It’s Our 5th Twomey Family Remorial!

#LifeIsPrecious

Twomey Family Remorial Weekend is getting ready for a momentous occasion in that we are having our 5th Twomey Family Remorial Weekend on June 9th and 10th. It is our first landmark anniversary in remembering Con, Baba Oisín and Baby Elber-Marie and in promoting how precious life is.

Each year we have had huge crowds support us and without you all, Twomey Family Remorial wouldn’t be so alive, please be assured whether you walk, run, cycle, join in our quiz, make tea and sandwiches, steward, take registrations or come to watch, we are honestly thankful beyond words.

2018 has already begun magically for our Twomey Family Remorial. January saw the super news of us having Seán Browne and his great team at Newmarket Motors and Volkswagen Commercial support our Twomey Family Remorial Weekend again this year, for the third year, huge huge thanks.

This year we will be honoured to have Chief Superintendent Jim Nye from Devon & Cornwall Police travel over to join in our Twomey Family Remorial Weekend, no doubt Con and my beauties will be proud!!

We will also be delighted to welcome members from Irish Roads Policing, from An Garda Siochána and from our Road Safety Authority to join us in remembering Con, Baba Oisín and Little Lady and to promote our value of how precious life is.

On Jan 15th we received the wonderful news that we are now a registered charity in Ireland. Furthermore, on Feb 20th we received a note from the Revenue who kindly told us that Twomey Family Remorial is approved for the Scheme of Tax Relief for Donations to Eligible Charities and other Approved Bodies. So if you want to donate a “few bob” to us you’ll get tax relief. 

Personally, Twomey Family Remorial was launched, in 2014 in memory of my wonderful husband Connie, our beautiful Baba Oisín and his darling unborn sister Elber Marie Twomey whom we lost as a result our tragic crash in July 2012. Myself, my brother Tomás, and two of Connie’s closest friends, Thomas Mahoney and Gerard Angland, Con’s brother in law Aonghus along with Johnny Stack, Finbarr Murphy and Dan O’Connor set the weekend up to remember our Beauties, to promote the reality of how precious life is, to raise awareness of mental health and to promote road safety.

2017 saw Twomey Family Remorial extend to Kilkenny also. 

 It was fabulous to see over 50 people run in Kilkenny in Twomey Family Remorial shirts for us, thanks to our dear friend and committee member Nigel O’Donovan who organised it with the support of his work colleagues at Taxback.com. Their neighbours at VHI Healthcare showed great support for the run thanks to my dear friend Gillian. Indeed Con must have been proud to see all the wonderful Kilkenny people wearing our Twomey Family Remorial shirts! Nigel plans to hold this fabulous event again this year which is superb.

Twomey Family Remorial Weekend Has Now Raised Over A Massive €127,000 Since We Began In 2014.

Each weekend has opened in Meelin with the Connie Twomey Memorial Cup under 12 hurling blitz, as Con was an outstanding hurler. This has been followed by our entertaining table quiz organised by Aonghus MacDomhnaill.
On Sunday morning, our weekend moves to my hometown village of Rockchapel for our sponsored 55k & 110k cycles organised by Johnny Stack and Kanturk Cycling Club. We have a fantastic route with ‘The Sugán Challenge’ along with cycling through Meelin ‘The Highest Village In Ireland”
On Sunday afternoon, our weekend events return to Meelin for our 4 mile walk followed by our 4 mIle run organised by Finbarr Murphy and Duhallow Athletic Club. It’s a great run and what an achievement to be able to say ‘I ran to the highest village in Ireland’ Everyone is welcomed back from our events to lots of goodies and treats 

More than 8,000 people from counties all over Munster and indeed across Ireland have taken part over the four years.

Without all this extraordinary help our weekend would not be possible. The committee of Gerard Angland, Dan O’Connor, Tomás Twomey, Thomas Mahoney, Johnny Stack, Nigel O’Donovan & Finbarr Murphy along with Dave Allen our IT expert, do untold work not just in the extremely busy lead up to the weekend but from January onwards when our preparations get underway.

To them all I personally owe a huge debt of gratitude and I know only too well that Connie, Baba Oisín & Little Lady are smiling down to see the way in which they are being honoured and remembered each year in our Twomey Family Remorial Weekend.

Our Weekend is centred on valuing how precious life is.
To date we have raised:
€11,700 for Torbay Hospital in Torquay, Devon
€11,700 for Derriford Hospital in Plymouth, Devon
€11,700 for Cork University Hospital
€24,362 for Brú Columbanus
€11,525 for Pieta House
€11,525 for Suicide Aware Cork
€17,333 for ReachOut
€17,333 for 3T’s – Turn The Tide Of Suicide
€3,100 Walk In My Shoes
€4,062 St. Joseph’s Foundation Charleville
€2,708 Cork Samaritans

That we have now raised and donated over €127,000 is a phenomenal amount which will certainly help many people in need and please God save lives. This is thanks to you all!

The Charities we are supporting for our 2018 Twomey Family Remorial are:
· Brú Columbanus Cork
· St. Joseph’s Foundation Charleville
· Irish Community Rapid Response
· 3T’s – Turn The Tide Of Suicide
· Cork Samaritans