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16/04/2026

Your club has shown up for championships and county finals, for fundraising nights and club socials, for the matches that mattered and the ones that were played in the lashing rain with nobody watching from the side-line. The GAA has always been about more than the game itself. It has been about the community that gathers around it, the bonds that form in training and in dressing rooms and in the clubhouse afterwards, and the quiet but powerful understanding that when something matters, you show up together.

This May, there is a morning that matters, and we are calling on every GAA club and Irish county association in London and Bedfordshire to answer it as only they know how. Darkness into Light takes place at 4:15am on Saturday, 9th May, across four locations, Cricklewood, Clapham, Hazelwood and Luton, and this year we are extending a direct invitation to every GAA club and county association in the region to register as a group and walk together.

Mental health is a conversation that the GAA has been working hard to open in recent years, and walking as a club on 9th May is one of the most visible and meaningful ways your group can demonstrate that the conversation is not just open but active within your own community.

If your club or county association is ready to be part of this, group registration is now open. Choose your nearest walk, Cricklewood, Clapham, Hazelwood or Luton, gather your members, and show up on 9th May the way your club always does. Together, and with purpose.

https://eventmaster.ie/event/b9GRS9AHjr

This year’s annual darkness into light walks in London and Luton will continue to support the work of icap and support Pieta House’s free life-saving services. Each year funds that are raised go to support therapy hours at icap and Pieta House, and organisers are hoping to build on this success with even greater participation in 2026. Your support is essential for us to continue our work in helping our communities at home in Ireland and here in the UK to navigate loss, loneliness, mental health challenges and suicidal thoughts with culturally sensitive care that truly understands their experience.

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14/04/2026

It would be easy to look at Darkness into Light and to see it as just a walk. An early morning, an alarm set before the sun rises, a crowd of people moving through the streets together as the sky changes colour above them. And while all of that is true, and while the morning itself is genuinely extraordinary, what happens after the walk is over is where the real story of this event lives. Because the funds raised by your registration do not stay in a spreadsheet. They move. They travel directly into the hands of two charities that are providing therapy, counselling and life-changing support to Irish people in the UK who need it most.

When you register for the walk, you become a part of the support. You become one of the people who make the sessions possible, who kept the door open, who ensured that somewhere in London or Bedfordshire, a person who needed help was able to find it without having to worry about the cost.

Register now and join us at 4:15am on Saturday, 9th May at whichever of the four walks is closest to you, Cricklewood, Clapham, Hazelwood or Luton. Your registration is more than a morning. It is a lifeline for someone who needs one.

https://eventmaster.ie/event/b9GRS9AHjr

This year’s annual darkness into light walks in London and Luton will continue to support the work of icap and support Pieta House’s free life-saving services. Each year funds that are raised go to support therapy hours at icap and Pieta House, and organisers are hoping to build on this success with even greater participation in 2026. Your support is essential for us to continue our work in helping our communities at home in Ireland and here in the UK to navigate loss, loneliness, mental health challenges and suicidal thoughts with culturally sensitive care that truly understands their experience.

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13/04/2026

1 week to go until ‘Ballroom Boom’ screening on Mon 20 April!

A feature documentary exploring Irish music before U2 presented by Adam Clayton (U2) & directed by Billy McGrath who will both be in attendance on the night!

Tickets for this amazing event are now available via the link below:
https://electricballroom.seetickets.com/event/ballroom-boom/electric-ballroom/3618579

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13/04/2026

There are very few tickets left for this highly anticipated Irish music event.

On the 20th of April, the Electric Ballroom in Camden opens its doors for Ballroom Boom, an evening of classic Irish ballroom music, hosted in aid of icap, featuring a screening of the acclaimed documentary fronted by U2's Adam Clayton. The same Electric Ballroom where Irish showbands once played to packed houses of Irish emigrants in the 1960s. The same building, but now a very different era. And one extraordinary night to bring it all back.

On the night you can expect to listen to the music that shaped a generation, a screening of the documentary fronted by U2's Adam Clayton exploring the golden era of the Irish showband, and a room full of people who fully appreciate this amazing genre of music. You will also be supporting icap, the only mental health charity in the UK offering free or heavily subsidised culturally sensitive therapy to the Irish community.

Seats are selling fast so get click the link here and secure your place: https://electricballroom.co.uk/ballroom-boom/

12/04/2026

Think for a moment about someone in your life who has struggled in silence. Someone who carried something heavy for longer than they should have, not because they did not want help, but because asking for it felt impossibly difficult. Maybe they didn't know where to turn, because the services available did not quite speak their language, or because the distance from home made everything feel just a little bit harder to navigate. For many Irish people living in the UK, this is a reality that is playing out in homes, flats and shared houses every single day, and it is precisely the reality that your registration helps to change.

