Cloghan Social Dancing Club recently presented a cheque for €1,000 to the Belmont High Street Ladies Group Daffodil Committee 2025., which the raised at one of their recent social events. Pictured at the presentation are Mary McManus, Breda Killian and Marian McManus from the Belmont High Street Ladies Group and Ray Delaney and Pat Claffey, representing Cloghan Social Dancing Club.

Cloghan Social Dancing Club donates funds to two worthy causes

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The members of Cloghan Social Dancing Club in west Offaly recently made two donations of €1,000 each to worthy causes from social events they organised in recent months.

The first donation was made to the members of the Belmont High Street Ladies group who organised a number of Daffodil Day events in the local area on March 28 last, which was national Daffodil Day 2025.

Pat Claffey and Ray Delaney from Cloghan Social Dancing Club presented a cheque for €1,000 to Mary McManus, Breda Killian and Marian McManus from the Belmont High Street Ladies group , the proceeds of their social dancing night which took place on March 28.

Bernie Ryan and Pat Claffey from Cloghan Social Dancing Club pictured at the presentation of a cheque for €1,000 from the club to one of their regular members, Tom Griffin, whose granddaughter, Sophie Quirke, is fighting an extremely tough health battle after she was diagnosed at seven years old with B Cell, Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia in January 2023, and needs to seek Bone Marrow Transplant treatment abroad. The funds, which were raised at a recent social event organised by Clogan Social Dancing Club, will go towards the fundraising drive in aid of little Sophie.

The second cheque for €1,000 from Cloghan Social Dancing Club was presented to one of their stalwart members, Tom Griffin, whose whose granddaughter, Sophie Quirke, is fighting an extremely tough health battle after she was diagnosed at seven years old with B Cell, Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia inJanuary 2023, and needs to seek Bone Marrow Transplant treatment abroad. The funds, which were raised by Clogan Social Dancing Club, will go towards the fundraising drive in aid of little Sophie.

Geraldine Grennan
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