Young Athlete Festival - Come & Try Event

Ireland Winter Games 2024

The Young Athletes programme is a play and sports activity programme for children from 4 to 12 years with an intellectual disability. It introduces children to a wide variety of play activities in a familiar, supportive and fun environment where everyone has the opportunity to succeed. 

Young Athletes provides a flexible framework and versatile programme which can be successfully offered in a variety of settings from individual family homes, to classrooms, to community club settings. The programme is designed as an introduction to the fundamental movement skills.