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Michael Quinlivan with long-time Irish Cancer Society supporter Miriam O’Callaghan and former acting chief executive Edel Shovlin | PICTURE: Andres Poveda
A KIND-HEARTED Limerick man has raised almost €250,000 for the Irish Cancer Society in the years he has volunteered for its annual Daffodil Day event.
Michael Quinlivan, who lives in Thomondgate, has worked for 38 of the past 39 years the charity has held its flagship fundraiser.
Each March, you’ll find the 77-year-old out and about selling daffodils, and all other kinds of gifts to raise money for the Irish Cancer Society.
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For the four Saturdays in the month, he has a stall in the Milk Market.
Not only this, Michael has built a network of 60 shops across the city and county who take in donation boxes - alongside former colleagues in the Revenue office at Sarsfield House and around the region.
All this has meant that since 1989, he has raised €227,305 for charity.
Among other things, funds raised from Daffodil Day in Limerick last year paid for 655 lifts to bring 74 patients to and from cancer treatment safely, 310 nights of nurse care and 337 free counselling sessions to those hit by cancer.
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