A Dublin mum who has organised a fundraiser to help women with breast cancer has opened up about the moment she found out MMA fighter Conor McGregor made a generous donation of €10,000.
Gemma Devoy started the fundraiser, which can be accessed here, to help women who are battling breast cancer this week.
The mother-of-one has recently been diagnosed with breast cancer herself and wants to do all she can to help women in the same situation as her.
When Gemma went to buy her wig last week and she realised it cost €1,500 and recognised how difficult a financial situation some women fighting cancer are facing.
Gemma told Dublin Live: "I just have a great family around me. They wanted the best for me, so everyone rallied around and put money together, but it was the price that got me.
"I just thought, Jesus Christ, anybody on their own facing this with young kids if they couldn't afford a wig or weren't entitled to a grant. I just couldn't believe it."
She started the GoFundMe earlier this week and has already raised over €15,000 for the Marie Keating Foundation, a charity that supports people battling cancer.
Conor McGregor made a generous donation of ten grand to Gemma's fundraiser on Tuesday night, which the Dublin mum called "overwhelming".
She said: "I was after being in my friend's that had donated, to do my microblading eyebrows for free.
"I was on the way home and I got a phone call and I was actually physically crying the whole way home. I was like this is unbelievable, this is crazy."
Alongside the online fundraiser, Gemma is also hosting a benefit on September 17th in the Leo Fitzgerald Complex to raise funds for the Marie Keating Foundation.
At the benefit there will be a raffle, slush puppies and popcorn, as well as entertainment for adults and children.
Gemma will be shaving her head and others will also be shaving or dying there hair and waxing to raise money.
She said: "I'm going to lose my hair anyway so the idea was, listen we're going to make as much money as we can for other people out there who haven't got an army of people behind them.
"It's just a fundraiser where every single penny will be donated to the Marie Keating foundation. We're trying to raise as much as we can."
Helping others has always been in Gemma's nature.
"I'm a person that gets involved in everything. My brother died by suicide so I work for Darkness Into Light, I work with Chris Andrews on that.
"I do the homeless sleepouts, anything that helps with awareness of anything that can help other people."
Being able to assist others is helping Gemma face her own cancer battle.
She said: "It's always been in me to be a helper of other people so this is no different.
"Helping others helps me."
Gemma is appealing to anyone who can to donate to the fundraiser to help those fighting cancer.
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