OBE for Christian paralympian

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Date posted:  1 Feb 2022
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OBE for Christian paralympian

Colossians 3:23-24 is the text accompanying this picture of Northern Ireland Paralympian Christian Bethany Firth on her Twitter feed.

Bethany, who received an MBE in 2017, has now been given an OBE also for services to swimming. A six-time Paralympic gold medallist from Seaforde, County Down, she competes in the S14 classification for athletes with intellectual impairment – in her case, a learning difficulty that causes short-term memory loss.

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