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Athlone athlete Mark Rohan has secured Ireland's first ever Paracycling World Championship gold medal.
Rohan, a former under-21 footballer with Westmeath suffered serious injuries in a road accident in 2001. As a result of his injuries Mark is now confined to a wheelchair.
He took up handcycling less than two years ago having previously represented Ireland in wheelchair basketball.
The Westmeath man took the Gold Medal after winning the H1 Handcycling Road Race in Baie-Comeau Canada at the weekend.
Expressing delight at the result Irish Paracycling Manager Denis Toomey said: 'Hearing the Irish National Anthem being played at a World Championship Medal Ceremony was a great experience and one we hopefully will hear more of in the future.'
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
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