User:Shane mac cabe

Dr James McCabe is an accomplished sportsman and economist. A native of County Cavan, Ireland, he was, in 1949, the youngest player ever to play in the greatest annual sporting event in that country, the All-Ireland football final, where he lined out as a defender. In 1952, he achieved the ultimate in Gaelic sports by playing on the Cavan team that beat Meath, and was awarded a coveted All-Ireland medal. He became a teacher not long thereafter, and, after a career starting in the classroom in the west of Ireland, through to the International Institute for Educational Planning, he was eventually appointed Senior Economist with the World Bank, Washington DC, where he worked for almost two decades, specialising in Education-related projects, mostly in East Africa, but also in Nepal, Afghanistan and other countries. Now retired, he is an accomplished forester with his wife, Kay, in Sligo, Northwest Ireland, where the couple manage a significant plantation.