Rugby event hopes to raise €10,000 for fund

THE organisers of the Northern hemisphere’s largest rugby sevens’ tournament are hoping to raise up to €10,000 from this year’s event for the Kinsale Trawler Tragedy Fund.

Tomas O’Brien, tournament director for the Heineken Kinsale Sevens said that, each year, the organisers run a collection for a designated charity and have raised between €3,000 and €7,000 a time for a worthy cause.

However, he said it was hoped to top those figures considerably for the local fund which was set up to aid the families struck by the tragic sinking of the Honeydew II last January. Skipper Ger Bohan and crew man Tomasz Jagla perished while two others were rescued.