About Special Olympics Leinster

Special Olympics Leinster provides year round sports training and competition to over 1,500 athletes with an intellectual disability.

The Region is divided into 2 areas - North and South Leinster covering counties Louth, Meath, Offaly, Laois, Kilkenny, Carlow, Wexford, Mid and South Kildare, South Wicklow and East Westmeath. 

Read more about us here

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World Games

The Special Olympics World Summer Games will take place in March. Leinster will be represented by 9 athletes in 8 sports over the Games. Wishing team Ireland the best of luck from Special Olympics Leinster.

               

Damien Breslin	South Offaly SOC	Swimming
Lucy Dollard	Kilkenny SOC	Athletics
John Doyle	SOC Gorey Area	Badminton
Mark Sadler	South Offaly SOC	Bowling
Padraig Reilly	KARE	Bowling
Conor Byrne	KARE	Equestrian
Lisa Redmond	Wexford SOC	Gymnastics Artistic
Oisin Feery	Ballinamere School	Kayaking
Francie Power	Navan Arch Club	Table Tennis

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GALA HALL OF FAME AWARD

The Gala Hall of Fame Award was presented to Kilkenny Special Olympics Club on February 14th.
This award is awarded to clubs who embody the spirit, enthusiasm, drive and attitude of Special Olympics Ireland.

On the night athletes, parents and volunteers were delighted to welcome along Christopher Curtin from Gala and John De Loughry from the local Gala store with a special Kilkenny welcome going to their great supporter Kilkenny Hurling Manager Brian Cody.



Kilkenny Special Olympics Club was founded in February 2010 with 29 athletes and today has 50 athletes competing in six sports:
Athletics, Bocce, Gymnastics, Kayaking, Pitch & Putt and Swimming.

The club in the past six months have expanded to include the Young Athletes Programme and on the night young children aged from 4 - 7 years showed their prowess and development through their participation in the fundamental movement skills of throwing, catching, jumping and balancing.

Athlete Lucy Dollard will be representing the club in March at the World Summer Games in Abu Dhabi.

BEST OF LUCK LUCY !!!!

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INTRODUCTION TO ATHLETE LEADERSHIP WORKSHOP

February 16th saw eighteen athletes along with 14 mentors attend an Introduction to Athlete Leadership workshop in Special Olympics Ireland HQ. Drogheda Toastmasters delivered a workshop on Public Speaking whilst Audrey Hutton, athlete leader and Regional Committee member presented on getting involved in Athlete Leadership. She spoke about her own experiences and the benefits she has attained through Athlete Leadership.

The day was a fantastic success and we hope to see many of those athletes that attended become Athlete Leaders themselves in the near future.