Any national governing body that does not adhere to Sport Ireland‘s new governance programme will have their funding removed, according to Minister of State for Sport, Patrick O’Donovan.

Mary Davis first burst into the public consciousness in 2003 as the Irish woman who spearheaded the Special Olympics moving out of the US for the first time.

Information relating to the GPA’s negotiations with Government on a new funding scheme for players was

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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.

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The Irish Special Olympics team departed for Los Angeles yesterday on a quest for glory at the World Summer Games, which get under way on Saturday.

Ireland’s 2016 Olympic ambitions have received a €2 million cash injection that will allow sports to fund acclimatisation camps, meet competition costs and, in some cases, provide extra equipment for athletes targeting the Games in Brazil.

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.

President Michael D Higgins and racing magnate JP McManus are among more than 50 people photographed for a Limerick exhibition.

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.

Minister of State for Tourism & Sport Michael Ring has today approved grants of €2.4m for 21 national sports bodies.

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.

Independent presidential candidate Mary Davis has said she acted with "total integrity" while on the board of the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI).

AN Irish Examiner survey of the pay packages earned by the heads of leading charities shows most are on salaries ranging from €100,000 to €150,000.

Presidential hopeful Mary Davis has secured enough local authority nominations to contest the election.

IT took a gruelling five and a half hours to achieve in particularly rough seas, but five Cork gardaí were riding on the crest of a wave after setting a world record and, in the process, raising a substantial amount of money for a worthy cause.

A major fundraising drive by Special Olympics Ireland is underway across the country.

Some of Ireland's biggest sporting names today pleaded with the Government to spare sports funding in what is widely expected to be a difficult Budget for the country.

HORSE RACING IRELAND (HRI) and Special Olympics Ireland have had their funding for core activities reduced by a combined total of €350,000 in the latest round of grants to the country’s national governing bodies (NGBs) for the Irish Sports Council.

SPECIAL OLYMPICS have been hit hardest with e343,919 cut from their 2009 funding but with total funding amounting to e11.47m, budgetary cuts fell well short of the feared 8% when Government grants to sports’ governing bodies were announced by the Irish Sports Council (ISC) yesterday.

A NEWLY-ESTABLISHED dispute resolution service for Irish sport believes controversial cases don’t have to end in the courts, costing prohibitive sums of money.

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.

THE first health promotion package developed especially for people with intellectual disabilities is making a real difference to their lives.

President Mary McAleese is hosting a reception at Áras an Uachtarain today for athletes and coaches involved in the Special Olympics.

THE possibility of Fianna Fáil merging with the SDLP will be examined by a new committee, the Taoiseach is expected to announce today.

LEITRIM COUNTY COUNCIL and Leitrim County Development Board have launched a campaign to bring business to the county and to encourage more people to relocate to work and live there.

SPECIAL Olympics Ireland hopes to kickstart its Support an Athlete campaign by raising €5 million.

Special Olympics Ireland hopes to kickstart its Support An Athlete campaign today by raising €5m.

JUST five out of 14 institutes of technology (IoTs) are fully accessible to students with disabilities, a survey has found.

Special Olympics Ireland is seeking a major increase in state funding in this December's budget.

AISLING Beacom has had a busy week already. She’s a Special Olympics athlete and swimmer, and a regular medal-winner.

MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES head scout, Tony Barone Jr will be among the featured speakers at the 2006 Championship Basketball Coaching Clinic in Kilkenny on August 12 and 13 as part of the Irish Basketball Academy.

FORMER Labour Party strategist Fergus Finlay yesterday paid glowing tribute to senior clinical psychologist Dr Mark Harrold who alleges being bullied out of his job at St Michael’s House.

JOHNSON and Johnson was named overall winners at the Chambers of Commerce of Ireland’s (CCI) annual president’s awards for corporate social responsibility last night.

CRUCIAL business expertise and acumen is to be made available free of charge to the voluntary sector through the Boardmatch initiative launched yesterday by the Secretary General at the Department of An Taoiseach, Dermot McCarthy.

A €16m fund-raising drive will be launched today to train 16,000 disabled athletes for the next Special Olympics.

IRELAND’s Euro Indoor athletes weren’t the medal heroes of the weekend. The Special Olympics team returned yesterday from the Winter Games in Nagano, Japan with a 12 medal haul in tow.

EIGHT athletes jet off from Ireland to Japan today with high hopes of success at the Special Olympics World Winter Games.