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Congratulations Ciara and Una on completing the Cork Mini Marathon. CPA are very grateful to you both for raising funds and awareness of Parkinson’s. Donation page is still open so you can still recognise Ciara and Una’s achievement!

Una and Mum Ciara after completing the Mini Marathon. Like many people I didn’t know much about Parkinson’s disease…

Gougane Barra – revisited

A big shoutout to Stella for organising another brilliant day in Gougane Barra and for arranging the fine weather…

€8,000 donation from DD Williamson

I had the honour of accompanying John & Margaret Curtin yesterday to John’s former employer DDW Colour. There were two reasons for…

“I live with Parkinson’s rather than suffer from it.”
Ted Horgan

“My wife says I am like a box of chocolates, she never quite knows what she is going to get on a given day”
Tony Wilkinson

“It’s a condition where you’re at your worst when you want to be at your best.”

“People aren’t fully aware of the nature of Parkinson’s … they would view it as mental difficulty as opposed to a physical one.”

“Parkinson’s manifests itself differently in all of us. My particular brand is defined by particularly visual symptoms which are balanced perfectly by a strong and cheerful attitude which many would describe as ‘blind optimism’.”
Tom Isaacs, author of Shaken Not Stirred

“90% health care happens outside the hospital.
90% funding is allocated to the hospital.”