The 12th annual Paudie Fitzmaurice Memorial Tractor and Vehicle Run will begin and end at Cordal GAA Club grounds on Sunday, October 8th. and the off time is 1:30pm.
The run will be preceded on Saturday by a bucket collection in Castleisland from 10am to 4pm.
Cordal Community Resource Centre caters for the community with an emphasis on the elderly population of its huge parish.
Martina O’Donoghue of the centre management said that the run is of huge importance to the centre as it has seen its running costs spiral in recent months.
Centre Running Costs Spiked
The periodical electricity bill has recently gone from an average of €480 to €1,200 and insurance costs have been spiked from €1,400 to over €2,000.
The route will take in the Castleisland and Currow areas and it has created quite a colourful spectacle with monstrous, new farm machinery and lots of examples of much smaller relics of quieter times of the farms and country roads.
The event, which has raised over €100,000 for local charities since it was founded in 2012, has adopted the motto ‘if it has wheels bring it along.’
Unaffordable Insurance Costs
In spite of the event title and in line with the motto, any vehicle or owner who decorates the collection box with the obligatory €20 entry fee will be shown to the starting line.
The event has always been open to and attracted vintage cars and motor bikes and non vintage vehicles in the course of its outings over the past decade.
Cordal Community Centre lost its annual fundraising cycle early in 2022 due to unaffordable insurance costs.
Refreshments Before and After
The cavalcade of vehicles will leave Cordal GAA Club grounds at 1:30pm on the coming Sunday, October 8th and travel through: Castleisland; Currow; Breahig and finish back where it started in Cordal.
There will be refreshments before and after the event at the centre and there will be commemorative tokens for all participants.
Further information is available from Charlie on: 087 2056150 or Joe on: 087 9755766.
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