Thank you for supporting our Virtual Sunrise Up Croagh Patrick Challenge 2020
It has been a great success. The Team smashed our 7million steps target by achieving 10,500,000 steps = 8,000KM = 389 virtual Croagh Patricks. Well done everyone & Many many thanks to all our donors. Please help us reach our € target. Click Donate
See ‘Thank you’ from John Kelly
Click Here For Details
See Photo Gallery of the 2019 event
See this video from the 2018 event
– Click the video below to see John Kelly speaking about Eithne on of the IMNDA Speciality Nurses during the 2018 climb
– Listen to Clare Connolly speaking on the Ryan Tubridy Radio Show on April 22nd 2019 about Parkinson’s and the Sunriseupcroaghpatrick event. Click on the image below.
– Listen to founder John Kelly speaking on Midwest Radio about the Sunriseupcroaghpatrick event and the Neurological Charities
Thank you – 2019 was a great success:
We are delighted to say that with everybody’s help in 2019, Sunrise Up Croagh Patrick has raised over €25,000, which is fantastic; In total that’s over €65,000 since we first started across our chosen Charities: Young Parkinson’s Ireland, Huntington’s Disease Association of Ireland and the Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association.
We want to thank all those who supported the event and we look forward to your continued support this year.
Join our Virtual Sunrise Up Croagh Patrick Challenge. Just click here to set up your iDonate page
Thank you for supporting our Virtual Sunrise Up Croagh Patrick Challenge 2020
It has been a great success. The Team smashed our 7million steps target by achieving 10,500,000 steps = 8,000KM = 389 virtual Croagh Patricks. Well done everyone & many many thanks to all our donors. Please help us reach our € target. Click Donate
See ‘Thank you’ from John Kelly
Click Here For Details
John Kelly’s video intro to the Virtual Challenge
See the photo Gallery from the 2019 event
See this video from the 2018 event
Click the video below to see John Kelly speaking about Eithne one of the IMNDA Speciality Nurses during the 2018 climb
Listen to Clare Connolly speaking on the Ryan Tubridy Radio Show on April 22nd 2019 about Parkinson’s and the Sunriseupcroaghpatrick event. Click on the image below.
Listen to founder John Kelly speaking on Midwest Radio about the Sunriseupcroaghpatrick event and the Neurological Charities
Thank you – 2019 was a great success:
We are delighted to say that with everybody’s help in 2019, Sunrise Up Croagh Patrick has raised over €25,000, which is fantastic; In total that’s over €65,000 since we first started across our chosen Charities: Young Parkinson’s Ireland, Huntington’s Disease Association of Ireland and the Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association.
We want to thank all those who supported the event and we look forward to your continued support this year.
Join our Virtual Sunrise Up Croagh Patrick Challenge. Just click here to set up your iDonate page
On Saturday June 26th 2021 we hope to return to having our real climb up or walk near Croagh Patrick, Covid-19 restrictions allowing but we may also run a Virtual Event along side. Please check back for updates between now and then.
Here is how our 2020 event was set up:
Virtual Sunrise Up Croagh Patrick Challenge 2020:
In Aid of Huntington’s, Parkinson’s, Motor Neurone
Challenge = (27,000 steps = 20.5 Km) = Croagh Patrick Climb
Walk, Run, Dance, Climb your stairs or whatever way you choose
Do it anytime during June 1st-27th 2020. Do it once, twice or more…..
How many Virtual Croagh Patrick’s can you do?
Join us to fundraise for a great cause. Click Here to set up your iDonate page and ask your family, friends and colleagues to sponsor you. If you just want to donate click here 
. Build up your steps to hit your target during June. Do it in your home, garden or during your daily exercise outdoors
(However please respect the HSE/NHS Covid-19 directions per the following links:
https://www2.hse.ie/coronavirus/ or https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/ as appropriate).
Ideally count your steps each day on your phone, fitness device or step counter.
