What a Difference a Day Makes: Zak Moradi on how joining the GAA changed his life
Former Leitrim hurler tells Helen O’Callaghan how, newly-arrived from a refugee camp in Iraq he joined a local Co Leitrim GAA club, and about the transformative effect this had on his life.
Zak Moradi who was born in Iraq has played hurling for Leitrim and now plays in Thomas Davis GAA club Dublin. Picture: Moya Nolan
My family is from Kurdistan, but I was born in a refugee camp in Iraq. My parents, all my brothers and sisters, 13 of us, came to Ireland on July 1, 2002. I was 11.
It was lashing rain when we arrived. They told us it was summer and we thought it was winter. We felt cold: When we left, it was 45° in Iraq. But I thought Ireland was just beautiful and green, very different, two different worlds.
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