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Cork’s Little Women

31933_451705428235301_1580811409_n(Amy O’Mahony, 5, left, and her sister Lauren, 6)

A six year old Cork girl is to sacrifice 12 inches of blonde hair in order to help her sister, who has autism, to get an assistance dog.

In a gesture reminiscent of a scene from Little Women, Lauren O’Mahony will cut off her long blonde hair in order to raise funds for Autism Assistance Dogs Ireland (AADI) this May. Her five year old sister Amy has been diagnosed with autism and has been on a waiting list for an assistance dog for 10 months. She could be waiting up to three years before a dog is available for placement.

 Mmf.

Lauren, let down your hair : Sister snips for good cause (Peter Horgan, Cork Independent)

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Lauren’s Hair-Raising Fundraiser (Facebook)

Via: Deirdre O’Shaughnessy

Hannah Gets A Bob

Lisa Sheppard writes:

Hi guys. This is Hannah McCleane, age 13, who yesterday had her lovely long locks chopped for charity in our salon! It’s for the Rapunzel Foundation which takes in donations of ponytails  to make wigs for children who are going through cancer treatment.

She was also raising money for the Irish Cancer Society by getting sponsored to have her hair cut. She is a fantastic young lady and thought you guys should know about her.

 

The World’s Most Expensive Burger

Last week, New York restaurant Serendipity3 set a Guinness World Record for the priciest burger with this gourmet $295 NOMfest, described by PRNewswire as:

…a mix of Japanese Wagyu beef infused with 10-herb white truffle butter, seasoned with Salish Alderwood smoked Pacific sea salt, topped with cheddar cheese — hand-formed by the famous cheesemaker James Montgomery in Somerset, England, and cave-aged for 18 months — shaved black truffles, a fried quail egg and served on a white truffle-buttered Campagna Roll, which is topped with a blini, creme fraiche, and Paramout Caviar’s exclusive Kaluga caviar — a beautiful golden caviar with a buttery, nutty taste and large pearls from the Huso Dauricus farm raised in Quzhou, China. The finishing touch to this incredible burger is a solid gold “Fleur de Lis” toothpick encrusted with diamonds and designed by world-renowned jeweler.’

48 hour notice is required when ordering the burger, profits from which are donated to the Bowery Mission a NY charity that feeds homeless people.

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Rehab Charity Chief On €234,000 A Year

‘SECRET’ top-up payments to disability charity chiefs on salaries up to €150,000 are being investigated by Department of Health officials. The officials are conducting a high-level probe into how the charities are spending €1.5bn in state funding.They now believe some senior executives are getting extra payments on top of their salaries.

…One leading charity, Rehab, made it clear that it did not welcome  [Health Minister] Dr Reilly’s request for information on its chief executive Angela Kerins’ package. Rehab chairman Brian Kerr told the minister that Ms Kerins’ remuneration was “not a matter in which you have a role” as her salary was funded from money raised from other commercial sources rather than out of the €36m the charity received from the State last year. He did, however, tell Dr Reilly that Ms Kerins received a salary of €234,000. But he denied she was getting bonus payments on top of that

 

Spare a thought for Angela though.

She made €400,000 in 2009.

Probe into top-ups for €150,000 Charity Chiefs (Eilish O’Regan, Irish Independent)

Existential Trocaire Box

He’s been robbed four time already today.

Cian Murphy, of Our Lady Queen of Apostles National School, Clondalkin, Dublin, launching a national competition for primary schools to design next year’s Trocaire box. As the aid agency’s annual Lenten campaign began, Trocaire is seeking a school to design the box for its 40th anniversary in 2013.

Trocaire

(Mark Stedman/Photocall ireland)