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Pat Howe was born in June 1950 in Dublin. Due to a difficult birth
Pat was left with club feet. He faced many painful years of treatment
in the Clontarf Orthopaedic Clinic. His mother was determined that
he would walk. He endured six years of operations and months at
a time in hospital, feet broken and reset with the addition of special
knee high boots finally proved successful. 
He walked without assistance but he
was a handicapped child. Then within a year there was another accident.
He was playing with friends when he lost his balance and fell onto
the road. A ten-ton lorry ran over his right foot. A neighbour put
a shovel under his foot and another wrapped it in her new towels
that were a wedding present. He was taken to Temple Street Hospital,
where they considered amputation. Fortunately this did not happen.
He spent the next six years using a walker, which was quite humiliating
for a young chap, then it was back to the old familiar crutches.
Pat found himself suffering from learning
difficulties due to spending a lot of his formative years in hospital.
He went on to work successfully with a number of maintenance and
fitting companies for many years. He then decided to buy a taxi
plate and become his own boss. Pat used his taxi as a means of meeting
people to talk about it and has made all of his contacts to date
by way of driving them somewhere.
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