CHEERS to all concerned as Jim Bolger and Davy Russell have confirmed the total raised by their five year annual fundraising hurling match, Hurling for Cancer Research, has now reached €542,000 with this year’s figure coming in at €138,000 for the Irish Cancer Society’s vital cancer research programme.

This has enabled Irish research breakthroughs such as a recent discovery made by BREAST-PREDICT, an Irish Cancer Society Collaborative Cancer Research Centre.