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While Michael Cusacks were busy winning the Junior A Championship last week, 9,000 kilometres away, one of the club’s stalwarts was making massive strides for Gaelic games in Africa. New Quay man, John Conroy, has been working with some of the poorest communities in Uganda for more than 10 years. In recent times, John’s work has seen him introduce Gaelic Football into a school in Jinja in eastern Uganda, focussing to begin with on a class of 30 deaf children. On Monday, October 28, John joined the Irish Ambassador to Uganda, Kevin Colgan, in Kampala where the words for ‘hurling’ and ‘Gaelic Football’ were officially made part of Ugandan sign language. John first visited Uganda in 2009 as a volunteer at the Rays of Hope Hospice founded Frank and Patricia Hassett from Ennis. In recent times however, he has focussed his attention on the Walukuba West Primary School where earlier this year he founded Nile Óg Cusacks GAA Club. “Football …
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