President honours hundreds of cancer society volunteers

HUNDREDS of volunteers with the Irish Cancer Society (ICS) have been honoured by President Mary McAleese for giving hope and encouragement to those diagnosed with cancer.

Around 200 of the society’s 500 volunteers, some of whom are cancer survivors, attended City Hall in Dublin yesterday to receive certificates of acknowledgement.

President McAleese said: “The success of ICS support services is quite simply down to your fidelity, dedication and turning up, not because you have to but because you want to.”