Barnardos issue urgent appeal after major fundraising opportunity cancelled due to Covid-19

Christian Doyle, 6, from Edenderry helping to launch a National appeal for Barnardos. The Cannonball supercar event was due to take place this weekend September 11-13 raising vital funds for Barnardos and families in crisis, but has been postponed due to Covid-19. Picture: Andres Poveda

As a result of coronavirus, Children’s charity Barnardos has been forced to cancel one of its flagship fundraising events, the Irish Cannonball super car event.

The event, which had pulled in almost 200,000 spectators around Ireland since it first began 12 years ago, had been due to take place on the weekend of September 11 to 13, and would have raised vital funds for the charity.