During the summer, the Dillon Quirke foundation came to the club for three days and with the help of a number of parents, the club facilitated cardiac screening by Dillon Quirke foundation. Over 100 children between the ages of 12 – 18 were screened free of charge. The club encouraged parents to make contributions to the foundation as a gesture of goodwill to enable the foundation continue with the work that they do nationwide. The Club collected over €1500. We were the first GAA Club in the country that the foundation spent three full days with !! Pictured below are players Tom Sexton, Ciara Killeen and Daniel Nerney with a cheque for the Dillon Quirke Foundation.
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But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?
