Dubliners ‘hop on and help out’ children’s charity

FAMOUS Dubliners went sightseeing yesterday to help raise funds for a charity devoted to helping sick children.

Former world snooker champion Ken Doherty, Senator David Norris, the city’s new Lord Mayor Vincent Jackson, singer Don Baker and some of Fair City’s favourite soap stars climbed on board a special sightseeing bus and urged the public to “hop on and help out” the Barretstown Camp in Co Kildare.

Founded in 1994 by the movie star Paul Newman, Barretstown became the first Hole in the Wall Gang Camp outside the US and has grown from catering for 124 children at camp to more than 1,000 this year.