Emotions were high, as friends and family of the late Aaron Lundy, gathered for a special memorial fundraiser at Portstewart Golf Club on Friday. Last month, Times Sport exclusively revealed that the special golf day would take place to honour Aaron and raise funds for CRY – Cardiac Risk in the Young. Aaron, who was a keen
Congratulations and a huge “thank you” to all who took part in the BUPA Great North Run in aid of CRY on Sunday 20th September 2009. This year we had a record 80 runners amongst the 54,000 participants, including CRY Patron and former England Rugby Union International, Simon Halliday (below). It was an emotional day for
18th & 19th September 2009 On 17th July 2008, our ‘baby’ brother, Simon McNamara, died suddenly, at the age of 25, while on holiday with his friends in Croatia. The cause of his death was an acute arrhythmia attack (we don’t know what caused/triggered it). Simon was young, fit and healthy. Just weeks before he died,
18th September 2009 In memory of Aaron Lundy, three members of the 1996 Ulster Boys team in which Aaron played, battled it out in a Skins game around the fine links course of Portstewart Golf Club to raise money for the Aaron Lundy Memorial Fund in aid of CRY. The players participating in the event included
A quiz and supper night was held in Rolleston Village Hall on Saturday 5th September to raise funds for, and awareness of Cardiac Risk in the Young – CRY. Our son Simon was just 25 years old when he died while on holiday in Croatia last year, of a sudden cardiac arrhythmia attack. Since then our
On Sunday 13 September 09, myself (Pete McCarthy) and my great friend Dave Bentley, undertook to complete the London Duathlon, to raise funds for CRY in memory of my beloved daughter Amanda, who sadly died on October 12th last year http://www.c-r-y.org.uk/amanda-mccarthy The day started early, with a wakeup call at 0600, in order to make sure
I held a coffee morning on the 11th September, raising £206.00 and awareness for CRY. It was only 2 days before when it was decided to hold this event and my mam got cracking with her lovely cakes. Many friends and neighbours popped in and out and they all enjoyed a chat as this was held
By Simon Halliday To say first of all, a HUGE thank you for your donations and support for CRY. The Head of the Charity, Alison Cox, was absolutely delighted with everything, and that CRY had enjoyed their best ever day at the London Marathon. One week on , the memories get better and better as the
BBC TV news director Gordon Findlay used the retirement of fellow director Nick Davies to raise £50 for Tom Clabburn’s Memorial Fund. In the grand tradition of leaving dos, Gordon made a DVD of Nick’s life and times. It proved to be so popular that he was able to charge people £5 a time for a
In December 2008, Lt Charlotte Pistra (below) took a team of soldiers from 1 (UK) Armoured Division Headquarters and Signal Regiment to Zell Am See in Austria to represent the Regiment in the Corps Ski Camp. Sadly, Lt Pistra died after breaking the record for the race in which she had just competed. Lt Pistra was