Pictures: Now that's Very Pink Run in Kilkenny!

The annual Very Pink Run newly sponsored by Very took place in Kilkenny Castle Park on Sunday.

The event runs across Ireland to October 8 this year, with another live event taking place in the brand new location of MTU Cork on Sunday, October 8. For those that didn’t make it to Kilkenny and can’t make it to the Cork event, participants can still take part virtually, by undertaking either 10k or 5k in their own local areas with the aim of raising funds to support Breast Cancer Ireland’s research and awareness programmes nationally.  

The amount raised to date over the last number of years is €6 million (excluding this year’s event) which has helped support pioneering research across Ireland – ultimately aimed at developing new and more effective targeted therapies for patients diagnosed with breast cancer. 

Over the last number of weeks, several well-known faces have joined the ‘pink tribe’ encouraging people to register including singer Daniel O’Donnell along with Kilkenny’s own Bobby Kerr, Entrepreneur, Broadcaster and Newstalk Presenter, Kieran Cuddihy, Newstalk Presenter.

Also involved were Lorraine Keane, Broadcaster and TV Presenter (and her daughters Emilia and Romy) who is a long standing Breast Cancer Ireland Ambassador, along with former Irish international rugby player Shane Byrne, FM104’s Crossy (Thomas Crosse), Virgin Media presenters Kamal Ibrahim, Ciara Doherty, and Zeinab Elguzouli, and RTE Presenter Sarah Jane O’Regan amongst others. They join the many thousands who have been impacted by the disease in this country as they pound the pavements and parks of Ireland, and overseas, in support of the cause.