The Pioneer Total Abstinence Association has thanked the public for helping it “to avoid national closure”.
Chief executive Pádraig Brady said it was “deeply grateful to its members and particularly to the people of Ireland for giving so generously to us in our hour of need”. Thanks to them “the association has been spared imminent closure”, he said.
The first national appeal in the association’s 113-year history raised almost €108,000. Mr Brady said, however, that “the association remains under financial pressure. While our appeal target of €300,000 has not been reached, the association is very appreciative of the support it has received to date at a time when the pressure and stress of economic worries and hardship are felt daily across Irish society”.
Source: Patsy McGarry, Irish Times, 07/10/2011
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