Ruth's fundraiser named "Mum of the Year"

Her husband Keith and her daughter, Fate, named Ruth for the title of Female Mum of the Year.

Ruth, who has three surviving children, was named winner of the award for her dedication to raising money and taking care of her daughter.

Navan's Alanna, Co Meath, died suddenly at home on December 13, leaving her family and community broken.

Just eight years old when she died, Alanna was born with spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy, without speech or the use of her arms and legs.

She also had a visual impairment and epilepsy.

Twin during her pregnancy, Alanna was born nine weeks before term. His sister Isabelle died shortly before her birth

Alanna became the youngest competitor of the Dublin marathon last year when her father pushed her into her wheelchair.

Last year, Ruth and Keith helped 70,000 for the Meadows Respite Care Home in Navan, where their daughter had been nurtured.

Ruth continued to raise funds and organized the Forever 8 Memorial Run later this month to remember Alanna

is not it? And they do not really look for prices, "said Ruth.

"I tell you something, you learn more from your children than you can ever teach them. You really do it. "

" You try to teach them, but they teach you and you do not even realize it. "

About 1,000 people are expected for the Alanna Memorial Ceremony.

Fundraising. It's for everyone to come together and remember it, "says Ruth.

"Alanna did so well during her short life, she raised € 80,000 to adapt our house.

" After that, we decided to give back to our small community in Navan and raised 70,000 € more for a wheelchair accessible bus. "

She said it was such a big pity that Alanna would not be around to see it.

The publisher Norah Casey said that Ruth was an incredible woman and a loving mother

"You just felt that the Russell family was very happy. Alanna had a short life but Ruth was badured that it was as beautiful as possible. "

[19659003] Meanwhile, Dublin's Maureen Quinn won the title of" Gamechanger Mum & # 39; In the 1990s, the mum-of-two challenged the eligibility of single people to adopt and paved the way for others to follow.

"I've never wanted to be a mom. I was not eligible, but I thought it was not correct, "she said.

Journalist and adventurer Nancy Ashmawy received the Celebrity Mum Award, awarded by readers of the Woman's magazine Way #

just a very ordinary mother, "I think mammals are mammals, whether you're an Italian mom or an Irish mother."