Four enterprising young friends from St. Mary’s Villas in Drogheda ran a bake sale last week and, as well as entertaining their neighbours, raised €540 for Crumlin Children’s Hospital.
Ten-year-old Kate Sullivan and her brother Diarmuid (9) joined forces with their friends Cara Galvin (who is 13 today, happy birthday Cara) and 11-year-old Mia Galvin to organise the cake sale last weekend.
They drew up a leaflet and dropped copies of it through the letter boxes of the houses in the Villas inviting all their neighbours along.
They then set about baking all sorts of delicious biscuits and cakes and on the day itself, Saturday March 6, they set up their stalls outside the Galvin’s house wondering would anyone turn up.
They needn’t have worried, within minutes almost everyone in the street was out chatting with their neighbours and enjoying the tea and cakes.
More importantly they were spending plenty of cash – the four had decided to donate whatever money they raised to Crumlin Children’s Hospital because Diarmuid had spent four months being treated there when he was little.
There are far more grandparents than children living in St. Mary’s Villas these days. It’s a quiet estate across the road from the railway station but it is mainly “empty nesters” living there now.
The Sullivan’s have been living there longer than the Galvins so Kate and Diarmuid were delighted when they found out there were two people their own age moving into a house around the corner from them.
Having been off school since before Christmas the four children have become firm friends and have spent a lot of time in each other’s company.
All four of them told Drogheda Life that the people they are missing most during lockdown are their grandparents first and foremost, followed by uncles and aunties.
They are also looking forward to returning to school tomorrow to see their schoolfriends and teachers.
