23/05/2026
🥳It's National Volunteering Week, and we're celebrating volunteers like Sunday!
Sunday volunteers in lots of places in Kilkenny like the Global Dance Club, the Men’s Shed, and festivals and events like the Cairn Community Games and the Kilkenny Arts Festival. However, his favourite volunteering role is ringing the bells at St Canice Cathedral.
“Bell ringing sounds very easy, right? But I tell you, it is not just to ring the bell, but techniques and strategy to do that,” he says, “this took me several months to ring on my own and I am still learning.”
He got involved with bell ringing through Kilkenny Volunteer Centre and he likes that the bell ringing involves working together with other people. Because each bell is rung by a different person, you have to be paying attention and connecting with the other musicians to keep pace. “It’s just like a football team” he says. You’ll often hear him behind bell 3 or bell 5.
His favourite ringing takes place on, you guessed it, Sundays before the start of the service. “Volunteering is not just volunteering, but also for self-development and meeting people,” he says.
National Volunteering Week is supported by our sponsor the Irish League of Credit Unions and our partner Healthy Ireland.
