Greville Arms dining room stuffed for Soroptimists Christmas lunch
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Connie Galligan, Marie Carroll and Sarah McCormack at the Greville Arms Hotel for the fundraising lunch on Friday. Thomas GibbonsImage 2 of 17
Mary Hughes and Linda Magee from TEAM. Thomas GibbonsImage 3 of 17
Teresa Collentine and Teresa Collentine from Mullingar. Thomas GibbonsImage 4 of 17
Trudy Maguire and Irene McGowan at the Soroptimists lunch. Thomas GibbonsImage 5 of 17
Eithne Brady and Brenda Smith from Mullingar. Thomas GibbonsImage 6 of 17
Gerry Healy and John Moriarty on Friday afternoon. Thomas GibbonsImage 7 of 17
Valyrie Moroney, Noirin Abbott and Marian Mortell from Mullingar Soroptimists. Thomas GibbonsImage 8 of 17
Ferga Lynch and Katrina Molloy at Friday’s lunch. Thomas GibbonsImage 9 of 17
Julia Smyth, Kathleen O’Hara and Regina Perry from Mullingar. Thomas GibbonsImage 10 of 17
Liz Osbourne, Anne Cleary, Josephine Purcell and Anne McCoy (Mullingar) on Friday. Thomas GibbonsImage 11 of 17
James Bourke (Mullingar Chamber of Commerce president) with Bridie and Jim Bourke. Thomas GibbonsImage 12 of 17
Mary Wynne (Mullingar Soroptimists president) and Jackie Mills (Mullingar Golf Club lady captain) with Louise McGonagle. Thomas GibbonsImage 13 of 17
Ben and Helen Dolan at the lunch in the Greville Arms Hotel. Thomas GibbonsImage 14 of 17
Jill Hegarty, Cllr Bill Collentine with Bernie O’Farrell from Delvin. Thomas GibbonsImage 15 of 17
Serena Daly from Dysart and Yvonne McGrath from Croghan. Thomas GibbonsImage 16 of 17
Audrey Carroll, Pauline Keegan, Mary Fagan and Mary Leonard at the fundraising lunch. Thomas GibbonsImage 17 of 17
Margaret Claffey, Geraldine Loughery, Mary Winterlich and Carmel Kerrigan from North Westmeath Hospice. Thomas GibbonsThe main dining room at the Greville Arms was packed on Friday from midday till 3pm and the buzz of chat and people enjoying themselves was audible from the lobby.
The event was organised by Mullingar and District Soroptimists, and Sarah McCormack took a minute out of hosting duty to tell the Westmeath Examiner about it.
“Today is the 5th of December and we’re here in the Greville Arms Hotel for our annual Soroptimists Christmas charity lunch. There’s an amazing crowd here today. We have sold more than 240 tickets.
“Everybody’s in great spirits. Everybody loves this event because it’s the start of Christmas. And most importantly, it is for charity fundraising.
“Each year we take the proceeds that we make from the ticket sales today from the raffle, and we then later on share out that money to the various charities across Mullingar and the surrounding areas.
“Of course, we wouldn’t be able to do this without the wonderful sponsors we have for our raffle, and indeed, thanks to everybody that supported the event.
“It’s a great Christmas occasion here in the Greville Arms Hotel, Mullingar.”
Sarah added thanks to everyone who bought tickets and who was present on the day.
“We really appreciate it, because without that wonderful support from Mullingar and surrounding areas, it wouldn’t be possible for us to achieve this here today.”