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#RunForAnto Colour Run A Huge Success

#RunForAnto , our 5K Colour Fun Run took place in Falls’ Park on Sunday 23rd September, 2018. Over 1600 people took part, raising over £11,000. We’re delighted that every penny raised from this great event went straight towards fighting Motor Neurone Disease. Volunteers from Falls Park and Colin Glen park runs will acted as race marshals during the run and we’re grate...

Rockliffe Hall Golf outing a huge success

On Monday 23rd of October Rockliffe Hall hotel hosted their deterMND golf day.  The outing was supported by some guest celebrities including Sky Sports' Chris 'Kammy' Kamara and two of Celtic's greatest players, Charlie Nicholas and Packie Bonnar.  After a round of golf the participants were treated to a wonderful meal and a talk about the purpose of the day's event from Rockliffe ...

MND awareness at Croke Park

Anto and family were invited to Croke Park on Sunday 27th Aug as VIP guests of Pauric Duffy,  for the All Ireland football semi final between Dublin and Tyrone.  Anto was invited to speak about MND before the game in front of almost 83,000 supporters.  A huge thank you to Pauric and everyone at GAA headquarters for this wonderful experience and platform to raise awareness.&nbs...

Donation to Project Mine

DeterMND has made another €30,000 donation to the Ireland branch of Project MinE ( @_makeityours ). The project focuses on identifying genes associated with MND, hopefully leading to developing treatments. The team have had a major breakthrough recently, with the discovery of the NEK1 gene. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to DeterMND, your support is helping to make a difference...

Giro d'Italia Gran Fondo

Huge thanks to Anto McKenna, Joe Finnegan and Sean Fennel who are currently taking part in the Giro D'Italia Gran Fondo to raise awareness and research funds in support of deterMND. Maith thu ...

Sacred Heart College support DeterMND

A huge thank you to Sacred Heart college, Omagh for their very generous donation to the deterMND trust. The year 13 and 14 Business studies students undertook a project management module which focused on raising awareness and funds for a community charity/trust. Dearbhla McDonald, the student project lead said "when we were given the task by our teacher Mr Freaney, one of the first...

Spar Craic 10k a huge success

On Thursday, 17 March 2016, over 1300 runners took to the streets of Belfast for the Spar Craic 10k fun run. The day was organised by the Aisling events team and this year deterMND were chosen as the community partner.   The race started at 9 AM from Belfast City Hall and took in the city centre, Falls Road and Grosvenor before finishing at Titanic Belfast. The PSNI and over 90 volunteers...

Féile An Phobail collection success

The positive legacy of Game for Anto still being felt  with an amazing £4350.00 raised during Feile Belfast for our #MND research fund. Once again our community has stood with us, from Féile an Phobail to volunteers, to every person who donated. Go raibh mile maith agat...

Anto catches up with Paul Kimmage

Paul Kimmage talking to Anto about Antrim GAA and life with MND. Click here for story- http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/good-days-bad-days-and-championship-sundays-31266682.html ...

deterMND support Project MiNe

deterMND were delighted to meet with Professor Hardiman & the Project MinE Ireland team today to donate €30,000 towards their #MND research project. We would like to sincerely thank everyone who has donated and supported the #GameforAnto research fund. ...