The funds generated from Darkness into Light go directly to two organisations that exist to ensure that no Irish person has to face their darkest moments alone. Pieta House provides professional therapy to individuals experiencing suicidal distress, to those who self-harm, and to families who are grieving the loss of a loved one to su***de.

icap delivers counselling and therapy that is designed specifically with the Irish community in mind. That distinction matters more than it might first appear. The experience of being Irish living abroad carries its own particular emotional landscape. icap understands that landscape intimately, and its services are built to meet people within it, offering care that does not require you to explain yourself from the beginning but instead starts from a place of cultural understanding.

Register now and walk with us at 4:15am on 9th May across Cricklewood, Clapham, Hazelwood or Luton: https://eventmaster.ie/event/b9GRS9AHjr

This year’s annual darkness into light walks in London and Luton will continue to support the work of icap and support Pieta House’s free life-saving services. Each year funds that are raised go to support therapy hours at icap and Pieta House, and organisers are hoping to build on this success with even greater participation in 2026. Your support is essential for us to continue our work in helping our communities at home in Ireland and here in the UK to navigate loss, loneliness, mental health challenges and suicidal thoughts with culturally sensitive care that truly understands their experience.

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11/04/2026

There is something quietly powerful about the idea that on the same morning, at the same hour, in four different corners of London and Bedfordshire, the Irish community will be doing the same thing. Not watching from a distance. Not reading about it afterwards. Walking. Together. Into the light.

If you have been wondering whether Darkness into Light is something you could be part of this year, the answer is closer to you than you might think. In 2026, the walks come to Cricklewood, Clapham, Hazelwood and Luton, and wherever you are in the South East of England, one of those four locations will not be far from your front door.

Darkness into Light was created by Pieta House as an annual act of solidarity with everyone affected by su***de and self-harm. For those who have lost someone, those who are struggling themselves, and those who simply believe that mental health deserves to be spoken about honestly and supported properly. The walks begin at 4:15am, in the dark early morning, and it ends as the sun rises. A journey that is as symbolic as it is physical, and one that leaves participants with a sense of having done something that genuinely matters.

This year's walks is building steadily, and across all four locations, group registrations are coming in from GAA clubs, county associations, workplaces and friendship circles. And with each new registration the walk grows stronger, more visible and more impactful.

All four walks are open for registration right now. Whether its Cricklewood, Clapham, Hazelwood or Luton, choose the sunrise that is closest to you. Register today, and be part of the morning that your community is already building toward on 9th May: https://eventmaster.ie/event/b9GRS9AHjr

Pieta. Ending Su***de. Beginning Hope Darkness Into Light London Darkness into Light Clapham Common Darkness Into Light Luton

This year’s annual darkness into light walks in London and Luton will continue to support the work of icap and support Pieta House’s free life-saving services. Each year funds that are raised go to support therapy hours at icap and Pieta House, and organisers are hoping to build on this success with even greater participation in 2026. Your support is essential for us to continue our work in helping our communities at home in Ireland and here in the UK to navigate loss, loneliness, mental health challenges and suicidal thoughts with culturally sensitive care that truly understands
their experience.

09/04/2026

Register now via the link in our bio.

09/04/2026

09/04/2026

At exactly 4:15am on Saturday, 9th May, something remarkable will happen simultaneously in four corners of London and Bedfordshire. In Cricklewood, Clapham, Hazelwood and Luton, hundreds of Irish men and women will take their first steps into the darkness together, and over the course of the next hour, as the sky above each of those four locations shifts from night into morning, every single one of them will arrive in the light.

Four communities. Four sunrises. One shared act of solidarity, hope and courage that stretches across the South East of England and connects every participant to something far greater than themselves.

This is Darkness into Light, and if you have been thinking about taking part this year, the time to register is now. The walks are building momentum with each passing week, and across all four locations Irish people from across the region are already signing up and committing to one of the most meaningful mornings of their year.

Registration is open now. Choose your location, secure your place, and join the growing number of people across London and Bedfordshire who have already decided that 9th May is a morning worth getting up early for: https://eventmaster.ie/event/b9GRS9AHjr

Pieta. Ending Su***de. Beginning Hope Darkness Into Light London Darkness into Light Clapham Common Darkness Into Light Luton

This year’s annual darkness into light walks in London and Luton will continue to support the work of icap and support Pieta House’s free life-saving services. Each year funds that are raised go to support therapy hours at icap and Pieta House, and organisers are hoping to build on this success with even greater participation in 2026. Your support is essential for us to continue our work in helping our communities at home in Ireland and here in the UK to navigate loss, loneliness, mental health challenges and suicidal thoughts with culturally sensitive care that truly understands
their experience.

