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Amongst those off to London this weekend to attend the London Paralympics 2012 is Newry and Mourne Councillor Pat Mc Ginn.
The Sinn Fein elected representative said that he was looking forward to attending the historic Games and in particular supporting all those athletes from Ireland.
"Young Laurence Mc Givern from Rostrevor is representing Ireland in the 100m backstroke and it will be a special moment for him, his family and many of us over to support him when he takes to the pool on Friday morning" said Pat who continued"I also have tickets for the Wheelchair Basketball, a game which has it all, skill,speed and indeed the odd bit of aggression! ".
Concluding Pat who will be attending the Games with family and friends said that he looked forward to support more brilliant athletes from Ireland in the Paralympics and that he hoped the games would show to all irrespective of their circumstances that they could get involved in sport.
Even in 2007, as you can see from the picture, Laurence McGivern was looking forward to the London Olympics when local business people were behind the Oriel 2012 initiative which could have seen our area being used as a training centre for this years athletes but sadly it didn't come to pass.
