Cannonball is coming back to Edenderry
Cannonball is coming back to Edenderry on Friday, September 6, at 11am for a slow lap of the town to showcase 200 supercars as the event sets off this year from the midlands.
The action-packed supercar spectacle is set to roll on September 6- September 8 from Johnstown Estate in Enfield taking in Kilkenny, Wexford, Wicklow, Galway, Leitrim before finishing in Trim, Co Meath.
Cannonball, fuelled by milesPLUS from Circle K, is the largest organised road trip in Europe featuring the finest cars on the planet from the awe-inspiring power of Ferrari, Lamborghini and McLaren to the grace and elegance of Porsche, Aston Martin, and Maserati. The brand-new Lamborghini Revoulto will be unveiled in Ireland for the very first time and over 200,000 spectators are expected with free family festivals organised from coast to coast.
Cllr Noel Cribben and the Edenderry Festival Committee have been in talks with Alan Bannon, founder of Cannonball since January to bring the event back and the event is delighted to now confirm that we will see the supercar spectacle again as it does a full loop around the town as part of the official start of the event on Friday morning.
The cars will begin to arrive and will be on display at Johnstown Estate in Enfield from Thursday evening September 5 from around 6pm. The cars will leave at approximately 10.30am on Friday September 6 heading for Edenderry and regroup to make a spectacular convoy through the town at approx 11am.
Organisers are working on the exact route that the event will take but the plan is to come around the back of the town via the new road and then roll slowly through JKL Street so the drivers can put on a show and spectators will get to see the cars. The best viewing points will be at the Canal Harbour round about and all the way up JKL Street to the court house.
Cannonball has already raised €1,638,432 for Irish Children’s Charities and brings a unique and inimitable electric atmosphere to host towns all over the country making it a widely anticipated free family event for spectators.
This year the official charity of Cannonball is the Jack and Jill Children's Foundation - an Irish children’s charity that funds and delivers in-home nursing care, respite support for children from birth to six years of age with severe learning disability associated with complex medical need. Some 290 children and their families from Offaly, Kildare and Meath have been helped over the years by Jack and Jill and there are currently 416 children and their families under the care of The Jack and Jill Children's Foundation right across the country. The charity’s mission is to empower parents to care for their child at home, because there is no care like home care for a Jack and Jill child.