# House sales will help to reach €1.5 million target

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/04/29/house-sales-will-help-reach-e15-million-target/
- Published: 2008-04-29T21:23:22+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

A fundraising drive which will see a builder sell two four-bed houses is close to
raising €1.5 million for a new cystic fibrosis (CF) unit in Cork University Hospital.

The Clonough scheme in Castleisland, Co Kerry, is the development of builder Joe
Browne, whose own son suffers from the disease. He came up with the idea to sell
two houses and donated the site, while each unit was built, finished and furnished
through voluntary effort.

The sale of the semis — one is already gone — will go some way to Build4Life’s target
and fund the budget of €4m for a unit for CF patients in Cork and Kerry. The charity
is lobbying for the creation of a 10-bed, day unit in CUH, and are also looking 
for a further 10 “protected beds” in the hospital’s respiratory unit.

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“Concerned parents have raised a lot of money — they’re close to the €1.5m target
as their contribution for the unit. The rest will be funded by the HSE,” Mr Browne
said.

“Limerick has seen a lot of charity investment by JP McManus and I’m appealing for
the biggest and best business people in the region to support our cause. We’ve been
waiting 20 years — let’s dig in,” Mr Browne said.

The charity’s house left to be sold has 1,440 square feet and is fully furnished
to showhouse standard. It is priced at €265,000 through agents Savills HOK and Sherry
FitzGerald Stuart.

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