Charlie Smyth's Pantomime raises £13,000

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: Columba O'Hare; Category: News; Published: 20 March 2013

Charities who received £1000 from Charlie Smyth's Newry Pantomime pictured with members of the group. Front from left: Sylvia McElroy; Newry Gateway Club; Charlie Smyth, Newry Panto and Barbara Sands, Newry Samaritans. Back: Edel Loughran, Newry Panto; Eamon Loughran, Newry Gateway Club; Major John Parrott, Salvation Army; Raymond Jackson, Newry Credit Union; Michael Murphy, St Vincent De Paul; Paddy O'Hanlon, Cancer Research; John Cookson, Newry Panto and Catherine Farrell, Newry Panto. Photograph: Columba O'Hare

Charlie Smyth's Newry Pantomime has raised £13,000 for charity. Charlie himself took time out on his 80th Birthday to make the presentations.

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A group effort from the entire cast and backstage crew resulted in several local charities receiving funding.

Receiving money were: Southern Area Hospice, £2000; Irish Children's Pilgrimage Trust, £2000; Newry M.S. Society, £2000; Cancer Research, £1000; St Vincent De Paul, £1000; Salvation Army, £1000; Samaritans, £1000; Gateway Club, £1000; Marie Curie Cancer Care, £1000 and Motor Neurone, £1000.