Keep track on this sheet,
(click sheet to download)
Please join our Virtual Sunrise Up Croagh Patrick Challenge to raise much needed funds for our chosen Brain Condition (Neurological Disease) Charities
o Huntington’s Disease Association of Ireland (CHY 10130)
o Young Parkinson’s Ireland (CHY No. 10816)
o The Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association (CHY 8510)
Help shine some light into the lives of those suffering by funding increased Specialist Care
Just click here to set up your iDonate page – Thank you
John Kelly’s video intro to the Virtual Challenge
“Sunrise Up Croagh Patrick” is an annual get-together of friends who climb Croagh Patrick or walk nearby, have a super time & raise funds for worthwhile charities fighting Neurological Diseases. Funds raised go towards providing increased Specialist Care. It was initially organised by John Kelly (St Jarlaths 1979) and supported by his University classmates and work colleagues from Hanson Regan. The event has grown and attracted wider support from many great people who have been affected by Huntington’s Disease, Parkinson’s, Motor Neuron Disease & Dementia. Last year’s event was on the weekend of 29 June 2019 and we had a wonderful couple of days blessed by the weather for our Climb & Walk. We had a post event dinner and we stayed at the Westport Plaza Hotel. They kindly extended a special deal this year €209 for two nights sharing B&B + 1 dinner. We are delighted to say that with everybody’s help in 2019, Sunrise Up Croagh Patrick has raised over €25,000, which is fantastic; In total that’s over €65,000 since we first started. Thank You All. The Irish Associations for Huntington’s, Parkinson’s and Motor Neurone Diseases have used these funds to provide specialist care and support to people with these conditions and their families.
Your support and participation in 2020 will help these 3 worthy Brain Condition charities provide even more of this much needed specialist care.
Join our Virtual Sunrise Up Croagh Patrick Challenge. Just click here to set up your iDonate page
Register your interest for our Virtual Sunrise Up Croagh Patrick Challenge 1st – 27th June 2020:
Please register your interest below.
Once you register your interest we will revert to you with full details on the Virtual Challenge and how to participate.
Thank you.
Fundraising Page Set Up
Thank you for your interest in participating & fundraising for these great causes. We offer you the option to create an iDonate on-line Sponsorship Page within the Sunriseupcroaghpatrick Fundraising Team or to use a Sponsorship Card to facilitate your fundraising.
For fundraisers who want to create a page,
1) go to https://www.idonate.ie/createfundraiser.php
2) Enter your cause: Type in and select the following charities : Young Parkinsons Ireland, Huntington’s Disease Association of Ireland, Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association
3) Select page type -> choose ‘Event’
3) What event are you taking part in? : Virtual Sunrise Up Croagh Patrick 2020 is already selected
4) Enter your fundraising target and click next
5) Upload a profile image. This helps your supporters know it is you.
6) Enter your email address
7) Follow the indicated steps to complete your fundraising page setup. You will receive an email to active the page. Once activated, you can then login to your iDonate.ie account and customise the page further.
If you would like a Sponsorship Card please email us on sunriseupcroaghpatrick@gmail.com
Thank you
The story so far . . .
How a family tradition turned into an international annual gathering.
We’d been up Croagh Patrick a few times. Dad’s birthday is July 17th, so we’d come home for his birthday and climb Croagh Patrick that weekend.
In January 2016, my mother-in-law, Eleanor, passed away with Huntington’s disease. It wasn’t until the middle of May it dawned on us to dedicate the climb to the memory of Eleanor and in support of the Huntington Disease Association of Ireland (HDAI). Two of us climbed that year and we raised over €5k for HDAI.
When we got back to London, the team were so impressed with the pics, they immediately said “We definitely want to do this next year!”.
And so the inspiration grew. . . .family, friends, work colleagues and supporters of each of the Charities joined in the cause so we had 40 people participate in the 2017 climb resulting in a total of €15k being raised across the Charities. We are delighted to say that with everybody’s help in 2019, Sunrise Up Croagh Patrick has raised over €25,000, which is fantastic; In total that’s over €65,000 since we first started. Thank You All. The Irish Associations for Huntington’s, Parkinson’s and Motor Neurone Diseases have used these funds to provide specialist care and support to people with these conditions and their families.
Your support and participation in 2020 will help these 3 worthy Brain Condition charities provide even more of this much needed specialist care. We aim to make it even bigger again this year. Hopefully you can join us.
Thank you
John Kelly
Young Parkinsons of Ireland Association as part of the Parkinson’s Disease Association of Ireland
Huntington’s Disease Association of Ireland
Motor Neuron Disease Association of Ireland
Our Charities
“Sunriseupcroaghpatrick” is a not for profit Partnership. It is not a registered Charity but will organise events to raise funds for the chosen Registered Charities detailed below in a fully transparent and compliant manner. Can we say just how important these Associations are. These are the organisations who champion the patients and families of people who contract these neurological conditions. They are in your corner from the moment you get connected. They hold your hand throughout. The difficulty is that they are self funding and need proper help.
None of them have enough specialist nurses to help in the community.
