Homeless fund still growing

The funds raised by the recent 'Miscellany on Sunday' organised by the Kilcullen Homeless Awareness Group have now exceeded 3,600 euros and are expected to go even higher.

The event was held in the home of Phena and Tom Bermingham at Mooretown, and all proceeds go to the Michael Garry House hostel for the homeless in Newbridge.

Someday, someone should tot up the value of all the community fundraising events organised in Kilcullen for various causes.

Or maybe not. It might be such a great sum total that the Government could be tempted to tax it. Tax it again, of course, because all donations already come from income which has been taxed at least once, and often more times.

Which reminds us of the perennial question about such things: why, in a so-called 'Celtic Tiger' economy where the state coffers have been enjoying a real embarrassment of revenue riches for so many years, is it still necessary for private citizens to fundraise for so many causes which are really the responsibility of those we elect to govern?

Ah, sure ...

Brian Byrne.