Kidney fund hits €6,500

The funds in so far from the Flora Womens Mini Marathon ladies participating in aid of the Punchestown Kidney Research Fund has now reached €6,500, with more due in.

Organiser Phena Bermingham says she expects that the total will be down on the high proceeds from recent years, because of the effects on the recession on so many families who have regularly supported the PKRF participants.

"But it is still looking like a very generous response," she says.