Sarah’s amazing journey marked one year on with special fundraising walk
“Sarah’s Journey” fundraising campaign launched on www.gofundme.com in aid of the National Maternity Hospital Foundation and the Neonatal Unit in Letterkenny University Hospital
Reporter:
13 Apr 2021
Baby Sarah Barrett pictured with her mother Claire, brothers Charlie and Conor and father Jason at home in Portnoo, Co Donegal );
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A Carrick-on-Shannon woman has launched a fundraising walk just one year after the extraordinary story of the birth of her daughter Sarah that entailed a 240 Km dash to Dublin, a ten week stay in a Dublin hospital, an emergency section and all with the background of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Arriving at the Porter family farm near Malin Head on the Inishowen Peninsula, you’re greeted by the unusual sight of three Pedigree Highland cattle grazing in the field.
And if these were not a strange enough sight, if you look closely you’ll spot two Pedigree Highland twin calves, staying close to their mother.
Lockdown has brought a lot of changes to the Porters life and work. In normal times 39 year-old Robert leaves home in the early hours of Monday morning to go to work in Dublin, where he has a construction business.
His father Maurice, a sprightly 76-year-old, looks after everything until his son returns late on a Wednesday night or a Thursday when he gets stuck in down on the farm again.