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Darkness Into Light, the annual fundraising event organised by Pieta and supported by Electric Ireland, took place on Saturday May 6, with over 1,000 people in County Westmeath coming together for the most important sunrise of the year, helping to raise almost €4m nationally to fund Pieta’s lifesaving suicide prevention services.

Funds raised for Pieta House courtesy of a 48 hour ‘Darkness Into Light’ walkathon by members of Athlone GAA in 2019 were duly presented to the local branch of the suicide awareness organisation in recent times.

Pieta, the national suicide and self-harm prevention charity, has announced a recruitment drive to hire additional therapists for its Midlands centre in Athlone.

Pieta, the national suicide and self-harm prevention charity, has announced a recruitment drive to hire additional therapists for its Midlands centre in Athlone.

During 2020 Pieta delivered over 52,000 hours of intervention and bereavement counselling, answered over 70,000 crisis support calls and texts and directly supported over 600 households impacted and bereaved by suicide.

Lemonade Marinade release their second single during these uncertain times, in aid of the Irish mental health charity, Pieta.

A sense of club community was very much to the fore this past weekend as members of Athlone GAA united to raise much needed funds for Pieta House Midlands.

Pieta House and Electric Ireland have launched an urgent appeal to members of the local community to ensure that Pieta’s essential frontline services can remain in operation and continue to be delivered free of charge by donating much needed funds online at www.darknessintolight.ie.

A phone call when at her lowest mental health ebb proved the genesis for transformation and the formation of a relationship with Pieta House Midlands in Athlone for Mary McCarthy.

Highlights of the homecoming of five men, from Mayo, Mullingar and London, who cycled from Lourdes to Knock in five days will be broadcast on the iMayo TV show on Saturday, August 17 at 8pm and again on Tuesday, August 20, at 12.30pm.