- IMNDA, have over 350 patients in Ireland, with 4 nurses covering the country.
- PDAI have 12-14,000 with 5 nurses
- And HDAI have somewhere in the region of 750 patients, they are not sure, with 3000 people at risk; they don’t have any nurses.
Ireland has 34 Neurologists; it can take 6 months to see one, even if you have the money. On average, it takes over 2 years to get a diagnosis, or it did in our case.
The Associations exist because they are needed, with a bit more help they could do so much more.
Registered charity numbers:
The Parkinson’s Association of Ireland CHY No. 10816 (YPI is a national branch of The Parkinson’s Association of Ireland)
The Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association (IMNDA) CHY 8510
Huntington’s Disease Association of Ireland CHY 10130
Donate
To donate please click the button below. Thanks to all who make the effort to give, many of us think about it but never do. All donations given here go straight to the charities via iDonate who charge handling fee of 5%. You can choose to pay this so the charities receive 100%. Check further details on our chosen charities by clicking the charities tab above. Thank you.
When you click the donate button below you will be taken to our idonate.ie Sunriseupcroaghpatrick Fundraising Team Page. There you will have a number of options on how you can donate.
- SunriseupCroaghpatrick Fundraising Page – your donation will be split equally across all 3 Charities
- Donate 100% to Young Parkinson Ireland
- Donate 100% to Huntington’s Disease Association of Ireland
- Donate 100% to The Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association (IMNDA)
- Various other members of our Fundraising Team have donation pages you can choose to support.
Huntington’s Disease Association of Ireland
Huntington’s Disease Association of Ireland (HDAI) provides consultation, information and individualised support to those diagnosed with Huntington’s Disease (HD), their families and their health care team. CHY 10130
Motor Neurone Disease Association of Ireland
The Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association (IMNDA, CHY 8510) is the only organisation of its kind in the country. We are dedicated to working on behalf of people living with MND and their families and carers. Our key services include home visits by our 3 MND nurses, financial assistance towards home help and the supply of specialised equipment on loan. We also fund and promote research into the causes and treatments of MND.
Young
Parkinson’s
Ireland
.
YPI is a national branch of The Parkinson’s Association of Ireland and its key focus is supporting people living with Young Onset Parkinson’s. CHY No. 10816
Join our Virtual Croagh Patrick Challenge
27,000 Steps = 20.5Km
Do it anytime during June 1st – 27th
Click Here For Details
See Photo Gallery of the 2019 event
See this video from the 2018 event
– Click the video below to see John Kelly speaking about Eithne on of the IMNDA Speciality Nurses during the 2018 climb
– Listen to Clare Connolly speaking on the Ryan Tubridy Radio Show on April 22nd 2019 about Parkinson’s and the Sunriseupcroaghpatrick event. Click on the image below.
– Listen to founder John Kelly speaking on Midwest Radio about the Sunriseupcroaghpatrick event and the Neurological Charities
Thank you – 2019 was a great success:
We are delighted to say that with everybody’s help in 2019, Sunrise Up Croagh Patrick has raised over €25,000, which is fantastic; In total that’s over €65,000 since we first started across our chosen Charities: Young Parkinson’s Ireland, Huntington’s Disease Association of Ireland and the Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association.
We want to thank all those who supported the event and we look forward to your continued support this year.
Join our Virtual Sunrise Up Croagh Patrick Challenge. Just click here to set up your iDonate page
Join our Virtual Croagh Patrick Challenge
27,000 Steps = 20.5Km
Do it anytime during June 1st – 27th
Click Here For Details
See the photo Gallery from the 2019 event
See this video from the 2018 event
Click the video below to see John Kelly speaking about Eithne one of the IMNDA Speciality Nurses during the 2018 climb
Listen to Clare Connolly speaking on the Ryan Tubridy Radio Show on April 22nd 2019 about Parkinson’s and the Sunriseupcroaghpatrick event. Click on the image below.
Listen to founder John Kelly speaking on Midwest Radio about the Sunriseupcroaghpatrick event and the Neurological Charities
Thank you – 2019 was a great success:
We are delighted to say that with everybody’s help in 2019, Sunrise Up Croagh Patrick has raised over €25,000, which is fantastic; In total that’s over €65,000 since we first started across our chosen Charities: Young Parkinson’s Ireland, Huntington’s Disease Association of Ireland and the Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association.
We want to thank all those who supported the event and we look forward to your continued support this year.
