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Officials Clare Hogan Cork Physio Clare Joins Irish team at World Transplant Games | Cork Physio Clare Joins Irish team at World Transplant Games |
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| Written by Colin White | |
| Saturday, 25 July 2009 | |
 A Cork-based physiotherapist will travel to Australia next month (AUGUST) as the official physio to the Irish team at the World Transplant Games.
Between them, the Irish team have 13 new kidneys, five new livers and one new kidney-pancreas – and by just getting to the starting-line, they are already winners.Clare Hogan, a Fermoy native attached to Cork University Hospital who also practices at Fermoy Physiotherapy Clinic, will act as team physio for the second year in succession. Last year, she was with the team at the European Transplant and Dialysis Games in Wurzburg, Germany. She has experience of working with dialysis patients in the hospital’s renal unit. “There is a lot of research which shows that exercise can be of huge benefit to dialysis patients,” said Clare. The squad will travel to Gold Coast on Tuesday, August 18th. “It’s not really about winning, it’s all about taking part. We honour our donors by showing that organ transplantation works. That’s a vital message to promote as the need for a life-saving organ transplant can visit a family with devastating speed, and at any age, even babies and children,” said team captain Mick Dwyer, who ten years ago had a kidney transplant. Team manager Colin White paid tribute to the determination of the athletes taking part. “They have worked very hard to prepare for the Games, and they will help to show the world that you can enjoy a great life after receiving a transplant,” he said. The full Irish team is: Paul Donohoe (Cavan); Michael Dwyer (captain, Dublin); Deirdre Faul (vice-captain, Dublin); Tony Gartland (Wicklow); James Hannon (Longford); John Loftus (Limerick); Philip Martin (Dublin); Tom Metcalfe (Dublin); Linda Meyler (Galway); Catherine Murphy (Cork); James Nolan (Kildare); John Paul O’Neill (Kilkenny); Paul Prendergast (Dublin); Orla Hogan-Ryan (Tipperary); Charlie Ryan (Cork); Leonard Ryan (Dublin); Angela Sherlock (Dublin); Harry Ward (Dublin); and Vienna White (Donegal.) The team will be accompanied by manager Colin White; team doctor Emer Kilbride; physio Clare Hogan; and Mark Murphy, the CEO of the Irish Kidney Association, who is also a member of the World Transplant Games governing body. The team kit is sponsored by Shire Pharmaceuticals. A special website has been built – www.transplantteamireland.com – where supporters can follow the team’s progress and send on messages of support. The site profiles each athlete and will carry daily updates on how the athletes are getting on. For an organ donor card FREETEXT the word ‘DONOR’ to 50050. |
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