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A Supermac's worker in Athlone bought a brilliant present for a long-term customer with autism
EOIN MULLIGAN HAS been working in a Supermac’s in Athlone for the past two years.
Every day, Francis – who lives above the Supermac’s – drops down for a chat about their shared passion in life: Everton Football Club. Francis has Asperger’s syndrome, and has been a die hard Everton fan as long as Eoin has known him.
So yesterday, with the new season just beginning, Eoin decided to get him a present – his very own brand new Everton shirt
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He posted his and Francis’s story to Facebook yesterday, and it’s been shared thousands of times – even by the official Everton page.
Eoin tells DailyEdge.ie the inspiration for the small, but lovely, gesture:
He wrote on Facebook that Francis dropping in is a highlight of his day:
He included a video in his post of Francis opening up the present in Supermac’s yesterday – and it had his favourite player Wayne Rooney on the back
If you can’t see the video, click here.
Everton sharing Eoin and Francis’s moment late last night opened it up to a whole new audience outside Ireland – and an additional 5000 likes on Facebook would only spread that message today. The club wrote:
Eoin tells DailyEdge that the post going viral has come as a massive shock – he was only putting it up for local people who know Francis and might be interested in him having a new Everton jersey:
Everton won yesterday too – with Rooney scoring the winner – so it was a good day for the pair of them:
Once his post started gaining massive traction, Eoin put in a donation link for an autism community in Ireland, and he had some lovely words for Francis:
The pair of them talking football all day – one in a Supermac’s shirt and the other in his brand new Everton one <3
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