Join our Virtual Sunrise Up Croagh Patrick Challenge. Just click here to set up your iDonate page
Virtual Sunrise Up Croagh Patrick Challenge 2020:
In Aid of Huntington’s, Parkinson’s, Motor Neurone
Challenge = (27,000 steps = 20.5 Km) Walk, Run, Dance, Climb your stairs or whatever way you choose
Do it anytime during June 1st-27th 2020. Do it once, twice or more…..
How many times can you do it?
Set your Steps Target (whatever you think is a good challenge for you), Post it on Social Media and tag/challenge 5 others using #sunriseupcroaghpatrick #CommunityResponseIrl @IrishRunnerMag . Post photos of your progress (record sheet or app count) and videos of yourself doing steps to motivate your donors. Prizes will be awarded for the best posts uploaded before midnight June 27th 2020
Join us to fundraise for a great cause. Click Here 
to set up your iDonate page and ask your family, friends and colleagues to sponsor you. If you just want to donate click here 
. Build up your steps to hit your target during June. Do it in your home, garden or during your daily exercise outdoors
(However please respect the HSE/NHS Covid-19 directions per the following links:
https://www2.hse.ie/coronavirus/ or https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/ as appropriate).
Ideally count your steps each day on your phone, fitness device or step counter. Keep track on this sheet, (click sheet to download) 
Please join our Virtual Sunrise Up Croagh Patrick Challenge to raise much needed funds for our chosen Brain Condition (Neurological Disease) Charities
o Huntington’s Disease Association of Ireland (CHY 10130)
o Young Parkinson’s Ireland (CHY No. 10816)
o The Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association (CHY 8510)
Help shine some light into the lives of those suffering by funding increased Specialist Care
Just click here to set up your iDonate page
Virtual Sunrise Up Croagh Patrick Challenge 2020:
In Aid of Huntington’s, Parkinson’s, Motor Neurone
Challenge = (27,000 steps = 20.5 Km) Walk, Run, Dance, Climb your stairs or whatever way you choose
Do it anytime during June 1st-27th 2020. Do it once, twice or more…..
How many times can you do it?
Set your Steps Target (whatever you think is a good challenge for you), Post it on Social Media and tag/challenge 5 others using #sunriseupcroaghpatrick #CommunityResponseIrl @IrishRunnerMag . Post photos of your progress (record sheet or app count) and videos of yourself doing steps to motivate your donors. Prizes will be awarded for the best posts uploaded before midnight June 27th 2020
Join us to fundraise for a great cause. Click Here to set up your iDonate page and ask your family, friends and colleagues to sponsor you. If you just want to donate click here . Build up your steps to hit your target during June. Do it in your home, garden or during your daily exercise outdoors
(However please respect the HSE/NHS Covid-19 directions per the following links:
https://www2.hse.ie/coronavirus/ or https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/ as appropriate).
Ideally count your steps each day on your phone, fitness device or step counter.
Please join our Virtual Sunrise Up Croagh Patrick Challenge to raise much needed funds for our chosen Brain Condition (Neurological Disease) Charities
o Huntington’s Disease Association of Ireland (CHY 10130)
o Young Parkinson’s Ireland (CHY No. 10816)
o The Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association (CHY 8510)
Help shine some light into the lives of those suffering by funding increased Specialist Care
Just click here to set up your iDonate page
Your support and participation in 2020 will help these 3 worthy Brain Condition charities provide even more of this much needed specialist care.
Join our Virtual Sunrise Up Croagh Patrick Challenge. Just click here to set up your iDonate page
Register your interest for our Virtual Sunrise Up Croagh Patrick Challenge 1st – 27th June 2020:
Please register your interest below.
Once you register your interest we will revert to you with full details on the Virtual Challenge and how to participate.
Thank you.
Fundraising Page Set Up
Thank you for your interest in participating & fundraising for these great causes. We offer you the option to create an iDonate on-line Sponsorship Page within the Sunriseupcroaghpatrick Fundraising Team or to use a Sponsorship Card to facilitate your fundraising.
For fundraisers who want to create a page,
1) go to https://www.idonate.ie/createfundraiser.php
2) Enter your cause: Type in and select the following charities : Young Parkinsons Ireland, Huntington’s Disease Association of Ireland, Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association
3) Select page type -> choose ‘Event’
3) What event are you taking part in? : Virtual Sunrise Up Croagh Patrick 2020 is already selected
4) Enter your fundraising target and click next
5) Upload a profile image. This helps your supporters know it is you.
