Group of friends help raise €177k for charity in memory of Cork boy

Éanna Desmond, Sam Martin, Paul Moran, Brian Kelleher, Eoghan Riordan and Scott Lonergan, together with family and friends of the late Danny Crowley at the Cork International Hotel Community Spirit Awards last Friday. Picture: Adrian O'Herlihy
A group of friends who have held an annual Christmas swim to honour a young Cork boy who died from leukaemia in 2013 have helped raise more than €177,000 for a worthy cause.
Danny Crowley, 12, died at his home in Carragline in 2013 after a tough battle with a rare form of leukaemia.