These colourful hares are raising money for a great cause

Some of Ireland’s top artists have painted hares for an auction in aid of the Jack and Jill Foundation, writes Ellie O’Byrne

THE Jack and Jill Foundation’s colourful ‘Hares on the March’ fundraiser is putting a spring in the step of art-lovers.

After the success of the children’s charity’s ‘Pigs on Parade’ fundraising campaign last year, artists were again invited to submit a unique design and execute it on a 3ft-tall primed fibreglass model of an animal, this year of that most elusive of our native fauna, the hare.