MARCH 2008

Grand Canyon Walk for Charity

Carndonagh's Cormac Skinnader and Fahan resident Martina Blake are travelling to Arizona as part of a 125 strong group of Irish people on the 19th March to undertake a ten day charity walk to raise funds for the Irish Wheelchair Association.

In Arizona the Irish party will walk the red rock trails of Sedona National Park and traverse the Painted Desert before moving on to the Grand Canyon. The group will cover ten miles a day and finish up in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Cormac, the Carndonagh GAA club PRO, said he was well on his way to raising the €5,000 target after holding a number of fundraisers in the last couple of months. "On St. Stephen's Day the Carn club have an annual charity match and this year they very generously gave me the €950 they collected. €750 was raised from a quiz in the Glen Bar and another quiz was held in Tully's Bar, as well as an indoor GAA tournament in Malin."

Martina Blake has already exceeded her target. "I asked everyone I knew to sponsor me and my policy of harassment paid off," she joked. "Donegal has one of the highest rates of people who've become wheelchair bound after accidents on the road and I think it's great to be going out with relatives of those who are confined to a wheelchair," she said.

Visit the Irish Wheelchair website www.iwa.ie

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