Marie Keating Foundation Presentation
Presentation of McKesson fund raising cheque for €2,122.08 to the Marie Keating Foundation, March 2019.
Westgate Foundation CSR Event 2018
When I think about our recent CSR trip to the Westgate Foundation in Ballincollig, Cork, the idea of community comes to mind. What is a community? It’s a group of people, who are bonded by something in common (e.g. location, goals, sport, heritage, values, etc.). Between our two very different (yet related) healthcare businesses co-located…
Darkness into Light 2018
Why would a group of people get up from their warm bed to do a 5km walk at 4.15 in the morning? In one word, compassion. That is what a group of McKesson / NorthStar colleagues did, with other groups, at separate locations around Cork; other people did it around the globe as a community of thousands walking together, on Saturday morning, May 12th 2018. The “Darkness into Light” walk is an event…
Coffee, Cake and a Marathon – 3rd June 2018
It all began with the McKesson Wellness challenge (an 8-week walking challenge) a bit of fun and a bit of banter. Little did we know that a short walk would lead to a 26.2-mile marathon. Training began earnestly in February at which stage we all felt confident we would complete the Marathon. Straws were drawn at the multiple meetings to discuss the strategy in…
St Vincent de Paul Society Giving Tree and Hamper Packing
A special Christmas for local families. Every Christmas, McKesson & NorthStar work with St. Vincent de Paul for the annual ‘Giving Tree’ event and this year was no exception. Gifts of all shapes and sizes were generously donated to this extremely worthy cause. We received tags for fifty boys and fifty girls, with names and…
Canfranc Canfranc Aware Challenge
Last September I set out to complete the Canfranc Canfranc Challenge in aid of Aware, a national mental health charity in Ireland providing support services to those experiencing depression. The event itself consists of running 45km across four of the peaks in the Pyrennes Mountains on the Spanish-French border. It’s one of the rising events on the European trail running circuit…
Tour de Munster
As I waited on Patricks Bridge along with 125 other amateur cyclists I was filled with mixed emotions. The Hill was filled full of supporters, banners, flags and shouts of encouragement all accompanied by the pipe band belting out songs of support. I tried to block it all out as I reflected on the last…
Relay For Life Fundraiser
This is my families second year being involved in Relay For Life Midleton. Last year we were on a team but this year we raised our game and I became a committee member and Orla registered a team of 10 fourteen year olds. She needed a team captain so I naturally went to my work…
Westgate Foundation CSR Event 2017
As we sit down to write this, we are still wondering who got more out of this CSR event; was it us or the staff and clients of Westgate? Over a 3-day period starting on July 10th, we grabbed our paint brushes and tools and headed to Westgate in Ballincollig, where we had been given…
Dragon Boat Challenge
On 23rd of July, Team McKesson headed to Lapps Quay in fetching spandex and life jackets, with war paint on our faces. Just to clarify, the annual Dragon Boat Challenge was on! The race is in aid of Meitheal Mara, Cork’s community boatyard and nationally-accredited training centre. The organisation is dedicated to fostering and promoting…