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25 Oct 2025

School kids make generous donation to Clonmel Community Soup Kitchen and Food Bank

Children from St Mary's Parochial School donated food they collected during the school's harvest festival to the community group

School kids make generous donation to Clonmel Community Soup Kitchen and Food Bank

Children from St Mary’s Parochial School in Clonmel donating food they collected for the school’s harvest festival to Clonmel Soup Kitchen and Free Food Bank

Clonmel Community Soup Kitchen and Free Food Bank received a very welcome donation of food from the children of the town’s St Mary’s Parochial School last week.

The pupils of the national school on Clonmel’s Western Road presented the food donations they collected as part of the school’s harvest festival to the community group at Old St Mary’s Church on Mary Street on Thursday, October 16. 

Anne Kerton of Clonmel Community Soup Kitchen and Food Bank, said she and her fellow volunteers wish to thank the children of St Mary’s Parochial School very much for the food they donated.

“It was a lovely thing for the children to do,” she told The Nationalist.

The soup kitchen and free food bank was founded 10 years ago by Ina Doyle and Amanda Quigley and is based at Clonmel Railway Station.

The group’s volunteers accept food donations and pack shopping bags of food on Thursdays between 11am and 12noon.

The food bags are available for collection at the station between 9.30am and 12.15pm on Fridays. Food donations are also accepted on Fridays.

“We have over 120 people coming to collect food from us each week,” said Anne.

Check out Clonmel Community Soup Kitchen and Food Bank’s Facebook page or contact (087) 320 1256 for more information on how to donate food or receive food donations.

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