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Hello flower! Diarmuid Gavin and two little helpers launch Daffodil Day. Andres Poveda

Daffodil Day campaign aims to raise €3.4m

The Irish Cancer Society is hoping to expand its Cancer Information Service which helps patients access the information they need to make decisions about treatment.

THE IRISH CANCER Society is setting itself an ambitious fundraising target in its 50th year in operation. The Society’s CEO John McCormack said that they hoped to raise €3.4 million through this year’s Daffodil Day campaign.

The funding will help expand the services provided by the ICS, especially their Cancer Information Service which reached 200,000 people in 2012. The service reaches patients in hospitals through the ICS’s Daffodil Centres, providing free and confidential information to help them make informed decisions about their treatment. There are seven Daffodil Centres based in hospitals right now, with plans to open seven more in the next two years.

Speaking at the launch of the 26th Daffodil Day – the annual fundraising drive which will take place across Ireland this year on Friday, 22 March – McCormack said:

It is also important for me to thank our volunteers who are the heart of the Society and invest a huge amount of time into making Daffodil Day a success in their communities. For the last 26 years these people have been the lifeblood of our organisation and their continued support is a tribute to what we have achieved during the last 50 years. This continued support is essential to our future success.

The ICS appealed for volunteers to come forward to help out with this year’s campaign – you can support it in a number of ways:

  • Volunteer on Daffodil Day
  • Organise a Daffodil Day event in your community or workplace
  • Buy a daffodil or Daffodil Day merchandise on Daffodil Day in our online shop

Dell is entering its third year partnering with ICS on Daffodil Day and its HR director Caroline Grant said that they hoped to help the Society to reach its ambitious fundraising target this year. Dell employees give volunteering time and expertise on harnessing social media, tech and other issues to aid the campaign, while the company also contributes financially. Grant said:

This has been a fantastic partnership for us and provides an opportunity for our teams in Dublin, Limerick and Cork to work together for a cause that is close to many people’s hearts. We are delighted that we have also been able to tap into our team’s technical capability and creativity to add a number of additional social media activities and consumer campaigns to enrich the campaign even further and hopefully, to help raise additional funds as a result.

Check out TheJournal.ie at lunchtime today for the personal story of one cancer survivor, a mum of two young children, and the questions she needed answered when she was undergoing treatment.

The callsave number if you want to get involved in Daffodil Day is 1850 60 60 60 or click here.

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    Mute Paul Mallon
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    Mar 27th 2012, 7:34 AM

    Poor, poor people. Given LSD with no prior knowledge or experience, must have been like a horror movie.

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    Mute Jamie Rooney
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    Mar 27th 2012, 10:15 PM

    must have been fucking savage!!

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    Mute Martin Jordan
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    Mar 27th 2012, 8:21 AM

    The Irish government used to put it in breakfast rolls and red bull from 2004-2008

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    Mar 27th 2012, 8:34 AM

    Apparently they used to hand it out to those attending tribunals, it helped their abstract creative juices to flow

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    Mute Conor Oneill
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    Mar 27th 2012, 7:26 AM

    LSD is a safe drug unlike cocaine or heroin. It’s actually safer than alcohol or ciggerettes. There is a bbc YouTube documentary about it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRgb5coMXGk&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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    Mar 27th 2012, 7:33 AM

    You’ve never had a bad trip!

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    Mute random
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    Mar 27th 2012, 8:15 AM

    It seems that surprise-LSD is a different beast altogether….

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    Mar 27th 2012, 8:49 AM

    If you want to see just how deep the rabbit hole goes read Tranceformation of America by Cathy O Brien. This is only the tip of the iceberg and will be NOTHING compared to the documents that will never see the light of day or the ones that will be unclassified in the future.

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    Mar 27th 2012, 9:22 AM

    Hallucinogens can be succesfully used to treat depression. They are now finding that Ecstasy, in a controlled setting, is the only successful treatment for US veterans returning to the states from Iraq who are suffering from PTSD brought on by the trauma- to everyone- by war. There was a conference in San Francisco last year on the subject of hallucinogens as psychological treatment. This article is reminiscent of the extreme portrayal of pot in the 1950′s movie called Reefer Madness. God knows the CIA wouldn’t want us all to get our hands on LSD because it can lead to the realisation that authority is a rediculous farce. There is a psychiatrist in Ireland now promoting putting lithium in the drinking water to address depression (that’d be illegal medication without consent) but if that extreme thought is being entertained–maybe acid would be a better additive. Of course I’m joking :-)

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    Mar 27th 2012, 11:20 AM

    I think LSD should me mandatory on your 18th birthday.

