{"id":7879,"date":"2020-05-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svp.matrix-test.com\/article\/svp-thanks-the-irish-people-after-late-late-show-plea-raises-over-1-1-million\/"},"modified":"2024-05-23T10:58:31","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T09:58:31","slug":"svp-thanks-the-irish-people-after-late-late-show-plea-raises-over-1-1-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.svp.ie\/news\/svp-thanks-the-irish-people-after-late-late-show-plea-raises-over-1-1-million\/","title":{"rendered":"SVP thanks the Irish people after Late Late Show plea raises over \u20ac1.1 million"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Society of St Vincent de Paul (SVP) today sincerely thanks the Irish people for so generously donating over \u20ac1.1 million since the airing of the Late Late Show featuring Daniel and Majella O\u2019Donnell in support of the charity on Friday night.<\/p>\n
\nDaniel and Majella were interviewed live on the show by host Ryan Tubridy and described the current situation members of the Society are seeing around the country as a result of the pandemic.<\/p>\n
Asking the Irish public to support the charity, Majella shared a letter from a parent struggling to pay for basic food items after their small business closed in recent weeks: \u201cI felt hesitant to look for help but decided to swallow my pride. The first I thought to contact was St Vincent de Paul. I looked up your local number online and phoned you. I explained my situation (and became a little upset doing so as I hadn't talked to anyone about it). The person on the line was understanding and considerate and promised to have some help for me that very day. I felt a great weight lifted off me immediately. You followed through on that promise and have been a great help over the last couple of weeks<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u201cWhen my Covid-19 payment application was refused, I was down to my last few euro and I actually borrowed some money from my children aged 13 and 16 to buy some bread, milk and cheese<\/em>,\u201d\u00a0Majella read from the letter.<\/p>\n