{"id":440625,"date":"2026-05-09T17:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T17:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/440625\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T17:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T17:18:14","slug":"jennie-was-the-star-of-the-show-shes-the-reason-wexford-dad-inspired-by-daughter-raises-e60000-for-charities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/440625\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Jennie was the star of the show, she\u2019s the reason\u2019 \u2013 Wexford dad inspired by daughter raises \u20ac60,000 for charities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Year-long fundraising effort included a 22-hour triathlon, an Ironman in Wales, the Dublin City marathon and a performance at the National Opera House\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Windmill Therapeutic Unit was delighted to receive a cheque for \u20ac32,000 from Andrew and Jennie O'Brien, proceeds from Trisomy 21 on Friday. Pic: Jim Campbell\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/f51dc8fa-df75-40ec-bfb8-f7381aff6bde.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Windmill Therapeutic Unit was delighted to receive a cheque for \u20ac32,000 from Andrew and Jennie O&#8217;Brien, proceeds from Trisomy 21 on Friday. Pic: Jim Campbell<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Trisomy 21 fundraising campaign, an initiative by Wexford dad Andrew O\u2019Brien to raise much-needed funds for Windmill Therapeutic Centre and Wexford Special Olympics Sports Club where his daughter Jennie receives tremendous care and support, has now come to an end with a total of \u20ac60,000 raised.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The final presentation of \u20ac32,000 was made to Windmill Therapeutic Centre on a sunny afternoon in their beautiful garden on Larkins Lane. \u20ac27,000 was donated to Wexford Special Olympics Sports Club some weeks ago, with the remaining balance covering fees to iDonate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Year-long fundraising effort included a 22-hour triathlon, an Ironman in Wales, the Dublin City marathon and a performance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3502,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-440625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-cillian-boggan","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}