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Ripples Special Olympics
Birdies
Special Olympics
Both of the above clubs provide sports training, Ripples
since 1997 and Birdies since 2001, for those with learning
disabilities.
Ripples Club has 46 members from the age of 6 to 37 years,
mostly training in swimming, but also in Table Tennis,
Soccer and Tenpin bowling.
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Birdies Club, newly formed in 2001, provides training in
Golf Skills and hopes to extend training so that Special
Olympics athletes can progress onto the golf course with
their own handicap for a full round of golf. The club presently
has 12 members.
Together they have trained eleven athletes going to the
National Games in Dublin 2002, where they competed
against Special
Olympics athletes from the other three provinces, Munster,
Connaught and Leinster.
There will also be 400 athletes
coming from Europe as these games will be Pre Games for
the Special Olympics World Games 2003, when 7000 athletes
from all over the world will be participating.
If you wish to help with Sponsorship and make a donation-:
Please contact the following persons:
Valerie Davison, Ripples SOSC
Tel. 028 38394333
Philip Patterson, Birdies SOSC
Tel. 028 38345588
Thank You
" Let me win, but if I can't win, let me be
brave in the attempt "
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