have been responsible for raising in excess of €7 million from membership fees, donations, church gate collections and various fund-raising events throughout the North West since 1992.
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Letterkenny University Hospital,
Letterkenny,
County Donegal,
Ireland
Tel: (074)91 04466/91 23501
GPS: 54.955839,-7.734279
Email: info@thefriends.ie
Website: www.thefriends.ie
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