The 2016 Rio Paralympics get underway in just over a week and Letterkenny man Johnny Loughrey of JT Physio is one of the Chartered Physiotherapists who has been working with the Team Ireland squad.
Johnny joined Team Ireland at the pre-training camp in Portugal last week, before flying with the team to the holding camp in Uberlandia, Brazil.
Photo caption: Johnny Loughrey with the Irish Para-cycling team pre-Paralympics training camp in Portugal
Team Ireland will travel to the athlete village in Rio this Friday ahead of the games, which start on Wednesday, September 7.
Donegal will be well represented at the Paralympics with Buncrana native Rena McCarron Rooney taking part in the women’s table tennis category, while Katie-George Dunleavy, whose family is from Mountcharles, will be competing in the tandem cycle.
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