UCC brings together 500 transition year students for third annual Wheelchair Basketball4All event

"Sport is a great leveller. I think people can get other people playing sport, whatever that sport is.”

BASKETBALL4ALL: (front middle) Paul Ryan, IWA-Sport Development Officer with (left rear) Conor Philpott, Lecturer and (right rear) Diarmuid Lester, lecturer with B.Ed. Physical Education, Sports Studies and Arts students at the Wheelchair Basketball4All event for transition year students at Mardyke Arena, UCC on Thursday 13th March 2025. The event is in collaboration with the B.Ed. Physical Education, Sports Studies and Arts programme in University College Cork and Irish Wheelchair Association Sport, UCC Sport and the Mardyke Arena. Pic: Larry Cummins

It might be a grey day in March at the end of the college semester, but that hasn’t stopped the Mardyke Arena from turning into a place of colour and fun as students host the third annual Wheelchair Basketball4All event.

The mini-festival is still in its infancy, but that hasn’t stopped 32 schools from Cork, Waterford, Limerick, Galway, and Kilkenny from descending on the famous venue.