The 2026 edition of the Toye Charity Barn Dance has raised an amazing \u20ac81,705.67 for a range of good causes.<\/p>\n
Large crowds packed into the farmyard of John and Colleen Toye in Ruskey, Manorcunningham at the end of June for the sixth edition of the fundraising dance.<\/p>\n
Sinead Black, Paddy Treacy, and Paul Kelly were on hand to provide some superb live entertainment, with a fully stocked bar and a live auction also helping to drive donations.<\/p>\n
The charities being supported by the barn dance this year are the Drumoghill Parish Church, St Johnston Presbyterian Church, Raymoghy Church of Ireland, MS Donegal Branch, Bumbleance, and Little Blue Heroes, and all will benefit from a significant financial boon as a result of the donations raised.<\/p>\n
With a new record amount achieved, the Toye family have thanked all who attended the dance and donated.<\/p>\n
“That\u2019s a wrap for this year, massive thanks to everyone who made this barn dance possible,” the Toye family said.<\/p>\n
“Our biggest amount yet at \u20ac81,705.67.”<\/p>\n
“It wouldn\u2019t have been possible without the help of our amazing volunteers and the support of the local community.”<\/p>\n
The dance has been raising money for local charities and good causes since 2016, and with this years’ donations the overall total raised by the dance is now nearing the \u20ac300,000 mark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 edition of the Toye Charity Barn Dance has raised an amazing \u20ac81,705.67 for a range of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":["post-587928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587928","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=587928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}