The initiative began with ten enthusiastic volunteers in October 2011, and now, fifteen months later, Limerick Local Heroes have launched their latest venture in an effort to raise money for Cancer Research.

Limerick Local Heroes is a group that was founded in the Munster county following the RTÉ programme ‘Local Heroes – A Town Fights Back’, focused on citizens of Drogheda, Co. Louth, coming together to jumpstart an ailing local economy and create local jobs.

Since then the number of volunteers and projects has continued to grow. Late last month the scheme featured on a special Christmas edition of the RTÉ programme, focused on Limerick and other areas of the country inspired by the original television show. 

It’s the groups latest endeavor that caught our eye though, as they are now attempting to turn garbage into gold, using a guitar recused from a dump.

As per the Limerick Local Heroes website:

A group of Limerick people have taken on a very interesting project: an abandoned guitar has been rescued from a dump, restored and is now being used in an attempt to save many lives by helping cancer research.

The idea is to get big-name musicians to play this Telecaster live, endorse it, be photographed with it and make it famous. The more big names, the more valuable it becomes, until eventually it is auctioned off for cancer research. 

The initiative was given the seal of approval last weekend when Paul Brady got behind the project and became the first big name to both play and be photographed with the guitar. Let’s see if we can use it to rescue people from life-threatening illness.

Who knows where it might end? The bigger the name, the more saleable the guitar becomes, so let’s see how big we can go.

 

Paul Brady has become the first high-profile artist to support the cause, and is pictured with the restored guitar on the Facebook page for the appeal, with many more hoped to follow.

The initiative can be followed and supported on https://www.facebook.com/RescueGuitar/