Catherine Flood has been in the USA for over 20 years and her contribution to the Irish-American community in New York and her work there organising creative fundraising campaigns have been central to the development and promotion of many programs in New York for numerous charities, most prominently Project Children. She is a devoted volunteer with Project Children for over 25 years and an ardent promoter of the charity’s documentary “How to Defuse a Bomb: A Project Children Story”, an extraordinary tale that celebrates the unsullied hard work and dedication of the Project Children Charity and one of its founding members, Denis Mulcahy, a retired and highly decorated NYPD Bomb Squad Officer. Catherine Flood, who hails from the Truagh, returned from New York to run her 20th marathon proceeds from which she presented to Errigal Truagh Special Needs. Catherine’s run is dedicated to her sister, Eileen, and her friends in the Sppecial Needs Centre at Ballyoisin. Catherine never lost here love of where she came from, and she rediscovered the beauty of her local countryside of the area. She started running at 7.30am and then ran through Carrickroe, Emyvale, Emy Lough, and to crossed the finish line at the Errigal Truagh Special Needs Centre, where a huge crowd waited to congratulate her on a marvellous event for a wonderful cause. Later in the year Catherine will be back in Ireland doing work for Project Children which will take in Northern Ireland and southern Ireland, including Monaghan. We look forward to her visit and we congratulate her for the marvellous work she does.