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‘This game is for everyone’ says Ikem by Páraic McMahon paraic@clareecho.ie
CLARE footballer Ikem Ugwueuru has said skin colour should not be used to hold people back from playing sports. Ahead of his side’s scheduled appearance in the Munster final against Kerry, Ikem says that racial abuse hurled at Wexford’s Lee Chin at a charity game recently between the Model County and Tipperary was “upsetting” and “disappointing”. “I’ve known most of my team-mates for most of my life so if anything was to happen to me, even if it wasn’t a racial comment, they’d always have my back. “Obviously what happened to Lee was
disappointing. And it was upsetting, because no one playing the game should ever have to go through that,” the 23 year old said. He led a Black Lives Matters protest in Ennis during the lockdown and Ikem himself has experienced racial abuse. “I’m not going to say it happens all the time, it’s just a small few instances. I kind of take it as motivation in a way, like, ‘I’m going to show you that everyone is allowed to play this game, that you should not discriminate against me on the colour of my skin or where I’m from or whatever. The game is for everyone.” FULL STORY pg 2
l Martin Sheppard and Peter Duggan at the launch of the Odd Socks Cycle in Shannon
Photo by Joe Buckley