07/04/2026

On Saturday the 9th of May, as the sun rises above the streets of Cricklewood, over the rooftops of Clapham, across the open skies of Hazelwood, and along the early morning horizon of Luton, a community of Irish men and women will be gathered together, walking into that light as one. The only question is which one of those communities you will be standing with when it happens.

The Darkness into Light walks return to all four locations, Cricklewood, Clapham, Hazelwood and Luton, beginning at 4:15am as the world is still sleeping and the sky is at its darkest. The event was founded by Pieta House, Ireland's leading charity for su***de prevention and self-harm support, and every walk, regardless of where it takes place, carries the same meaning, the same purpose and the same profound sense of community.

Cricklewood, Clapham, Hazelwood or Luton, four locations, one sunrise, one community. Choose yours and secure your place before this year's walks fill up. Visit the link to find your nearest walk and register today: https://eventmaster.ie/event/b9GRS9AHjr

Pieta. Ending Su***de. Beginning Hope Darkness into Light Clapham Common Darkness Into Light Luton

This year’s annual darkness into light walks in London and Luton will continue to support the work of icap and support Pieta House’s free life-saving services. Each year funds that are raised go to support therapy hours at icap and Pieta House, and organisers are hoping to build on this success with even greater participation in 2026. Your support is essential for us to continue our work in helping our communities at home in Ireland and here in the UK to navigate loss, loneliness, mental health challenges and suicidal thoughts with culturally sensitive care that truly understands
their experience.

30/03/2026

Can you picture yourself here? Standing among hundreds of people as the first light of morning breaks across the London skyline, the air still cool from the night before, the world around you just beginning to stir. The people beside you are strangers who feel like neighbours, Irish men and women from Cricklewood and Clapham, from Luton and Hazelwood, who set their alarms before dawn and showed up. They showed up not because it was easy, but because it mattered. This photograph was taken at last year's Darkness into Light walk, and it captures something that no caption can fully do justice to. It captures what it feels like to be part of something genuinely important.

Darkness into Light is an annual fundraising walk that begins at 4:15am, in the quiet hours before sunrise, and ends as the light of a new morning fills the sky. It was founded by Pieta House, Ireland's foremost charity for su***de prevention and self-harm support, and every year it brings together the Irish community in the South East of England to raise vital funds and to stand, collectively and publicly, against the silence that surrounds mental health struggles and su***de.

The funds raised from the London and Luton walks go directly to support Pieta House and icap, the UK-based Irish charity that provides culturally sensitive counselling and therapy to Irish people living in Britain. icap is a charity of people who understand that building a life far from home is not always as straightforward as it looks from the outside.

On Saturday, 9th May, we will gather again across four locations, Cricklewood, Clapham, Hazelwood and Luton, and it will be even larger, even stronger, and even more powerful than before. Your place is waiting. Register now and join us at 4:15am on 9th May: https://eventmaster.ie/event/b9GRS9AHjr

Pieta. Ending Su***de. Beginning Hope Darkness Into Light London Darkness into Light Clapham Common Darkness Into Light Luton

The annual Darkness into Light walks, in London and Luton, continue to support the work of icap and Pieta House in Ireland. Your support is essential for us to continue our work in helping our community to navigate loss, loneliness, mental health challenges and suicidal thoughts with culturally sensitive care that truly understands their experience.

27/03/2026

Every great community event begins with a room full of people who believe in something enough to give their time to it. Last night, that room was in the Crown Hotel in Cricklewood, and the occasion was the official launch of the 2026 Darkness into Light London and Luton walks. Organisers, volunteers and local Irish community leaders came together to mark the beginning of what promises to be one of the most attended event in the Irish community calendar this year.

For those who are new to Darkness into Light, it is an annual fundraising walk founded by Pieta House, Ireland's leading organisation for su***de prevention and self-harm support, that has grown into a global symbol of solidarity, hope and community. This year, the walk takes place on Saturday, 9th May, beginning at 4:15am across four locations in London and Bedfordshire: Cricklewood, Clapham, Hazelwood and Luton. The 4:15am start is not incidental. It is the beating heart of the experience. Participants walk while it is still dark and arrive in the light of a new dawn, a journey that mirrors, in the most human way possible, the experience of moving through darkness toward hope.

Register now at the link in our bio and choose your location; Cricklewood, Clapham, Hazelwood or Luton: https://eventmaster.ie/event/b9GRS9AHjr

The annual Darkness into Light walks, in London and Luton, continue to support the work of icap and Pieta House in Ireland. Your support is essential for us to continue our work in helping our community to navigate loss, loneliness, mental health challenges and suicidal thoughts with culturally sensitive care that truly understands their experience.

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