Site workers charity match raises over €8,000 for school
WORKERS from the Kilcarbery Grange building site in Clondalkin raised over €8,000 for Scoil Mochua as a result of a well-attended charity football match in Sacred Heart FC in Killinarden on Friday.
The Kilcarbery Grange site is split down the middle, with workers from Capami working on one side while Glenbrier workers are building on the other side.
The workers have all been on site for the last four years and they stay in their own sites, but decided to hold a football match against each other to raise funds for Scoil Mochua.
Michael Smith, a plasterer from the Capami side of the development who helped to organise the match, said: “We’re part of two building sites for the largest social housing development in the EU.
“We decided to raise some money for Scoil Mochua, a special needs school near the building site.
“We had a chat and said we’ll put a match together, and we spoke to the foreman for Glenbrier and he said he was interested.
“We said if he got 20 players and we got 20 players then we’d have a game and all of the proceeds would go to the school around the corner.”
The charity match was supported by the workers from both sites, and also many of the suppliers of the site’s materials donated to the cause.
In the end, the construction companies fielded 25 players each, with the match ultimately ending in a 2-2 draw.
“It was great,” added Mr Smith, who lives in Castle Park in Tallaght.
“We got a good crowd, as anyone who didn’t play but who worked on the building sites came down to watch.
“As a ‘guesstimation’, we raised between €8,000 and €10,000 for the school. It’s still being counted.
“We thought if we got €2,000 to €4,000, it would’ve been exceptional. It was great, everyone’s delighted with it.”
The organisers of the match plan to have an official cheque handover in the coming weeks, once the figure that will be donated to Scoil Mochua is finalised.
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