Benefit concert in The Spirit Store in aid of Dundalk Refugee Crisis Appeal

A benefit concert in aid of the Dundalk Refugee Crisis Appeal will take place tomorrow night in The Spirit Store.

The event gets underway from 8pm with music from Orwells 84, Almost Ghosts, Lauren Murphy, Peter Doran and more.

Admission on the night is €10 and all support for the event is welcomed.

Those involved in the crisis appeal hope to send two lorries with supplies and Humanitarian Aid to Kos, Athens and Lesbos at the end of September, with a further lorry going to Calais and Hungary.

The main collection point is in the Long Walk Shopping Centre with further details available by emailing dundalkrefugeecrisis@gmail.com

 

Two further 40 foot containers secured for refugee crisis appeal

The Dundalk refugee campaign secured two more 40 foot containers at the weekend in which to send aid convoys abroad.

Last week Jenkinson Logistics offered to send a lorry to Calais and Hungary with donations taken in from this area.

Now a company from Maghera have also weighed in behind the Refugee Crisis Appeal with their vehicles set to travel to Kos, Athens and the Greek Islands.

Smurfit Kappa have also donated 850 boxes.

Those who wish to donate can do so during the day at the pop up shop in the Long Walk Shopping Centre or at Dundalk Tourist Office. The Sevens taxi rank in Francis Street will also accept donations daily between 4pm and 10pm.

To lend your support call to any of those centres.

40 foot lorry secured to transport Dundalk donations to refugees

Hauliers Jenkinson Logistics have agreed to supply a 40 foot lorry for the transport of local donations towards the Europe Refuge Crisis Appeal.

The company, headed up by Gareth Jenkinson, will transport the goods donated locally to Calais and Hungary free of charge.

Meanwhile, Tony Carroll of Dundalk-based AP Controls has kindly donated 800 boxes free of charges, as well as 36 rolls of tape to place the items into.

There are three collection points for the donations of items in Dundalk – the pop up shop in the Long Walk Shopping Centre, Dundalk Tourist Office and the Sevens taxi rank on Francis Street, which opens from 4pm to 10pm.

All support is welcomed.