Volunteers turn first divot on cancer unit

TIGER Woods chipped in and JP McManus drove the project along, helping to give cancer patients in the mid-west a shot at survival and a new life.

Volunteers turn first divot on cancer unit
Sat, 06 Nov, 2004 - 00:00
Jimmy Woulfe, Mid-West Correspondent

The first divot was turned on the site of an €8 million radiotherapy unit in the grounds of the Mid Western Regional Hospital by Junior Health Minister Tim O’Malley yesterday.

Woods played in the JP McManus Golf Classic at Limerick Golf club in 2000, which raised 2m for the new unit.

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