Dempsey dinner raises €3,000 for charity

GIRVAN DEMPSEY was in Donnybrook yesterday to make donations of €1,500 each to two special charities – Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin and the Irish Cancer Society.

The funds were raised at a gala dinner hosted by Dempsey’s club, Terenure College, in Dublin in April to mark the Leinster and Ireland full-back’s outstanding service to the game. More than 300 guests attended.

Dempsey, who retired from the game in May after 175 appearances for Leinster in a career spanning 14 years, in which he won Celtic League, Magners League and Heineken Cup honours, explained: