Cancer charity gets €2.5m windfall from mystery donor

It is the kind of Lotto-size windfall struggling Irish charities usually only dream about.

Yesterday, the Irish Cancer Society confirmed that it received a one-off €2.5m bequest from a mystery donor last year. As a condition of the bequest, the identity of the deceased donor will not be disclosed.

The charity’s communications manager, Gráinne O’Rourke, said it was the single highest bequest the charity ever received.