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Bill McIntyre is a coach of the women’s basketball team that competed at the 2003 Special Olympics World Summer Games for Special Olympics Ireland. [Photo by Jason Clarke, IRELAND OUT] |
McIntryre's profile by John Sheehy, reprinted from The Games Gazette, the official newspaper of the 2003 Special Olympics World Summer Games.
Special Olympics is all about abilities, and this applies to coaches as well as to athletes. Bill McIntyre from Strabane, Co Tyrone, along with Brian Bourke from Mayo, is a coach of the women’s basketball team competing at the 2003 Special Olympics World Summer Games for Special Olympics Ireland.
McIntyre has been involved in basketball at various levels for forty years, having begun playing while still in school. Unfortunately, he had an accident eighteen years ago when he fell off scaffolding at work. This resulted in him needing a wheelchair, but it did not deter him from pursuing his interest in basketball. He became a coach, and for him this meant learning everything all over again. Before the accident, he took everything for granted, but is now able to see things from a ‘special’ point of view.
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