 Liam Horan Tuesday, 03 February 2009
Members and supporters of the Irish Transplant & Dialysis athletics team are in mourning today (TUESDAY) after the sudden death in Cork of one of their most popular colleagues. |
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 Colin White Thursday, 20 November 2008 The 5th European Transplant & Dialysis Games recently finished up in Wurzburg, Germany. I again had the honour of being Ireland Team Manager for the event. In reflecting on the experience, I got to thinking, what’s it all about and how does one measure the success of such endeavours? |
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 Colin White Friday, 19 September 2008 Hi!I hope that all is well with you! On the back of an excellent performance at this year’s UK Transplant Games, Jaydon Brittion, from our Junior team has been nominated as the Carlow Sports Personality on Beat 102-103 radio station and he needs your vote to take the over-all prize. Please use the link below and cast your vote for Jaydon! |
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Exhausted, emotional, but deeply satisfied – the Irish team arrived home yesterday evening (SUNDAY) from their uber medal-winning exploits at the European Transplant & Dialysis Games in Wurzburg, Germany. |
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 Today (SATURDAY) is the final day of events, and all eyes turn to the track and field. Throughout today, we will be updating here with details of how the Irish team are getting on. |
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 An emotional homecoming is guaranteed this evening (SUNDAY) for the Irish team which collected over 40 medals at the European Transplant & Dialysis Games in Wurzburg, Germany, over the past week. |
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He got up before six last Tuesday morning, plugged the tubes into his stomach for 30 minutes of dialysis, whipped them out again, grabbed his sports bag and rushed out the door – and off to the swimming pool where he coolly won four European medals. |
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 Friday evening also saw a 5km road race for supporters and officials - and there was great joy in the Irish camp when Emma McHenry won the ladies race, and Colin White finished third in the men's event.
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Today was an early start as our bowlers started leaving the hotel before 7am. The weather started off damp so the track & field competitors were apprehensive. However, when it came time for the programme to begin it was as if someone turned off the rain and brought out the sun instead. We had very nice weather for the day. |
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 Breaking news from Track & Field and Bowling events at European Transplant & Dialysis Games, in Wurzburg, Germany. It’s a very busy day, with every athlete out there competing, so do stay tuned here. We will be adding updates throughout the day. Please read below for full news updates. |
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 Ireland’s transplant and dialysis athletes today (THURSDAY) brought to 19 their medals haul at the 5th European Transplant & Dialysis Games in Germany – and now they hope to reach a final tally of over 30. |
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 Deirdre Faul is new to biking – but it doesn’t show. Today (THURSDAY) she revealed herself to be a strong cyclist when she took two silver medals at the 5th European Transplant & Dialysis Games here in Wurzburg, Germany. |
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Wednesday, Day3, turned
out to be a long one and what was very pleasing was that at the end of the day,
the team was in excellent spirits. People were tired but it was that
tiredness that comes with knowing that you have really put in a great
effort.
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- Tuesday, 03 February 2009
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Freelance Journalist Liam Horan will be covering this year's European Transplant & Dialysis Games for Irish newspapers, radios, and websites. To obtain reports from Liam, email him at
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Freelance Journalist Emer Gallagher also contributes articles on the Irish team at the games. 
