TAW Special: The Owen McVeigh Foundation

The Anfield Wrap

Music, Sports, Soccer

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Many Liverpool fans will have heard the name Owen McVeigh, the 11 year-old Liverpool fan who tragically lost his life to Leukaemia in 2015, and even more will be familiar with the flag made in his honour and the t-shirts that have been seen the world over, but some of you may not know about the foundation set up in his memory. In to talk to Andy Heaton about the Owen McVeigh Foundation are his Dad Mark and Adam Kearns who was instrumental in helping the McVeigh family set up the foundation and is a member of the foundation committee. Mark and Adam talk to Andy about the aims of the foundation, how it was set and some of the help that has been done in Owen’s memory. You can support the foundation in any number of ways, their website can be reached at http://owenmcveighfoundation.co.uk or you can purchase the now famous t-shirt at Hat Scarf or a badge on the following link http://hat-scarf-or-a-badge.com/Pre-Order-Owen-Mcveigh-Foundation-T-Shirt The foundation also has Facebook and Twitter profiles at the following addresses - Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/owenmcveighfoundation Twitter - https://twitter.com/mcveigh_owen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:22.0	It's Andy Heaton hosting again today.
0:25.0	And we've got in the studio, Mark McVeigh and Adam Keynes. We were here to talk to us a little bit about the
0:31.4	Old McVeigh Foundation. Nice one for coming in.
0:33.4	Thank you.
0:34.4	Thanks.
0:35.4	So, I mean, I'm sure everyone who's listening knows about the campaign and the foundation
0:41.2	and the origins around it but
0:43.8	just wanted to have a chat with the two lads about where they're up to and you know the
0:48.6	journey they've been on and and basically give everyone a bit more understanding
0:52.3	about it and how they can get involved and support it and obviously the things that the foundation helps to achieve and what they're doing in the community.
0:59.0	So Mark, if I can start with you, I mean obviously, can't push it over the fact that it was it was
1:04.6	started it's in the name of your son. Yeah. Owen can you just talk us through exactly
1:09.5	what how everything happened did it in order?, um, just like any other kid I suppose he was suffering from a normal cold flu symptoms and he took him to doctors.
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