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Mary Immaculate Students’ Union & Mid-West Simon launch the MISU Community Giving Tree on Limerick Campus

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MISU Community Giving Tree – Professor Dermot Nestor, President of Mary Immaculate College (MIC), Nat Horan, Vice-President Student Experience & Wellbeing of Mary I Students’ Union (MISU), Niall Garvey, CEO of Mid-West Simon Community & Paul O’Sullivan, Fundraising Coordinator of Mid-West Simon Community.

MISU Community Giving Tree will bring happiness to children who are engaged in the Mid-West Simon Community network

MISU Community Giving Tree

Mary Immaculate Students’ Union (MISU), in partnership with Mid-West Simon Community, is proud to announce the launch of the MISU Community Giving Tree initiative for 2025.

The MISU Community Giving Tree initiative, now in its third year, is a fundraising endeavour designed to raise awareness and through gift donations, bring happiness to children who are engaged in the Mid-West Simon Community network and are affected by homelessness this Christmas period.

Launched by Mid-West Simon Community’s Paul O’Sullivan, Niall Garvey (CEO), and MISU’s Vice-President Student Experience & Wellbeing Nat Horan on 25 November 2025, the Giving Tree invites students, staff, and members of the wider MIC communities in Limerick and Thurles to take a tag from the tree, purchase a gift based on the child’s age and gender on the tag, and return the donation to the MISU Office’s, available on both campuses. The donated gifts will then be collected by Mid-West Simon Community and distributed directly to the children in need ahead of Christmas.


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“MISU are thrilled to be partnering with the Mid West Simon Community once again this year to host the annual MISU ‘Giving Tree’ initiative for 2025.

This is our third year running a Giving Tree across both the Limerick and Thurles Campuses and we are delighted to be able to give back to an organisation who has been so generous is helping us to facilitate both food parcels and a new food pantry on campus to support our students.

MIC staff, students and the wider MIC communities have been hugely supportive to this initiative the last two years and so we hope everyone will turn out again this year to support a truly worthy cause and help bring happiness to children affected by homelessness this Christmas through gift donations,” said Nat Horan at the launch of the Giving Tree.

To get involved with this initiative, simply find our Christmas Trees on the Limerick and Thurles Campuses, take a tag from the tree, purchase a gift, and return it to the MISU Offices by the relevant closing dates for each campus.

The Limerick Campus is located in the TARA Forum, the same building that houses the Lime Tree theatre, and the date for return of gifts is Tuesday, 16 December 2025 by 5:00 pm.

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