6) Enter your email address
7) Follow the indicated steps to complete your fundraising page setup. You will receive an email to active the page. Once activated, you can then login to your iDonate.ie account and customise the page further.
If you would like a Sponsorship Card please email us on sunriseupcroaghpatrick@gmail.com
Thank you
The story so far . . .
How a family tradition turned into an international annual gathering.
We’d been up Croagh Patrick a few times. Dad’s birthday is July 17th, so we’d come home for his birthday and climb Croagh Patrick that weekend.
In January 2016, my mother-in-law, Eleanor, passed away with Huntington’s disease. It wasn’t until the middle of May it dawned on us to dedicate the climb to the memory of Eleanor and in support of the Huntington Disease Association of Ireland (HDAI). Two of us climbed that year and we raised over €5k for HDAI.
When we got back to London, the team were so impressed with the pics, they immediately said “We definitely want to do this next year!”.
And so the inspiration grew. . . .family, friends, work colleagues and supporters of each of the Charities joined in the cause so we had 40 people participate in the 2017 climb resulting in a total of €15k being raised across the Charities. We are delighted to say that with everybody’s help in 2019, Sunrise Up Croagh Patrick has raised over €25,000, which is fantastic; In total that’s over €65,000 since we first started. Thank You All. The Irish Associations for Huntington’s, Parkinson’s and Motor Neurone Diseases have used these funds to provide specialist care and support to people with these conditions and their families.
Your support and participation in 2020 will help these 3 worthy Brain Condition charities provide even more of this much needed specialist care. We aim to make it even bigger again this year. Hopefully you can join us.
Thank you
John Kelly
Young Parkinsons of Ireland Association as part of the Parkinson’s Disease Association of Ireland
Huntington’s Disease Association of Ireland
Motor Neuron Disease Association of Ireland
Our Charities
“Sunriseupcroaghpatrick” is a not for profit Partnership. It is not a registered Charity but will organise events to raise funds for the chosen Registered Charities detailed below in a fully transparent and compliant manner. Can we say just how important these Associations are. These are the organisations who champion the patients and families of people who contract these neurological conditions. They are in your corner from the moment you get connected. They hold your hand throughout. The difficulty is that they are self funding and need proper help.
None of them have enough specialist nurses to help in the community.
- IMNDA, have over 350 patients in Ireland, with 4 nurses covering the country.
- PDAI have 12-14,000 with 5 nurses
- And HDAI have somewhere in the region of 750 patients, they are not sure, with 3000 people at risk; they don’t have any nurses.
Ireland has 34 Neurologists; it can take 6 months to see one, even if you have the money. On average, it takes over 2 years to get a diagnosis, or it did in our case.
The Associations exist because they are needed, with a bit more help they could do so much more.
Registered charity numbers:
The Parkinson’s Association of Ireland CHY No. 10816 (YPI is a national branch of The Parkinson’s Association of Ireland)
The Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association (IMNDA) CHY 8510
Huntington’s Disease Association of Ireland CHY 10130
Donate
To donate please click the button below. Thanks to all who make the effort to give, many of us think about it but never do. All donations given here go straight to the charities via iDonate who charge handling fee of 5%. You can choose to pay this so the charities receive 100%. Check further details on our chosen charities by clicking the charities tab above. Thank you.
When you click the donate button below you will be taken to our idonate.ie Sunriseupcroaghpatrick Fundraising Team Page. There you will have a number of options on how you can donate.
- SunriseupCroaghpatrick Fundraising Page – your donation will be split equally across all 3 Charities
- Donate 100% to Young Parkinson Ireland
- Donate 100% to Huntington’s Disease Association of Ireland
- Donate 100% to The Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association (IMNDA)
- Various other members of our Fundraising Team have donation pages you can choose to support.
Huntington’s Disease Association of Ireland
Huntington’s Disease Association of Ireland (HDAI) provides consultation, information and individualised support to those diagnosed with Huntington’s Disease (HD), their families and their health care team. CHY 10130
Motor Neurone Disease Association of Ireland
The Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association (IMNDA, CHY 8510) is the only organisation of its kind in the country. We are dedicated to working on behalf of people living with MND and their families and carers. Our key services include home visits by our 3 MND nurses, financial assistance towards home help and the supply of specialised equipment on loan. We also fund and promote research into the causes and treatments of MND.
Young
Parkinson’s
Ireland
.
YPI is a national branch of The Parkinson’s Association of Ireland and its key focus is supporting people living with Young Onset Parkinson’s. CHY No. 10816