the following events:

• Track & Field – 100m
• Track & Field – 4x100m Relay
• Badminton Singles
• Table Tennis (Singles)
• Table Tennis (Doubles)
• 10 Pin Bowling (Singles)

 

He recently turned 18 and lives at home in knock with is his 3 siblings. Matthew will be going into leaving cert this September and hopes to do a course in either dentistry or health informatics,- preferably in a college in Dublin. He is an outgoing and self-confident, he does not allow his illness to define him. He has a part time job at the Shrine Office in his local parish, Knock. Matthews hobbies include table tennis which he has won several county and Connaught medals and even two All-Ireland medals at! He also plays a bit of gaelic football with his local club.

 

‘This will be my first time competing in the games and I am really looking forward to this opportunity’

 

‘I am looking forward to competing at the games and I am excited to see the standard of the competition. I also am really looking forward to visiting Finland. A gold medal would be nice also …’