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Rosemary Kearney

Wicklow

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68 helpline hours

18 crisis counselling sessions

8 therapy sessions

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I’ve raised €72 to fund 6 helpline calls

I’ve raised €135 to fund 3 crisis therapy sessions

I've raised €250 and unlocked my free beanie

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Be the light at the break of dawn

Wicklow walk, May 2025

Last year, as the sun was rising over the horizon, I snapped a photo. The mast of a sailboat almost perfectly divided the rising sun as the sea and sky glowed orange, red, pink and yellow. I sipped my tea on the harbour wall, having finished the 5k walk and felt happy. 

The walk had been emotional. As we set off in darkness, I was pensive. Memories of the previous summer kept surfacing. I didn't want them to and at the same time, with each step I knew that I needed to honour and bring home the parts of me that had been wounded. 

I was walking solo but not alone. Around me, some groups of people chatted, others were, like me, silent. Some people walked to remember those they had lost. Others, in gratitude that our loved ones were still here with us. 

As we crested the hill over the harbour, light started to seep through. A tear slid down my cheek. Life, with all its hardship and trauma was at the same time whole and beautiful.

That previous summer, I often lain awake listening to a Pearl Jam song, Setting Sun. One line in particular resonated so strongly with me,
"We can become one last setting sun
Or be the light at the break of dawn"

That lyric kept me going through those dark times so that I could walk into the light of a new day.

I have hung that photo on my wall, and each time I look at each I remember that journey. It is not over, it may never be.  And I resolved that each year I would continue to walk, to hold that light for others, so that more and more people meet the dawn.

Thank you to my Sponsors

€81

John Savoie

€100

Breege O'neill

well done

€54

Peter Daynes

€107

Charles & Rose

Well done once again Rosemary.

€45

Peter Sproules

Amazing Rosemary!!! Legend you are!!!

€24

Maureen Kearney

€24

Michelle Sheriff

€24

Pádraic And Reenie

€21

Bridget Daynes Dunne

€48

H D

Fair dues Rosemary. You're amazingly selfless.

€20

William Dunne

€54

Karen Doyle

Well done Rosemary

€107

Mary Seery Kearney

Well done with all our love Rosemary xxx Mary Dave and Scarlett xx

€110

Rosemary Kearney

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