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Kilmarnock hero tackling jungles and deserts to help daughter

Kilmarnock hero tackling jungles and deserts to help daughter

Mark 'Mavis' Reilly spoke to Stephen McGowan for The Herald on Saturday about his latest fundraiser for Rett Syndrome.

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Mark Reilly, the baking heat of the Sahara and the vegetation of the Amazon rainforest became an extreme coping mechanism. The best way he could think of to help both his sick daughter and himself.

A Scottish Cup winner with Kilmarnock, his youngest child Dionne, 17, lives with the little known and incurable condition, Rett Syndrome.

The former midfielder…

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