The Power to Change : 22 Nov 2007

Transformation is a powerful and evocative word and in Dublin a group of friends have chosen to use it in its most positive sense: the power to change things for the better.

Since 2004, with the assistance and support of The Ireland Funds, the Core group, a “Giving Circle” of twenty friends, family and business associates has sought to change other lives for the better by raising  awareness of and funding to a range of worthwhile causes.

On Thanksgiving Day, the designated evening for their annual fundraising event, three hundred and fifty people gathered at the spectacular Dublin City Hall to celebrate the work of Console an organisation that provides counselling services to those bereaved by suicide.

The monies raised will contribute to the establishment of the first comprehensive Child Psychotherapy Service in Ireland for Children and Young people Bereaved through Suicide.

Entertainment for the evening was provided by the accomplished harpist Seana Davey, the roof-raising Dublin Gospel Choir, Acabella and the inspirational Ms. Frances Black. 

Photos
1. Michael Mulcahy TD, Valerie Ringrose Fitzsimons, Stephan Mulcahy
2. Ruaidhri Dowling, Claire Monahan
3. Sandra Bell, Noeleen Morris
4. Sarah Mitchell, Gavin McCarthy, Lola O’Higgins, Jamie Cahalane
5. The Dublin Gospel Choir
6. Geralding Murphy, Grace Murphy. Brendan and Mary O’Connor
7. Sarah McGuinness, Neil O'Scolai
8. Sean McEnroe, Una O’Dowd
9. Ciaran O’Tiernay, Patricia Brennan
10. Fiona Cox, Noeleen Morris, Amanda Cassidy. Amy Huberman
11. Olwyn Mannix, Deirdre Lemass, Hilary Lemass, Margerite Buckley
12. John Murphy, Paul Kelly, Founder Console, Valerie Ringrose Fitzsimons
13. Mary Claire Markey, Claire Lemass, Core Committee Chair, Marie Gavin
14. Margaret Tierney, John Murphy
15. Marian Fitzgerald, Nancy O’Donnell, Fiona O’Connor
16. Guests
17. Liam Sommerville, Billy Fitzgerald, Laura McGee, Tony Kirwan, Maria Blaney
18. Seana Davey on harp
19. Mary Ruth and Tom Comerford 20. Ready for the Live Auction
21. Frances Black
22. Acabella