Foot : un international irlandais aide de jeunes sportifs atteints de trisomie 21 à trouver un adversaire. Irish international footballer helps young players find a team to play against.
James McClean a répondu à l’appel des Oxford Bulls, qui cherchaient une équipe pour jouer avec eux.
James McClean answered a call from the Oxford Bulls, who sought a team to play with them.
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Ils s’entraînaient dur mais ils leur manquaient une chose : des adversaires. Les Oxford Bulls, une équipe de jeunes footballeurs irlandais atteints de trisomie 21, ont ainsi lancé un appel via le compte Twitter d’un site de sport, a repéré The Huffington Post, jeudi 30 mars. Après la publication d’un article de SportsJoe(en anglais), l’international irlandais James McClean, originaire de la ville de Derry, tout comme les jeunes sportifs, a répondu lui-même à leur sollicitation. Le coach des Oxfords Bulls, Kevin Morrisson, raconte sur Facebook, que grâce à ce soutien, l’équipe a pu jouer son premier match, mercredi.
The train hard but are missing one thing: an opposition. The Oxford Bulls, a young Irish (Downs) football team, launched an appeal via a Twitter sports website account and reported by The Huffington Post, on Thursday 30 March. After the publication of an article by SportsJoe, the Derry Irish International James McClean, and other sports people, answered the call himself. Kevin Morrison, the Oxford Bulls coach, posted on Facebook, that thanks to James’s involvement, the team will play their first match on Wednesday.
“Je veux adresser un immense merci à James McClean et ses camarades pour être venus voir nos amis et leur donner un si grand moment ! (…) James McClean a géré tout ça avec tellement de patience et de grâce. Alors, merci James et les autres, pour ce jour mémorable !” écrit le coach sur Facebook.
“I would like to send a big thank you to James McClean and his friends for coming to us and making this a great occasion! (…) James McClean gave us his undivided attention and showed tremendous patience and grace. So thank you to James and the others for this unforgettable day!” the coach wrote on FB.
About bill
Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer.
The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013.
Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI.
Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug
2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website.
But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien.
The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50.
Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea.
Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
