David Healy signs up to karate
16 June 2008by Carnalea Wado Kai
The listing was posted by Mizukara
Last Friday in the Flagship Centre, Bangor, footballing superstar David Healy added his support to four of Northern Ireland's top junior karate stars. Neil & Glen Bailie, Levi Kane and Sarah Brashaw are currently training for the WUKO World Junior Karate Championships and were delighted when David Healey added his support to their cause. The event, to be held in Venice this October, is expected to attract some two thousand competitors. Karate coach David Brashaw added 'As always, funding to take our karate stars to international events outside of Northern Ireland is always an issue. Subsequently we were over the moon when David agreed to sign a Northern Ireland football shirt for us to ballot locally in an effort to raise funding. With this help we hope for the first time ever to pay for our team to attend a world championship. This is something that many other countries do for their karate competitors but unfortunately just doesn't seem likely to happen in Northern Ireland. Over the past few years Northern Ireland has had its most successful period of world karate success, claiming no less than five golds, two silver and five bronze. We are certainly now given a lot of hard earned respect at these events.