Advertisement
The World Is Their Oyster

News

The World Is Their Oyster

98FM
98FM

08:07 23 Feb 2014


Share this article


 

The final hours of Jailbreak are upon 90 Irish students who yesterday morning set out to get as far away from Ireland with no money, for charity.

Over 20,000 euro has been raised so far for the St. Vincent de Paul and Amnesty International.

Students from UCD and Trinity are using their powers of persuasion to get flight tickets across the globe and some are even attempting to get to Australia by tonight.

Corporate firms have been helping out and Head of Amnesty Ireland, Colm O'Gorman has praised the students efforts:

Fola O'Brien is in Trinity's HQ and says they are 24 hours into the challenge and students are spread out all over the world:

 The Head of Amnesty Ireland has praised the 300 students taking part in the jailbreak challenge.

Over 20 thousand euro has been raised for the charities so far.

Colm O’Gorman says it's one of the most innovative fundraiser's he's ever seen.


Share this article


Read more about

News

You might like