Special Olympics Ireland are to have a National Collection Day on Friday, April 22.

Well known GAA stars have joined forces with Special Olympics Ireland to get ‘freezin’ for a reason’ this December and take the Polar Plunge for charity.

Colin Farrell is a long-time supporter of Special Olympics Ireland, and

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“It is an incredible thing what Special Olympics does and it is an amazing opportunity for the athletes involved to be recognised for striving to realise the fullest of their potential.”

Athletes come to the Special Olympics Ireland to compete and have fun. And 100 will win places on Team Ireland for the world games in Los Angeles next year.

Thousands will line the streets of Limerick this evening to greet torch bearers drawn from An Garda Síochána and the PSNI to herald the opening of the Special Olympics Ireland Games.

Munster and international rugby legend Keith Wood accepts his province are “stark underdogs” in this weekend’s Heineken Cup showdown but insists every team can be beaten.

Special Olympics Ireland last night saluted a multinational firm and its workers in Cork and Limerick for their support over the past 10 years and for the upcoming national games to be held in Limerick.

Business, sporting and media figures yesterday joined forces in a rallying call for Special Olympics Ireland — a registered charity — which has to raise €1.9m in the coming months to fund its national games.

Dermot Weld celebrated his 65th birthday in style in Galway yesterday by hammering the bookies early on.

It's the feelgood story that has everything - tears of joy, sporting triumph, Gangnam Style, a South Korean GAA team and random cake.

A COMPANY spearheaded by the failed presidential candidate Mary Davis went into the red last year due to the costs of holding the 2010 Special Olympics Ireland Games.

A CELEBRATION cascaded through the hard man territory of Thomond Park last night as more than 15,000 people gathered for the opening of Special Olympics Ireland.

AS a great sports venue, Thomond Park has often been described as a cauldron. This evening it will live up to the analogy.

DESPITE the recession, a massive recruitment drive is steadily making its way to the 3,500 mark in Limerick.

THE “face” of the Special Olympics national fundraising drive has been named Cork person of the month for April.

IN response to your feature article headlined ‘Special Needs Simply Not Met’ (June 23), your reporter referred to the 2003 World Summer Games and inferred that people with intellectual disabilities have not benefited from the legacy of the event.

Special Olympics supremo Mary Davis is to head a new national citizenship task force to urge people to get involved in voluntary work in their communities.

PEOPLE who are struggling to exercise regularly were yesterday urged to think again to help Special Olympic athletes.

MasterCard Europe has named Bank of Ireland as one of three winners of the European co-brand partner of the year award for its Special Olympics Advantage MasterCard credit card.