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Founder & Head of International Development of the Sanctuary Runners. Also co-founder of Translate Ireland. And founder of 'One Town - One Voice' - A Community Singing initiative - Former Feature Writer/Broadcaster

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We in the Sanctuary Runners so grateful to John Concannon and the Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland as well as to Caitriona Fottrell and The Ireland Funds for their incredible support of our Global Solidarity Run on Oct 19th. Wonderful night at Ireland Funds Conference dinner in Cork. John Riordan Eoghan Rice Siobhán Gallagher Irish Aid

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Great work you are doing with your team Graham.

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Graham Clifford

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So wonderful to see our Sanctuary Swimmers initiative flourishing in its third year - Thanks so much to Swim Ireland our partners on this unique project! Using open sea swimming to bring everyone in the community together. Sanctuary Runners https://lnkd.in/eVF8cgNK

Diving deeper into Integration – Sanctuary Swimmers making a splash across Ireland for the third year in a row. - Swim Ireland

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🔵 Saturday's launch of the Brighton Sanctuary Runners was just INCREDIBLE - The energy, the positivity, the huge levels of interest! We're so grateful to Tim Holtam and his team - Lets go Sanctuary Runners!! 🔵 https://lnkd.in/e-JyAHFe

Brighton Sanctuary Runners off to a flyer!

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Was so delighted to be there for the launch of the Brighton Sanctuary Runners group this morning! What a crew - over 100 sign ups on day one! So excited by what the future holds for this group - Thanks everyone esp. Tim Holtam
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A wonderful report in The Irish Post on the launch of our new Sanctuary Runners group in Brighton this weekend! https://lnkd.in/emrE7pht

Ireland’s Sanctuary Runners will launch first UK group this weekend | The Irish Post

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🔵 Very excited to be heading to Brighton this Saturday where a new group of Sanctuary Runners will be launched. A massive thanks to Tim Holtam and his colleagues for taking the initiative and running with it! Respect for ALL more important now than ever #Solidarity https://lnkd.in/ejTbGAes

Sanctuary Runners to launch in Brighton this Saturday!

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The Simon Cumbers Media Fund is just so important. In my years working as a feature writer I benefitted from this funding and was able to report on the scourge of HIV and TB in Eswatini and also about the plight of the oft-times forgotten Western Saharan Refugees living in camps in the Sahara desert. Not only did it allow me to shine a light on these topics for an Irish audience but it also helped shaped me into the person I am today. It is just absolutely brilliant to see the SCMF back and Eoghan Rice you, and your colleagues, deserve so much credit for helping bring that about.
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Really delighted to get this one over the line. We've been working for the last few months to re-establish the Simon Cumbers Media Fund, which ran from 2006 to 2019 but then lapsed during the pandemic. The fund supports journalists in Ireland to report on issues of global development. After a four year gap, it will reopen for applications this summer. The fund is named after Simon Cumbers (pictured below), an Irish journalist who was killed while working for the BBC in 2004. It's been a pleasure to deal with his family over recent months as we worked to get the fund back. It was particularly fitting that we launched the fund yesterday on the 20th anniversary of his death. I remember applying to the fund as a young journalist in 2006 (unsuccessfully as it turned out, even though my father was on the judging committee!). It's never been as important for people to understand the interconnected world in which we all live. This fund will support media outlets in Ireland to work on projects to tell that story. https://lnkd.in/e__Wds9a
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