A mum of six battling brain cancer is among an army of protesters insisting bingo is a lifeline which communities can’t do without.The Save Our Bingo group bussed in hundreds of players for a protest which saw them holding games outside the gates of Leinster House yesterday morning.
Julie Keating has undergone major brain surgery and said bingo has gives her an outlet that helps her cope.“This is the only thing that helps me take my mind off things. I’m from Coolock in Dublin but I go to Whitehall.“I’ll be devastated if it goes. I’m going to Whitehall bingo 14 years, since I was pregnant with my second child. It’s been a part of my life.”The 66-year-old added: “I go to Drimnagh but I come all the way from Blanchardstown, because“I used to do sport and I retired.
Marie Wilson, who goes to Whitehall Bingo, said: “I don’t smoke and I don’t drink so that’s my outlet.“There’s always jokes going around, we are showing photographs of our grandchildren to each other.The mum of three was forced to retire early due to heart disease.“We have two women who sit with us, one is 93 and the other is 89 and they said that if they didn’t have bingo they’d end up in a nursing home because their brains are kept alive because of the bingo and its company.
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