Thursday, July 16, 2009

Barbecue for Barretstown on Sunday

If the weather is right, the hot place to be next Sunday afternoon is Bardon's Roof Garden. That's where a special fundraising barbecue for Barretstown Castle Foundation will be sizzling along.

Running from 4pm-11pm, the event will include live music from Beefy Minehan & Friends, and all the proceeds will go to the charity set up by the late Paul Newman for seriously ill children.

The event is the brainchild of Bardons regular Stan Clarke, and proprietor Eddie Cross and his colleagues Linda Price and Ellen O’Driscoll got wholeheartedly behind the idea, and arranged for sponsorship of the food and spot prizes.

In 1994, Paul Newman's Hole in the Wall Camps founded its first camp in Europe, at Barrestown. Children from more than 20 European countries with serious health conditions come there each year.