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Clarke to tee off for fund
By COLM SMITH

TOP golfer Darren Clarke is to organise a pro-am tournament to raise cash for the victims for the Omagh bombing.
The event will include most of his victorious Ryder Cup team mates and the Dungannon man hopes to raise around £150.000 on the day for the Omagh Fund. The event will be held hels at Portmarnock hotel and Golf Links on Monday September 14.
Clarke is ranked number 24 in the world and said at the K Club yesterday: "I am now fortunate to be in the position to ask favours of my fellow pros and so far everyone we have talked to has responded positively.
"Whatever we do cannot bring back the people who have been killed but we hope this will help the relatives and the mimed
The bombing was a senseless murderous act. We professionals are fortunate in what we do and it is only right that we help those less fortunate.
"I am a Tyrone county man and Omagh is not very far from my home town of Dungannon. I played a lot of golf there in my amateur days and although I did not know anyone killed or injured I have lost some friends in the Troubles."
Meanwhile, the Mayor of Limerick. Joe Harrington has also initiated a fund for the Omagh victims.
This will also help, to set up an exchange programme between children from the north and south.
The Mayor, who travelled, to Omagh for the funeral of Adrian Gallagher said: " None of us will ever get terrible tragedy".