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eircom celebrates 22 years of support for Special Olympics Ireland

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  • eircom celebrates 22 years support for Special Olympics Ireland.
  • eircom are proprietary sponsor of the 'Support an Athlete' Campaign, the ‘Volunteer Programme’ and the 'Law Enforcement Torch Run'
  • eircom employees were at the heart of the 'Support An Athlete' Fundraising campaign which raised over €5M. The money is also going to prepare and train athletes for the World Games 2007 in China.
  • eircom employees are also travelling to work as part of the volunteer team travelling to China for the World Games in October.
  • eircom offer an Athlete Work Placement to Special Olympics athletes, we are looking forward to having our new athletes in place in September
  • eircom supply technical services and equipment such as broadband, telephone systems and hardware and a wide area network structure so that all regional offices are networked linked. eircom net host the Special Olympics site.
  • Special Olympics Ireland Provide sports training and athletic competition for children and adults with a learning disability.
    • There are 34,000 people with a learning disability in Ireland;
    • 11,000 people take part in Special Olympics;
    • 18,000 volunteers and 2500 family members are registered with the organisation;
    • Over 400 clubs around the country.

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For further information on Special Olympics visit www.specialolympics.ie.

World Games China
2-11th October

Team Ireland

Marie Fitzgerald, Mickey Joe Harte and Cathal Magee

Photographs from the Team Ireland Launch

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Gallery

pictures of athletes

View Photographs from the 2007 World Games

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Athletes List

athletes directory

A list of all of our competing athletes

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