A service game with a difference: How an Irish tennis coach is helping refugee kids

For most people, this need to help, to do something, anything, is just that: A need. It is unexplainable. You may as well ask why one foot follows another. Or why the sun shines. It just does. He just did.

Children playing tennis at the Ritsona refugee camp in Greece.

Wes O'Brien can’t wrap a pretty bow around it.

He can offer no neatly-packaged response when asked why a tennis coach from Killaloe felt the urge to direct his time and energy towards the refugee crisis that has landed on European shores via the Mediterranean.