Skydive for Fighting Blindness
TAKE FLIGHT FOR SIGHT
We need daredevils to jump out of a plane! Ok, so you will also get a parachute and will be strapped to your instructor, but will that stop your heart from racing?
After an exhilarating freefall for 35 seconds or so, the parachute opens at around 5,000 feet.
That's when you'll experience the amazing five to seven minutes' thrill of your canopy ride and soak up the most incredible panoramic views. All tandem skydive instructors are fully qualified, undergo rigorous training and a minimum of 500 skydives prior to training.
Why not get a team together and see who can raise the most, or set yourselves a team target?
Pick your time to take to the skies for Fighting Blindness and our facilitators Skydive 4 Charity will do their best to accommodate you.
Sign up now to take flight for sight.
Register online at the Skydive4charity website or fill out this application form and send it to:
You will then receive your Skydive 4 Charity and Fighting Blindness Sponsor Pack and free t-shirt.
To pay for your training, skydive and valuable contribution to Fighting Blindness, we ask that you raise a minimum of €650.
Please note each sponsorship card ordered requires a non-refundable booking deposit of €50.
If you have any questions, please contact our fundraising team on +353 1 709 3050 or fundraising@fightingblindness.ie.
DIRECTIONS to The Irish Parachute Club, Clonbullogue, Co. Offaly.
Clonbullogue, Co. Offaly, is between Edenderry, Co. Offaly & Rathangan, Co. Kildare.
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Coming from Dublin or the South:
- M7 (Naas Rd),
- Take the turn off for Curragh Races/Newbridge/Junction 12 (25 mins from here)
- Head towards the Curragh Race Track.
- About one mile past the racecourse the road swings left with a right turn over a small bridge
- TAKE the RIGHT HAND TURN.
- Come to a staggered crossroads, continue on straight (signposted ‘Rathangan’)
- Into Rathangan, over bridge then keep left, continue up main street then road splits left and right,
- KEEP RIGHT (Edenderry/Rathangan)
- Come to small roundabout ½ mile outside the town, straight through
- (signposted ‘Clonbullogue, Edenderry’)
- Clonbullogue village, TURN LEFT,
- Over bridge,
- Next right, Parachute Centre one mile on left.
Coming from Edenderry Co. Offaly
- Head out the Tullamore Road.
- Just outside Edenderry Town on the Tullamore Road there is a turn signposted ‘Rathangan / Clonbullogue’
- Turn at this junction & continue for roughly seven miles to Clonbullogue Village.
- Enter Clonbullogue, keep right at Town Square
- (Green Area with Richie’s Pub in front of you)
- Go over bridge
- Next right,
- Parachute Centre one mile on left.
PLEASE BE AT THE DROP ZONE (PARACHUTE CENTRE) AT 08:30 AM