Brain Tumour Ireland News
We are delighted to be back with in person events and would be delighted to include you in the Brain Tumour Ireland team for this year’s event, which takes place on SUNDAY 5th June at 2pm.
We will be in D2 Bar , Harcourt St on the day to mind your bags and provide some well deserved post-race refreshments and nibbles!
By joining the Brain Tumour Ireland team you will be helping to fund brain tumour research as well as our work in supporting brain tumour patients and their families.
It’s easy to sign up! Follow the simple three step process here: https://braintumourireland.com/vhi-womens-mini-marathon/
We are giving away a free pair of ASICS runners to one very lucky Brain Tumour Ireland Women’s Mini Marathon participant… to WIN, simply just enter the marathon as a participant for Brain Tumour Ireland, share (proof) that you’ve entered across your social media channels with us tagged, and you’ll be in with a chance to WIN!
All BTI WMM entries registered to date are eligible to win. You will collect your free pair of runners on the day at our base in DTwo on Harcourt street! (The winner will be contacted after the competition closes on the 28th May 2022 where shoe size etc information will be requested.)
Also please note we have a list populated from registration of those running on behalf of BTI and as such will have your entry and contact details noted to contact you!
So come on everybody! Let’s get those runners on, and help make this an even bigger event than last year. We do hope you will join us and we look forward to seeing you on the 5th of June!
Christmas in June, a fundraising event by Barbara Dowling.
Event Date: 26th June 2022
My name is Barbara Dowling and I am putting together an exceptionally large choir for a fundraising and awareness concert for Brain Tumour Ireland.
This concert will be held in the WIT arena in Waterford on June 26th 2022. The choir will be accompanied by an orchestra of 200+ who will be traveling from all over Ireland, Europe, Great Britain and the USA in order to participate, all at their own expense.
This concert will be quite unusual as it will be a full programme of Christmas music (yes in June!), but the majority of the arrangements are pieces that have never been performed here before. The Orchestral and Choral aspects of the production will be spearheaded by Liam Daly, Dr. Kevin O’ Carroll, Niall Crowley and Éimear Noone.
All of the monies raised through ticket sales are going directly to Brain Tumour Ireland (CHY20506). This will not be an event where 3/4’s of the funds raised are going to cover expenses.. all funds are for the charity.
I really hope that you will be willing to give your time to enjoy this… just think of all the reacquainting that will happen, the craic and probably the bedlam that will be involved!!
A brief explanation behind the reasoning of this project:
Within 48 hours in July of 2019, I was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour, multiple sclerosis and thyroid cancer. It’s taken a while to get things sorted but it’s getting there! The tumour will stay where it is, a slow growing one that will eventually turn cancerous. The MS will be treated shortly now that the radioactive iodine treatment is finished and I’m delighted to say that I am now cancer-free! I’m lucky as the form of MS that I have is called relapsing-remitting MS and can be stopped from progressing once the treatment starts. It won’t fix the current issues but may ease them (which basically for me means I may get my full sight back, get full power back to the arms, fingers and legs, say goodbye to the tremors in the hands and best of all, some bit of balance so I don’t walk like the one that’s been on the bottle since early morning!
Throughout all this, I came in contact with an organisation called Brain Tumour Ireland (BTI) who have been unreal. There to steer you in the direction of help and advice, random check-ins just to make sure you’re doing ok and mostly not in your face but yet ever-present with support.
Why do I want to do this concert in June?
Simply because not everyone can wait for Christmas….
Tickets for this event go on sale from the 26th February via this link , tickets cost €25, included in ticket price is a glass of Mulled wine or a Hot Chocolate.
Doors open at 6.30 for a 7.30pm start. There will be plenty to see, hear and explore before entering the auditorium.
Thank you for your interest, support and we look forward to welcoming you to our Christmas in June event!
Our annual Remembrance Service will take place online this year on Sunday, 28th of November at 4.30pm.
It is a non-denominational service for people who have lost a loved one due to a brain tumour.
To join us for this online service please contact info@braintumourireland.com. In order to receive your special remembrance gift pack in the post on time, please register by 22nd of November latest.
It was great to see so many hat selfies being shared online on Wear A Hat Day. Here is a sample of the fantastic hats. For more, check out our social media.
Thank you to everyone who donated to our working in supporting brain tumour patients and their families. You can still donate €4 by texting BTI to 50300, or for more ways to donate, please see here.
Congratulations to our #WearAHatDay winners! Winner of the beautiful Lina Stein hat for overall best selfie and for being a great advocate for the brain tumour community is @worth_fighting4. Additional prizes for these other great hat pics go to @dmuid, @naionra_na_nog, @alannahandpolly and @therailwaybarbundoran. Thanks to everyone for taking part and helping to raise awareness and funds on #WearAHatDay. Huge thanks also to Lina Stein for judging the competition as well as all her wonderful support this week, including the generous donation of this beautiful hat, and the fantastic fascinator workshop for some of our front line heroes!
Brain Tumour Awareness Week 2021 takes place from Saturday 30th October – Saturday 6th November.
Entries cost €20 and we have a beautiful finisher’s medal for you as a souvenir of the event.
Our event forms part of “Walk Around the World for Brain Tumours”, a project co-ordinated by the International Brain Tumour Alliance (IBTA). https://theibta.org/awareness-raising/#one We will donate the mileage covered to the IBTA’s “World Walk” target of circling the earth to raise awareness of brain tumours globally.
To help contribute to the mileage and donate to the work of Brain Tumour Ireland, we hope you will join us for this year’s virtual event!
Dublin City University’s School of Nursing, Psychotherapy and Community Health is collaborating with Children in Hospital Ireland on a study to identify parents’ experiences of restricted visiting during their child’s hospital admission during the Covid-19 Pandemic.
They are aiming to understand parental experiences of restricted visiting during their child’s (0-18 years) hospitalisation at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ireland, and to understand the impact these restrictions had on the parents themselves, on their child who was hospitalised and on their extended family (including siblings).
We encourage any families who might have been impacted during the Covid-19 Pandemic to take this short survey. It will take 10-15 minutes to complete and you can access it here.
National Carers’ Week event via Zoom
Join us for an online coffee morning and information session on Saturday 12th June @ 11am, aimed at the family, friends and carers of brain tumour patients.
As part of National Carers’ Week 2021 we are holding our annual event to show appreciation for all the work undertaken by the many wonderful carers in the brain tumour community.
The event will feature talks from Niamh Connolly, Cognitive Behavioural Therapist; and Marian Mahon, who has a wealth of experience in the area of carers’ rights, having spent many years working for Family Carers Ireland.
Register for this free event by emailing info@braintumourireland.com and we will send out your Coffee Morning Gift Box (please register by June 3rd to receive it ahead of the event).
The Ronnie Fehily Foundation CHY20506. Founded in 2012 by a small group of people caring for a family member who was sadly lost to a Brain Tumour.
