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Thanks to the shouting match that is social media today, we also now forget that there are real people out there beyond our screens, people who made a real difference in the world – who were inspired, and who
There’s more than a small chance that Caroline would have been over the moon at such sweet humongous-scale silliness. This was a woman who never lost her childlike wonder, something that was plainly apparent to all
What’s important to realise though is that Caroline would have grown up blissfully unaware of the kind of legacy that she would leave behind, oblivious to the good work that would be carried on in her name. She was just too busy living a good life, from trekking off to the town’s Patrick’s Day Parade with her trusty recorder, and trusty younger brother, Denis [left, 1988], to holding the 2012 Olympic Torch in London [top, right], from swimming with dolphins in Florida or teaching schoolchildren in Uganda to following her passion for acting in the likes of Dancing At Lughnasa and Three Sisters, heading to yet another beloved art museum with dad, Dermod, or just
It’s only now, almost five years after that tragic passing, and with World Cancer Day arriving February 4th – the day that would have been Caroline’s 40th birthday – that the
That The Caroline Foundation has raised over €600,000 for cancer research is remarkable. And they’ll be hoping to raise a whole new chunk of change with this year’s Give Us A Song weekend at the beginning of February. Having launched with a song-song or two at Pearse Station earlier this month, once again, the Caroline gang want to teach
“Caroline participated in every clinical trial she could,” says Dermod, “which, in our view,
It was in June 2004, as Caroline and her then boyfriend, Ronán, were getting ready for a
Sadly, the cancer returned, aggressively, and this time the new drug deemed to have the best chance of success, T-DMI, was only available at the Karmanos Institute in Detroit. And so it was that, every three weeks,
Setting up The Caroline Foundation with friends and some patients of the Cancer
Giving themselves the target of raising €1m for the CCRT within the next two
Hands, Touching Hands…
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