Organiser of cancer fundraiser which has made €40,000 dies ahead of event

An estimated €40,000 has so far been raised through Ms Cregan’s “courageous” efforts to give back to organisations providing help to cancer patients, explained Jim Barry, co-organiser of the Help Fight The Big ‘C’ fundraising drive.

A major fundraiser for cancer services is to go ahead as planned tonight, following the tragic death, last night, of the event’s organiser Mary Cregan, a daughter of former Fianna Fáil TD John Cregan.

Ms Cregan, 33, a qualified nurse, and based in the Emergency Department at University Hospital Limerick, was diagnosed with a tumour in her brain in 2015. However, despite undergoing extensive treatment for the disease, which had been in remission for a period, her tumour had resurfaced in June last year.