Punchestown
Kidney
Research
Fund

Please don't take
your organs to heaven
as heaven knows
we need them here on earth

The Punchestown Kidney Research Fund

Niall Cronin is kindly hosting a Cheltenham Preview Night in aid of PKRF in Kavanaghs Pub Naas on February 28th. The panel include Dessie Hughes, Davy Russell, Paul Townend, Gordon Elliot and Matt Chapman.

The 22nd running of the Diageo Ireland Punchestown Charity Race will take place on Saturday May 7th 2011. Once again, it will be the final race of the National Hunt Festival.

Download the 2011 Sign Up Sheet

The 21st running of the Punchestown Charity Race took place on Saturday 24th April 2010. It was a fitting finale to the 2010 National Hunt Racing Festival. The race was once again kindly sponsored by Diageo Ireland, brilliantly organised by Anne Marie Molloy and run in aid of the Punchestown Kidney Research Fund (PKRF). €66,800 was raised through the Race and the Mini Marathon and the cumulative total raised by the PKRF to date now stands at a staggering €1,116,689.

Congratulations to Niall Cronin
Winner of The 2010 Race!

Trip to the winner’s enclosure

Read all about his experience at Herald.ie

Evening Herald Racing correspondent Niall Cronin with his horse, Prospectorous, trained by Phillip Dempsey, was the winner of the 2010 Diageo Ireland Charity Race. He was given a fantastic reception by the thousands of racing fans that stayed on to watch the curtain close on the National Hunt season–as were all 24 jockeys in this most special of Races.

  • 2nd was Martha Pisarek riding Paramount, trained by Ted Walsh
  • 3rd was Paddy McLoughlin riding Force of Habit, trained by Dermott Weld
  • 4th was hardy Eustace ridden by Sandra Hughes, trained by Dessie Hughes

2010 Progress Report

We have had a productive year in 2010, and have supported the following projects:

  • €10,000 – Tallaght Art Therapy Project
  • €10,000 – Waterford Art Therapy Project
  • €30,000 – Cancer Screening at Beaumont Hospital
  • €500 – To sponsor a dialysis patient to go to Lourdes
  • €15,000 – Final Paymet on 2010 Transplant Games
  • €1,300 – Paid for Two Transplant Games Sports Bursaries

Darren Cawley, Linda Evans, Larry Hagman, James Nolan and Chikoyo White at Punchestown 2008.

We are a Registered Company (Tax Reference 64270888) and a Registered Charity (CHY 16613) since 2005.

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