About The Duck Push
28 years of Kids helping Kids!
The boys at Clongowes first started pushing ducks along the 265km route in 1993 to raise funds for life saving medical equipment for Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital and have raised over €2.2 million to date. Equipment purchased has included an Ocular Coherence Tomography Machine for the Eye Department, a Getinge Autoclave for the Microbiology Laboratory and a Sepak Tissue Processor to help children who need bone marrow transplants.
Duck Push 2023
In 2019 for example The Duck Push aimed to fund a Hitachi Noblus Portable Ultrasound machine. Every year, the Radiology Department in Crumlin Children’s Hospital perform in the region of 8,000 examinations on sick children from all over Ireland. Ultrasound machines are used to diagnose many conditions such as hydrocephalus, obstructed kidneys, appendicitis, lymphoma and many other childhood cancers. The portable ultrasound in Crumlin Children’s Hospital was 13 years old and the team had been waiting for several years to have it replaced. The support and generosity of the public during the Clongowes Duck Push enabled the boys to provide a new machine to the hospital.
This year the Transition Year group once again aim to raise enough funds to purchase a piece of equipment which will significantly improve the quality of care for children attending the hospital.
About the Project
Chris Lumb, Headmaster at Clongowes Wood College : “The annual Duck Push is a reflection of the ethos of the College encouraging boys to be Men for Others – working to help those in the community in such a practical and worthwhile way. The boys should be very proud of the hard work and effort that it takes to undertake the Duck Push and also the great cause they are supporting.”
Lisa Nicole Dunne, CEO of CMRF Crumlin ( 2018 ) “We are delighted that students from Clongowes Wood College have continued to support us so generously year on year. Events such as this help ensure that the one million children who will require support, care and treatment at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin, over the next 5 – 6 years can benefit from the best possible environment, with the best equipment and access to cutting edge research. Despite a new hospital on the horizon these children cannot and should not have to wait. Thank you to all those who have both organised and will participate in this great event, we are extremely grateful.”
About CMRF Crumlin
CMRF Crumlin is the fundraising body for Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin as well as the National Children’s Research Centre and is dedicated to working to improve the quality of life for this and future generations of sick children. It is driven in its belief that “Every sick child deserves every chance.”
At the core of CMRF Crumlin is a desire to help every sick child to give them the best possible chance to survive, thrive and live to their potential. It is focused on supporting small miracles everyday by funding cutting edge research, new wards and upgrades together with patient experience through our Giggle Fund.
CMRF Crumlin play a key role in supporting the hospital funding, to deliver state of the art facilities, equipment, and infrastructure, accommodation for families and other special requirements and needs for some of Ireland’s sickest children.
In addition CMRF is the principle funder of vital paediatric research in Ireland through the research programmes at The National Children’s Research Centre (NCRC), a world class facility which provides state of the art laboratory facilities for investigation into the causes and treatments of childhood disease.
Raising funds entirely from the public, companies and philanthropic organisations, CMRF Crumlin and its supporters aim to ensure every sick child gets every chance and provides funding to support small victories every day, better outcomes and a better experience for children attending Crumlin.