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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 …

Junior A football semi-final Michael Cusacks 1-9 Éire Óg 0-8 Renowned Michael Cusack’s defender Kevin Fawle is not recognised as a goalscorer but should ultimate success come the way of the men from the Burren and Belharbour they will look back at Fawle’s 50th minute goal as one of the decisive moments of the year. Éire Óg will have left Corofin with deep regrets posting perhaps their least effective showing of the season that was well below their quarter-final showing against Cooraclare as Michael Cusack’s were very fortunate to get extra time before dispatching the challenge of St Breckan’s second string. Éire Óg opened the scoring with goalkeeper Cian Howard kicking over their first score from a free and he added a second free after eight minutes. Domhnall McMahon operating at full forward with others pulled out kicked over Michael Cusack’s first score just before Jack McGann and McMahon once more were on the scoresheet after 13 minutes to take the …