Brendan Tuohey of Playing for Peace Visits Dallas
at home of Page and Bill Tucker : 10.18.06

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Brendan Tuohey of Playing for Peace was lucky enough to meet Page Tucker and Mike Corboy in Dublin last June at The Ireland Funds Conference. The rest is history.

Page and Mike were so impressed with his project that they wanted to share it with the rest of the Irish Texans. Don Hanratty, Chair of the Texas Regional Advisory Board gave the go ahead to get everyone together at the home of Page and Bill Tucker to hear Brendan and his friend RC Buford, General Manager of the San Antonio Spurs, speak about the project. Page, who always keeps the fun in fundraising, threw a magnificent Coffee and Desert party. By coffee we mean Irish, French, Mexican or whatever took your fancy to pour!

Brendan explained how Playing for Peace started and RC, just back from Belfast, gave us his impressions of the benefit to Protestant and Catholic youths playing basketball which is seen as a neutral sport in Northern Ireland.

Page presented Brendan with a coffee table book on Dallas to commemorate his visit and Barbara Miercort presented Page and Bill with a copy of Irish Houses and Castles on behalf of Kingsley Aikins, President and CEO of The Worldwide Ireland Funds, as a thank you for their hospitality.

Don Hanratty rounded off the evening by thanking everyone for attending and hoping that the Regional Advisory Board would consider adopting “Playing for Peace” as a project to support.