Hooky in the pink for cancer charities

A Fiat 500 1.2 Pop donated by Fiat Ireland raised €30,000 in raffle ticket sales at the recent 'Ireland Stand Up to Cancer' gala charity ball in Dublin.

Sally Anne Sherry from Ballsbridge, Dublin, won the car at the event, held in the new Conference Centre.

Celebrity attendees included Louis Walsh; Norma Smurfit; Aprés Match’s Barry Murphy and his TV presenter wife Flo McSweeney; restauranteurs Sally Anne and Derry Clarke and Newstalk’s George Hook, pictured above alongside an appropriately pink Fiat 500 show car.

Around €250,000 was raised on the night, with proceeds going to the All Ireland Cooperative Oncology Research Group, Friends of St Luke’s Hospital, The Children’s Cancer Fund, Our Lady’s Hospital Crumlin, and The Marie Keating Foundation.