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    Mute B7584
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    Mar 27th 2012, 12:04 PM

    The use of MDMA has been well known for a long time in treating PTSD & emotional issues.

    EVERYBODY should try a trip, even a half a trip just once.

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    Mute Shanti Om
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    Mar 27th 2012, 3:21 PM

    @ Paul, certain tribes such as the Bwiti tribe in Cameroon use hallucinogens (or in this case as it is deemed sacred, an entheogen) such as Iboga as a rite of passage into adulthood. The experience is supposed to encourage empathy and compassion by inducing a sort of “life review” where the person experiences their life from the point of view of those around them.

    There was a show ages ago on BBC called “Tribe” where the film maker went to stay with them and did the Iboga ceremony, it’s worth a look if you can track it down..

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    Mar 27th 2012, 10:19 PM

    to be honest, I’d bet heavily that the flouride in water is the source of a lot of the nation’s depression and subservience!
    An irony about MDMA (ecstacy to all y’all), is that it was given/tested on US soldiers in Korea and Vietnam in the name of trying to achieve the perfect soldier…. one without fear and without a need for sleep.
    ReeferMadness was complete right-wing propoganda, same as the news coverage of the same topics still remains today!

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    Mar 27th 2012, 8:34 AM

    Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds :D

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    Mar 27th 2012, 9:07 AM

    sounds like something out of fringe… was it doctor bishop running the experiments??

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    Mar 27th 2012, 7:35 AM

    Bet Dr Olsens family doesn’t think that!!

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    Mar 27th 2012, 1:21 PM

    Why is it that people are willing to believe this but won’t believe the FBI report that said there were no phone calls from the 911 passengers because It wasn’t technically possible. The only evidence of box cutters come from a call that the FBI say didn’t happen..

    Olson’s Story Contradicted by the FBI

    The most serious official contradiction of Ted Olson’s story came in 2006 at the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called 20th hijacker. The evidence presented to this trial by the FBI included a report on phone calls from all four 9/11 flights. In its report on American Flight 77, the FBI report attributed only one call to Barbara Olson and it was an “unconnected call,” which (of course) lasted “0 seconds.” According to the FBI, therefore, Ted Olson did not receive a single call from his wife using either a cell phone or an onboard phone.

    Back on 9/11, the FBI itself had interviewed Olson. A report of that interview indicates that Olson told the FBI agents that his wife had called him twice from Flight 77. 10 And yet the FBI’s report on calls from Flight 77, presented in 2006, indicated that no such calls occurred.

    This was an amazing development: The FBI is part of the Department of Justice, and yet its report undermined the well-publicized claim of the DOJ’s former solicitor general that he had received two calls from his wife on 9/11. – globalresearch

    Food for thought…

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    Mar 27th 2012, 7:53 AM

    Now it’s lariam….. But what’s more frightening….. It’s prescribed

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    Mar 27th 2012, 10:22 AM

    This has been known for some time hasn’t it?

    I’ve been reading about this for the last near five years alone with documentation available then along with details via a dad that sued the USA government over the effects it had on his son.

    Crazy stuff that I suspect we only know 5% at most, what the hell they were – are? – doing!

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    Mar 27th 2012, 9:32 AM

    Here’s a good link about CIA experiments in France were 7 people died as a result.
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/7415082/French-bread-spiked-with-LSD-in-CIA-experiment.html

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    Mar 27th 2012, 8:47 PM

    The Dr. Olsen mentioned was a member of Gottleib’s team who was apparently going to blow the whistle according to Jon Ronson’s ‘The Men Who Stared At Goats’ (which later became an incredibly shit film).

    Olsen’s death is also the source of the myth that LSD, Mushrooms and other hallucinogenics make you believe you can fly.

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    Mar 27th 2012, 1:42 PM

    This 1974 “Family Jewels Report” deals mainly with domestic CIA abuses but some of the documents are staggering http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB222/index.htm

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