Hundreds of volunteers around the country are taking part in Daffodil Day, with the society aiming to secure more than €6m in donations from their annual fundraiser.
A woman who has raised more than half a million euro for the Irish Cancer Society since the first Daffodil Day 37 years ago has said she can not believe she has raised so much for the charity."In 1987, I seen an ad in the Woman's Way and I thought if I could do a little bit there now it might help," she said.
It said 42,000 people in Ireland receive a cancer diagnosis every year, while more than 9,000 people die from the disease here every year. The ICS receives just 5% of its funding from the Government, with the rest coming from donation from members of the public. Some 1,200 volunteer drivers gave 22,000 free lifts to cancer patients in 2023, covering 2.3 million kilometres.ICS cancer specialist nurses had more than 28,000 conversations last year with people affected by cancer and there were almost 6,900 night nurses provided by the society which it said allows cancer patients to die at home surrounded by their loved ones.
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