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A BIG THANK YOU to Pat Walsh and Ben Costello and all who assisted Pat raising an amazing €25,548 from his Golf Classic and Table Quiz held on 31st August/1st September 2012 at East Clare Golf Club.Read more

The 7th Annual Anne Valley 5-mile Challenge will take place on Saturday 9th February in Dunhill – Runners and walkers asked to step right up and register as their New Year’s Resolution! Busy mother of three, Tricia Quinn from Dunhill is asking people in Munster and beyond to make their new year’s resolution early by registeringRead more

Over 500 people have now attended the model railway exhibition at Molloys Supermarket in Roscommon and helped to raise funds for the Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation! Last weekend the exhibition attracted men, woman and children from as far away as Maynooth in county Kildare and Ballyhaunis. “We have received a tremendous response from theRead more

Sarah and Marty Gibson from Newcastle talk about what life is like with baby Martin, who is supported by Jack & Jill nursing hours. Big thank you to Denice McNamara and Mark Cagney from Ireland AM and of course to the Gibson family for sharing their story. One of 300 families supported by Jack &Read more

The Maynooth Students for Charity opened registration for this iconic fundraising charity cycle at the official launch at the NUI campus in Maynooth and Jack & Jill are absolutely delighted and indeed very honoured to be the beneficiary charity for the 2013 event on 22nd-24th March. Joined by the winner of RTE’s The Voice ofRead more

If you want to experience stillness breathing inside out, then turn the pages and Feel it! Sink into a book filled with captured photographic moments, quotes and poems that draw you into the stillness of life – its very essence. There is also writing on creativity, a moment of stillness and soul writing. Artists will find this bookRead more

Following the success of the 2008 album, “Under the Stars” by Dublin’s Sunflow, Philly-born and long-term-Ireland-based Nancy Falkow, who honed her trade touring the US and sharing stages with Daniel Lanois, Patty Griffin, Donovan and Sarah McLachlan to name a few, has emerged from the hibernation of early motherhood with a new delivery: ‘What I’mRead more

Two battle worn Munster jerseys up for auction on Ebay with final bids next Tuesday 18th December, with all proceeds going to the Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation! Munster and Irish rugby fans should check out two very special listings on Ebay for two squad signed, match worn, battle scarred Munster rugby jerseys that theyRead more

Happy Faces Day 2013 is now officially launched! This is the second year IPPA (Irish Professional Photographers in Ireland) in association with Canon supports Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation through this fantastic national fundraising project! 100% of all the costs are absorbed by the IPPA participant photographers with 100% of the proceeds going to Jack & Jill!Read more

I had the very great honour of being chosen as one of the volunteers to work on your recent camp at Barretstown. I felt that I had to express what a fabulous experience this proved to be and how wonderful all the families and children were. I would like to thank Jonathan Irwin for hisRead more