Pictured l-r, Padraig Hegarty (Chairman, Athlone River Festival) with Lisa Marie Keneghan, Laura Keenan, Pia Hughes (School Principal), Ciara Kelly and Emma Dolan Claffey staff of the St Hilda’s Special School, Athlone.

River Festival committee make cheque presentation to St Hilda's

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The Athlone River Festival committee has made a fundraising cheque presentation in support of St Hilda's Special School.

St Hilda's Special School was the fundraising affiliation organisation for this year's Athlone River Festival, committee chairperson Padraig Hegarty making a €1,700 cheque presentation on Friday morning.

"We were absolutely delighted to support St Hilda’s Special School with a percentage of the overall fundraising efforts from this year’s Athlone River Festival.

"We would also like to thank our partners Athlone Triathlon Club who provided €200 towards this amount of money provided to the school," Padraig said.

The committee chairperson thanked the "people of Athlone" who supported the Athlone River Festival's fundraising cause.

"In the past two years the Athlone River Festival has supported two local groups in the town with fundraising and we look forward to continuing this tradition and giving back to our community," Padraig concluded.

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