Team Ireland features 91 athletes, 49 coaches and staff, and 400 supporters
“I like watching pool events and I know all about the rules, so I’ll have a great time. Hopefully I’ll do my best now for Wicklow town and for Ireland,” she said.
“Everyone is supporting me, saying to me ‘do your best’, but the last Games, on the stand, I said if I ever go again I have to get gold. I put myself under so much pressure.”Ms Beacom’s mother Pam, previously a coach with Special Olympics Ireland, will be travelling over to support her daughter next week.
“This is the first time I’m going as a parent on my holidays. I only have to worry about her,” she said. “I love it, the razzmatazz and I love the athletes. They’re brilliant.”, family co-ordinator for Team Ireland, said over 400 Irish spectators are travelling to Abu Dhabi, “one of the largest supporting groups going”.
“Apparently that’s always the way with Ireland, it’s just a sea of green at every venue you go into, it’s great,” she said.
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