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A Boy From The North West: The Jack Kerrigan Story - Documentary on Newstalk

This week on Documentary on Newstalk - to mark the 60th anniversary of the Irish Wheelchair Asso...

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08.01 13 Dec 2020


A Boy From The North West: The Jack Kerrigan Story - Documentary on Newstalk



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08.01 13 Dec 2020


This week on Documentary on Newstalk - to mark the 60th anniversary of the Irish Wheelchair Association Newstalk is broadcasting "A Boy From The North West". 

Producer Susan Dennehy and writer Joanna Marsden team up to tell the story of Donegal-man Jack Kerrigan. Paralysed in a diving accident in 1949, he was one of the first wheelchair users to participate in Irish society and one of the members of Paralympics Ireland's first team in 1960. It is a poignant account of what it was like to be a wheelchair user in Ireland in the 50s & 60s.

Jack’s memoirs are read by Mikel Murfi and original music is by Andrew Synott. The programme was made with the support of the BAI, Sound and Vision Grant.


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A Boy From The Northwest BAI Sound And Vision Scheme Documentary IWA Jack Kerrigan Paralympics Ireland Susan Dennehy The Irish Wheelchair Association

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