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Later this year, a group of young people from Carrickmore – all of them young but some of them younger - will embark on a challenging fund raising venture when they take on what amounts to 10 marathons in 10 days. On 10th July they will leave Cork City centre on foot, with ten days to complete their trek to Carrickmore.
The trip is a repeat of one completed two decades ago and three of that group Sean Kerr, Dan Hughes and Kieran Hurson are among the eighteen that will undertake this year’s “long march”.
The purpose of the endeavour is to raise funds for local cancer charities which include Marie Curie Cancer Care and Macmillan Cancer Support.
Each one of the group are well into their personal fitness regimes and despite the inclement weather hi viz jackets are much in evidence on the highways and byways of mid Tyrone. Fund raising started on the 1st January and already in excess of £10,000 has been pledged. All expenses of the walk will be covered by sponsors, so every penny or cent collected will go to the nominated charities.
Pictured are the guests who gave up their time to help launch the walk in the Glenavon Hotel, Cookstown this week, Mickey Harte, Conor Gormley, Brian Dooher, Peter Canavan and Ulster's Rugby star David Pollock.