‘Let’s keep the flame burning’

KEEPING the Special Olympic flame burning in people’s hearts after the Games will be the biggest challenge of all, the chief coordinator of the European Year of People with Disabilities (EYPD) in Ireland declared yesterday.

Angela Keirns, chairperson of the National Co-ordination Committee, was at the Special Olympics in the RDS, Dublin, yesterday for the unfolding of the EYPD flag that boldly challenges everybody to “Make the Difference.”

There are 38 million people in Europe with a disability - almost 10% of the population. Nearly 400,000 people with a disability reside in Ireland.