We are extremely grateful for the continued support of Stryker with their annual 4 Mile Road Race. Due to COVID-19 they were unable to hold the race back in April. For more details and to support their Virtual 4 Mile Road Race please visit Stryker 4 Mile Road Race
Many thanks to Rachel Martin who will run 100km and her father Richard who will cycle 1,000km (within the 5km permitted exercise radius) during the month of November to raise funds for the Stroke Unit. Cork University Hospital has the busiest Inpatient Stroke Service in Ireland and our Stroke Unit Appeal is raising funds for [...]
We are very grateful to Slimming World Frankfield, Grange and Douglas members for supporting our fundraising campaign for a game-changing cancer sequencing machine at CUH by walking or running in the Echo Virtual Women's Mini Marathon. Thank you so much for your support. This groundbreaking machine will give clinicians greater capability to identify personalised targeted [...]
The Irish Examiner Stroke Awareness Week will run from September 5th- 11th. As part of the awareness week, which is in association with CUH Charity and Pfizer, a special 'Let’s Talk Stroke Awareness' booklet (free with the Irish Examiner on September 5th) has been produced which includes information about the main causes and effects of [...]
We are very grateful to Fitzpatrick's Shop, Glounthaune who will be donating funds raised from the sale of their children's activity book 'My Creativity Book' to the Children's Unit. Fitzpatrick's came up with the idea of the book during lockdown and it's packed full of great fun activities including colouring, word searches, spot the difference, [...]
Many thanks to Cuddihy’s Daybreak, Grange, Ovens for organising a Triathlon fundraiser that raised €4,742.62 for the Intensive Care Unit. We are very grateful to you and to everyone who supported the event.
In memory of Jack McGrath, his cousin Tom O'Connell organised the Track for Jack Fun Walk on the Waterford Greenway in February as part of his TY enterprise project and to raise funds for the ICU, ED and the Chaplaincy.There was wonderful support for the walk with almost 600 walkers and an incredible €31,594.51 was [...]
The Echo Women's Mini Marathon and organisers Cork Athletics have announced that this year's event will take place as a virtual offering on 20th September. The event will be free to register. It’s 6km and you can complete that by walking, running or jogging, adhering to all government guidelines regarding public safety and social distancing. [...]
The 'Strike Against Stroke' campaign which saw 400 Apple employees run, walk or cycle for up to 30 minutes per day for 30 days during the month of June raised over €100,000 for our Stroke Unit Appeal. This incredible support by Apple and its employees is hugely appreciated. Funds raised will go towards our appeal [...]
Heroic 8-year-old Oliver Lynch completed his 5k fundraising walk on Friday 3rd July in Ballincollig cheered on by family and friends. He was also joined by newly elected Lord Mayor of Cork, Cllr Joe Kavanagh and the Lady Mayoress Stephanie Kavanagh, gardaí, members of Cork City Fire Service and the National Ambulance Service’s bike-mounted paramedics [...]
