Keep Her Lit For Lar

17/03/2022

What a wonderful evening spent last night getting the opportunity to present in person the cheques to 4 very deserving charities from the Keep Her Lit For Lar fundraiser held back in early January.

The McGuinness family presented the 4 cheques each to the value of €33,575.78 to representatives from each of the charities

* Aoife’s Clown Doctors
* LauraLynn - Ireland’s Children’s Hospice
* Friends of St.Lukes
* Skerries Youth Support Services (SYSS)

Thanks to each of the charities who came along last night and explained how this significant amount of money will help their charity to continue to do the great work that they do.

The presentation last night brought a nice conclusion to what was the most wonderful community event held in memory of a great man Laurence McGuinness, we will continue to hold Laurence in our hearts as we go forward, always remembering that magical night on January 2nd.

As Laurence would say “Keep her Lit”!

29/01/2022

Finally we got a chance yesterday to present the 1st prize in the raffle to winner David Cronin, the Snap On Rachet Gun Set was kindly donated by Eanna O’Brien of Snap On Tools who is pictured here along with Johnny McGuinness presenting the prize to David. Congratulations David!

Just to let everyone know that the idonate page will close on the 2nd of February if anyone still wants to make a donation.

www.idonate.ie/KeepHerLitForLar

21/01/2022

Hard to believe its been almost 3 weeks since “Keep Her Lit For Lar” took place! The donations received to date have been so generous and we are delighted to be able to share the fantastic total amount raised to date with you this evening.

Currently the total amount raised is an AMAZING €131,457.31 !!

This sum in above and beyond anything we ever imagined being raised, it is all thanks to those who supported the cause so generously over the past number of weeks and for that we are so thankful to each and every one of you.

The total amount raised will be divided evenly amongst the 4 charities nominated for this fundraiser and they are; LauraLynn - Ireland’s Children’s Hospice, Aoife’s Clown Doctors, Friends of St.Lukes, and Skerries Youth Support Services (SYSS).

A presentation night will be organised in the coming weeks where representatives from each charity will be invited to come and accept the donation on behalf of their charity.
Date to be confirmed.

Well done everyone the 2nd of January is a day that everyone who took park in or contributed in any way should be proud of, without you this would never have been possible. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

20/01/2022

Lar passed away on January 12, 2021 after battling cancer

12/01/2022

Lovely message below from Lar’s wife Maeve, on his 1st anniversary today:

“On this, the 1st anniversary of Laurences’ death, I just wanted to say a huge thank you for all the help, support and kindness shown to myself and the girls in the last 12 months.

To all of those involved in the run, committee members, drivers and collectors, stewards, participants, donators of prizes and money, and to all who came out to watch, we will be forever grateful.

As I said previously, we weren’t able to give Lar the funeral he wanted, and we are unable to do it today, on the 1st anniversary but we gave him something just as good on 2nd January: a gathering with a record breaking amount of tyres, engines and over 103,000 bhp. He would have loved it.

The week before Christmas Aideen asked for the 1st time “Where’s Daddy?”. While she’ll never remember him, or the gentle, generous, kind giant that he was, I have amazing photos and footage of the run, which I can show to her and tell her that this was your Daddy, the kind of man that brought so many people together to help create an amazing event, and that is down to all of you.
So thank you all from Maeve, Caoimhe, Doireann and Aideen “

12/01/2022

Remembering Laurence today on his 1st anniversary.
Lar will be forever in our thoughts and prayers.
Thinking of Lar’s wife Meave, daughters Caoimhe, Doireann and Aideen and all Lar’s family and friends today and always. ❤️

To keep the wonderful memory of “Keep Her Lit For Lar” in our hearts, Grace Hoey kindly gathered many of the great clips that were sent into the page over the last few days and compiled them to make this wonderful video of a terrific event which we will cherish in our memories forever. 🚜🎄💕

Parade of Lights in memory of Laurance McGunniess in aid of Aoife's Clown Doctors, Friends of St Lukes, LauraLynn and Skerries Youth Support Services. 02/01/...

11/01/2022

Check out this week’s Fingal Independent to read all about “Keep Her Lit For Lar”.
Thanks to Jack Corry for the great write up.

09/01/2022

St. Francis Hospice was a great support to Laurence McGuinness during his sickness and in his final days.
With the success of the “Keep Her Lit For Lar” fundraiser, it is with a great sense of fulfilment that we are in the position to make a donation to St. Francis Hospice at the Barney Greene Annual Road Run today.
Pictured is The McGuinness Family making the donation of €5000 to Barney Greene which will be added to the total of the fundraiser today for St. Francis Hospice.

07/01/2022

We have received some video footage from the parade on Sunday and would love to make a short video of it all.

If you have any videos or pictures of Keep Her Lit For Lar we would love if you could send them to us in messenger.

07/01/2022

Thanks to the Dublin Gazette for putting a write up about “Keep Her Lit For Lar” into this week’s issue.

Pictured below in John Joe Skelly who worked hard over the last number of weeks to go out and collect €1082.50 for Keep Her Lit For Lar. An amazing amount for one person to collect.

‘Keep Her Lit for Lar’ saw an incredible 460 drivers join in a fundraising parade on Sunday last (Jan 2), dedicated to the late Lar McGuinness

05/01/2022

Thanks to everyone who purchased raffle tickets on Sunday, apologies to those who did not get the opportunity to buy tickets, the line up of vehicles was just so much longer than we ever anticipated!

For those with tickets the live raffle will take place at approximately 3:30pm via Facebook Live this Saturday the 8th of January.

Best of luck to all!

04/01/2022

The tribute drive was organised in honour of popular local farmer Laurence "Lar" McGuinness, who passed away on January 12 2021 after battling cancer