{"id":81640,"date":"2024-01-24T16:10:42","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T16:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ballineurope.com\/?p=25821"},"modified":"2024-01-24T16:10:42","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T16:10:42","slug":"the-irish-warriors-make-a-mark-on-basketball-in-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/24\/the-irish-warriors-make-a-mark-on-basketball-in-the-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"The Irish Warriors make a mark on basketball in the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A chance to help out back home inspired Kara O\u2019Connell to develop the Irish Warriors, a basketball team that has risen to glory<\/p>\n

The Irish Warriors can\u2019t be missed on the courts in Manila. The big shamrock on the front of their green jerseys stands out to anyone that sees it. While <\/p>\n

Kara O\u2019Connell (n\u00e9e Dumlao) is a remarkable woman with a story that seems straightforward but really isn\u2019t. From the Northwest of Ireland, she\u2019s helping develop a new generation of basketball stars in the Philippines and doing her bit to give back.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s ordinary but it\u2019s really not<\/h4>\n

In life, no matter where in the world you are, we tend to take some extraordinary things for granted. A Filipina ending up in Ireland after travelling around Asia working seems like just another thing. People in the Philippines are used to friends and family trodding that path. Those of us in Europe just figure that\u2019s how it goes.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s really not normal when you pause for even a moment to think about it. Originally from a rural village situated to the north of Manila, Kara O\u2019Connell is now long settled in Co. Sligo in Ireland with a family.<\/p>\n

Those are two wildly different worlds, albeit both used to heavy wind and rain, and moving you life like that is quite extraordinary for an individual.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was no work in the Philippines so I started babysitting around Asia. I was working in Japan one summer and met a lady from Dublin. I got to Ireland in 2000, starting in Killarney, Co. Kerry, but met a boy from Sligo and moved there,\u201d O\u2019Connell said.<\/p>\n

Again, it\u2019s a pretty normal story around anyone emigrating when looked at purely as a statistic. Relationship and economic reasons are amongst the main drivers of movement of people worldwide. Kara O\u2019Connell ticks both of those boxes.<\/p>\n

Stop for a moment and think about the individual. It\u2019s a life they are living. At a young age, O\u2019Connell took a jaunt into the world and somehow ended up in Sligo. It\u2019s a great place, I had the best steak of my life there, but it\u2019s an enormous change in life.<\/p>\n

For all that, what makes the Kara O\u2019Connell story truly extraordinary is something really ordinary. She kept her ties to home and it was from there that the Irish Warriors were born.<\/p>\n