Liam Horan Friday, 09 July 2010 Irish running legend Eamonn Coghlan is to deliver a motivational talk to an “inspirational” bunch of Irish athletes – all of whom have had major organ transplants or are currently on dialysis. |
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 Liam Horan Friday, 09 July 2010 Monica is one of the great competitors on the Irish team - and, after missing the Games over the past two years, we are delighted to welcome her back into the Irish singlet this year. |
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 Liam Horan Thursday, 08 July 2010 Needless to mention, Bridie's main event at the games will Petanque, and thankfully she has an excellent pitch to practice on. "Apart from the good weather and the excellent views of Benbulben and Knocknarea mountains, we have at the Mitchell-Curley park, the pitch is undoubtedly the best in Ireland," says Bridie, speaking of her local venue in Sligo. |
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 Team captain Mick Dwyer is back for more action in 2010 - and he will be the one rallying the troops at every turn. |
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 Darren is one of the great competitors of the Irish team, as you will see elsewhere on this site - he was sensational in Wurzburg, Germany, two years ago. |
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 Since last year's heroic exploits in the World Transplant Games, Gold Coast, Australia, Deirdre has certainly kept herself busy. |
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 Garry lives in Greystones and plays golf in Wicklow Town. He plays darts and bowling also. He is back at the games this year after undergoing a hip replacement in 2009. |
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This year, the Irish team welcomes a huge number of new athletes to the team. Keep an eye on this story – we will add to this list as we build the profiles of all the athletes.We have received about 12 profiles from new athletes so far, and will be adding those here - if you haven't sent in your profile yet, see note below.Some of the athletes mentioned below have competed previously for Ireland, but before the establishment of this site in 2007 - hence, their inclusion in this 'new' list. Str... |
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A team of ten Irish golfers, all of whom revived their sporting careers after major organ transplantations, this weekend retained a major golf title in Scotland. |
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 A team of ten golfers, all of whom have revived their sporting careers after major organ transplantations, will next month travel to Scotland to defend their Five-Nations Transplant golf title. |
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.jpg) The appeal has gone out - we want to gather as many pictures as possible of celebrities with Donor Cards.Lots of well-known people have supported the cause over the years, so any pictures you can send on would certainly enhance this site - and help to promote organ donor awareness. Every time we get a new picture, we will bring this story to the top of the page. The new pictures will be added on at the very bottom here every time...so let's all get cracking!For Organ Donor Cards freetext the wor... |
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 The organisers of this year’s historic European Transplant & Dialysis Games in Dublin have just launched the new Games website. |
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NAME: Edward KehoeLIVES: Castlebridge, Co. WexfordTRANSPLANT HISTORY: Edward received a Kidney transplant in 1983. Prior to that, he was on dialysis for two months, and he has never looked back since getting the transplant.FIRST GAMES ON IRISH TEAM: Amsterdam 1984, hen he won silver in the 100m and 400m races. He has competed for Ireland on a total of five occasions - Signapore 1989, Austria 1991, Budapest 1996, and Nancy, France, in 2003 are the other four times. He was won medals on a number o... |
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