'I made a promise to do it' - Michael Connolly (87) on his 100km walk for cancer research after daughter's diagnosis. As a man in his late eighties, Michael admits that he is more like the tortoise than the hare, but that won't stop him on his quest to walk 100km to raise money for cancer research. The big-hearted great-grandfather and former mechanic (87) has had a brush with the disease himself, but when his daughter Breege was diagnosed recently he decided he had to do something while he was still fit to raise funds. "I made a promise to myself to do it, and I always keep my promises."