Killea man Gary Crossan hands renal unit over €5,000 in memory of Gerry Lennon

Killea man Gary Crossan presented over €5,000 to the renal unit of Letterkenny University Hospital after a mammoth fundraising effort in honour of a close friend.

The former Finn Harps winger clocked up over 600km in October in memory of Gerry Lennon.

His gruelling fundraiser totalled 415km on a bike, a 5km run each day amounting to 155km and 1km a day of a walk adding a further 31km to his tally.

Crossan raised €5,075 and the proceeds were given to the patient comfort fund with WIFI, TVs and iPads to be got for patients.

“Gerry lived just four doors away from us, he really was like a brother and his mother was like a second mother to us, so this is sort of on behalf of all of the Crossan family and his friends,” Crossan, now a coach with the Finn Harps Academy 2010s, told Donegal Live.

“Gerry travelled up to the Renal Unit in Letterkenny three days a week. He would get a taxi up at seven in the morning and come back after a few hours of dialysis. He did that for nine years.”

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Across five seasons at Finn Park from his debut in 2003, Crossan scored eight goals in 76 games. Most recently, he has been playing for Kildrum Tigers in the Donegal League Premier Division.