Online Highland shinty auction helps NHS during coronavirus crisis
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The shinty community has rallied behind the heroic efforts of frontline NHS staff through a series of online auctions.
Customised camans and rare shinty publications were offered to the highest bidders, raising the sum of £770 for the intensive care unit fund at Raigmore Hospital recently.
Inverness caman-maker Roddie MacLennan, of Aird Artisans, produced four separate sticks for auction, and books provided by shinty historian Hugh Dan MacLennan also attracted a number of significant bids from fans of the sport.
The fundraiser was devised to demonstrate the shinty community’s appreciation for the great efforts of NHS staff in the face of the current pandemic.
Roddie MacLennan, a former shinty player with Inverness, Glenurquhart and Beauly, said: “I am completely overwhelmed by the generosity of the individuals who bid the highest amounts to ensure that they purchased the camans and books.
“Not only that, I greatly appreciate the efforts made by others who moved the sums upwards and onwards from time to time.
“It is a recognition of what the shinty community thinks of the efforts of NHS staff far and wide, not just in Inverness.”
Among the top bidders was Iain MacKintosh of Ardtower Caravan Park in Culloden Road, Inverness.
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