16 Dec 2024 Making Waves at the Connaught Category 1 Swimming Event Sligo Regional Sports Centre played host to a Category 1 Swimming event on Wednesday 13th November featuring 24 athletes. Read More
16 Dec 2024 South Galway Lakers Juvenile Basketball Day Thanks to Mairead Daly, South Lakers Special Olympics Club, for organising a fun-filled juvenile basketball day on Saturday 30th November. 14 athletes took part and had a fantastic time. Read More
16 Dec 2024 35 athletes take part in Motor Activities event On Thursday 5th December the Connaught Regional Motor Activities Training Programme (MATP) took place at Creggs National School. Read More
16 Dec 2024 Spectacular sports and festive fun at Christmas Cracker inter-club event Team South Galway hosted a fantastic fun filled Christmas Cracker inter-club event on Sunday 1st December. Read More
05 Dec 2024 Karen Coventry, Director of Sport, one of Sport for Business AIG's 50 Most Influential Women in Irish Sport 2024! We are thrilled to announce that our very own Karen Coventry, Director of Sport, has been honoured as one of the Sport for Business AIG's 50 Most Influential Women in Irish Sport 2024! Read More
03 Dec 2024 Today is International Day of Persons with Disabilities! Join us in celebrating some of the amazing Eastern Region Athlete Leaders! Read More
28 Nov 2024 Loughrea athletes make a racket at UK regional Badminton Championships Seven badminton athletes from Loughrea won two silver and three bronze medals at the East Midlands Super Regional Badminton Championships at University of Derby Sports Centre, England on 26th and 27th October. Read More
28 Nov 2024 Virtual Golf swings into Oranmore On the 24th Of October 18 Special Olympics athletes gathered at Swing Golf, Oranmore, Galway to experience the unique thrill of virtual golf at a golf simulator event. Read More
28 Nov 2024 Owenabue Gymnastics and Blackwater Blazers Nominated for Inclusion Award We’re thrilled to spotlight two of the finalists in the Cork Sports Partnership Active Community Awards 2024 in the Active Community Inclusion Category: Owenabue Special Olympics Gymnastics and Blackwater Blazers Special Olympics! Read More
28 Nov 2024 Newsletter - Autumn-Winter Bumper Edition Catch up on all the news about our programmes, competitions, volunteer and club activity here! Read More
27 Nov 2024 4 Munster Athletes Win Swimming Medals in Monaco Limerick City Special Olympics Sports Club represented Ireland at the Princess Charlene European Swim Meet in Monaco during the recent October Bank Holiday weekend. A team of 4 athletes, Tara Loftus, Emma Griffin, Andy Coyne, and Brian Lowe competed in the two-day competition against athletes from 28 countries. Read More
27 Nov 2024 Floorball Team Gearing up for World Winter Games Did you know that all of our incredible Team Ireland World Winter Games Floorball team are from Munster? Here they are training hard for the Winter Games in Buttevant GAA Club in Cork back in October! They have a training session each month, but train with their clubs and individually too! They are very devoted to their sport, and such are such good team mates, always supporting each other, and pushing each other to be great at the game! Read More