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Wed 08 Aug 2009Kennedy Shriver a visionary, says President
PRESIDENT MARY McAleese and Taoiseach Brian Cowen yesterday led tributes to the “visionary” and “inspirational” founder of the Special Olympics movement, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who died yesterday.
The games for people with intellectual disabilities have grown to include 190 countries since they began in 1968. They were were hosted by Ireland in 2003.
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