WATCH: Final moments of 75-year-old Nenagh grandmother's skydive for Gaza

A Tipperary grandmother beat a fear of heights to skydive 13,000ft on Sunday and immediately declare on landing, “we did it for Gaza”. 

Mary McDonnell (75), a retired nurse from Nenagh took the mammoth plunge today with her son Mike from Skydive Ireland’s airstrip at Clonbullogue in Offaly to raise funds and awareness for victims of the war in Gaza.

She not alone beat the fear of heights but sleepless nights and loss of appetite over recent days before taking on the flight.

And then a two and a half-hour delay due to earlier technical difficulties pushed back flights across the afternoon before they mother and son finally boarded just short of 3pm.

Twenty minutes or so later, following a climb to 13,000 feet, Mary, whose husband Mike Snr who passed away five years ago, and her son were out of the aircraft to a freezing but blue-sky freefall and parachute release that definitely brought different reactions.

“I didn’t like it, not one second of it. I didn’t expect to like it. I’d go as far as to say terrifying, but I did it and I did it for the men, women and children who are losing their lives in the horror that goes on every minute in Gaza,” said Mary as she emerged from the hanger.