The Lincoln Film Premiere

I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to attend the Movie Premiere of Lincoln directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Wicklow’s Daniel Day-Lewis last night, the 20th of January 2013! The whole event was organised to raise money for the Wicklow Hospice Foundation. It was a great night and it was so wonderful to see and witness the generosity of the people attending and I don’t just mean the celebrity’s but the ordinary folk too. The film itself was superb, in the way that a film just takes you to another place and you forget everything around you and just get so involved and lost in the script! I gave my ticket up so Michael D (our President) could attend as the whole event was totally over-subscribed and they didn’t have a ticket for him!! The dinner was really nice and entertainment throughout was fabulous. Micheal O’Mhuircheartaigh was the MC for the night and he did a wonderful job and really added some dry humour to the task as well as good crowd control! I was particularly blown away by Sinead O’Connor. I’m not really a die-hard fan of hers, but she was AMAZING. Her voice and the emotion she put into her songs was just breath taking. Our neighbour Chris De Burgh also came along and sang a few tunes and got everyone dancing. Shane McGowan sang, aptly, Danny Boy. Athletes Katie Taylor and Fionnuala Britton attended, Katie Taylor’s signed boxing gloves went up for auction, making €2,700.

Bono and The Edge were also there and they got involved in a bidding war with Steven Spielberg for Bono’s “Peter and The Wolf” drawings, which I think Steven Spielberg clinched it in the end. It was very exciting with a big cheer going up every time a new bid was placed by any one of them! In the end the drawings sold for €42,000. The auction raised about €150,000 which I’m sure will be a great help to the Wicklow Hospice. They are such a good charity to support, as all charities are, it meant so much to me to be there and I am just so humbled by the generous spirit of everyone involved.