Old schoolfriends raise around €8,000 every year for Daffodil Day

Veteran Daffodil Day volunteers Mary Donoher and Bridie Parkinson from Mountmellick, Co Laois, are alway watching out for the first flower of spring.

There were daffodils already in bloom as they drove to Dublin for the launch of the Irish Cancer Society’s Daffodil Day in Croke Park yesterday.

The two long-time friends have been raising funds on Daffodil Day for 29 years and will be on the square in Mountmellick shaking their buckets on March 24.