Excitement’s building locally as the FTD Brothers move into our space.
The UK duo (who may have family ties locally!) Jordan and Cian Adams have undertaken a challenge of running a marathon in every county in Ireland in a bid to raise €1million for dementia research and support.
The money will see 50% of funds raised by the duo has been pledged to the Alzheimer Society of Ireland with the rest going to their own non-profit, the FTD Brothers Foundation.
Their focus is on Frontotemporal Dementia (hence the FTD) which they lost their Mother Geraldine to in 2016 when she was aged just 52.
Find out more and donate here.
You’re encouraged to show support by turning up at their stops and cheering them on; at 10am this (Thursday, 21st May) morning they’re in Kilkenny city – here’s the route they intend to follow, starting from Kilkenny Castle:
