Cerebral Palsy Sport Ireland

Over the last 2 months Cerebral Palsy Sports Ireland and the Enable Ireland Centres have being running their Inter centre Boccia league. This years league is following on from the success achieved at the pilot programme that was run last year between four centres in the west of the country.  Clare, Limerick, Cork and Kerry participated in the league throughout the months of March, April and May and they all battled it out for a place in the final. This year saw the very welcome introduction of the Dublin Team from the Cashel Road Enable Ireland Centre. 

The final of the League is taking place next Tuesday the 29^th of April in the Institute of Technology Limerick at 11am. (Sports Hall beside the college) The top four teams going into the  final day will play for the title. Top 4 Teams will be announced shortly.

Over the duration of the league, the teams developed and learned new skills in relation to playing Boccia. The stronger teams demonstrated the skills and concentration  levels required to play the game and the  developing teams learnt the rules and regulations of game play and gained some experience of playing with developed teams.

Our overall objective of the programme is too get teams from each centre to compete in the league.  This is in turn helping to bring Enable Ireland centres together for a dedicated sports event and helping Cerebral Palsy Sport Ireland to observe the level of play across the country, hopefully finding players that would be able to compete at National and International level.

Since the final of the league last year, Boccia Development days have being run by Cerebral Palsy Sport Ireland around the country.  The training days are run to help staff of the centres develop a better understanding of what the game is and how they can run it successfully in their own centres.

If your centre is interested in participating in the league in October or would like to participate in or run a development day, please contact Brenda Hopkins, National Sports Development Officer, Cerebral Palsy Sport Ireland @ 01 6251160 or email  brenda.hopkins@cpsi.ie

Boccia League Winning Team 2007 - Ennis