*Jimmy Collins. 

LISSYCASEY native Jimmy Collins was honoured for donating blood on 100 different occasions.

At a function at The Greenhills Hotel in Limerick on Friday night, Jimmy who now resides in Barefield was the recipient of a presentation from the Irish Blood Transfusion Board.

They marked the fact that he has donated blood on 100 occasions.

When based in Dublin in the early seventies, Jimmy first donated blood and he continued this practice when he moved to work in Limerick and later to work in Ennis.

At Friday’s function presentations were made to people marking 10, 25, 50 and 100 donations.

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