Charlie Bird promises to walk Darkness Into Light despite fall

In an earlier tweet, Mr Bird had said meeting the Boss was the “one thing” in his bucket list he had yet to tick off.

“I would love to meet Bruce Springsteen when he is here. I want ‘Land of Hope and Dreams’ to be played at my funeral,’ he tweeted. “This is mad, but I go to sleep nearly every night playing this song, along with ‘The Parting Glass’,” he said.Last April he climbed Croagh Patrick to raise money for Pieta House and the Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association . Walks and climbs took place across Ireland and resulted in over €3.6 million being raised for the charities.

At an event to mark the anniversary of the charity event last month, Bird said the diagnosis of a terminal illness had been “very traumatic for me and my family” but he pointed to “an incredible silver lining as well. I have got to know the crucial work of many groups of charities”. “I keep repeating this, as long as I have a breath in my body,” he said. “I am going to keep extending the hand of friendship. I have been blessed by the amount of support I have received from all over the country and abroad, and I want to thank those people by continuing to work hard for everyone.”

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