Cerebral Palsy Sport Ireland

Ireland’s Paralympic Swimming Team continued their successful run today at the IPC European Swimming Championships in Iceland with 4 Irish competitors involved in today’s action.

The Irish Cerebral Palsy Football Team headed off this morning, the 20th October to compete in the 2009 World Football Championships in Holland.

Teenage swimmer from Dublin, Ellen Keane, finished with a well-earned fourth place in the 100m Breaststroke (S9 Class) this evening at the IPC European Swimming Championships in Iceland.

Ireland’s Darragh McDonald won a silver medal this evening at the IPC European Swimming Championships in Iceland in the 400m Freestyle event (Class S6).

The Irish Paralympic Swimming Team of 11 athletes and staff departed Dublin Airport this afternoon for the 2009 IPC European Swimming Championships to be held in Reykjavik, Iceland from 15th - 25th October, 2009.

Cerebral Palsy Sport Ireland will host its Annual National Athletics Championships on September the 12th in Morton Stadium Santry.

The competition is open to all Junior, Senior, Development, Competitive and High Performance Athlete

The Ireland Cerebral Palsy team have come runners up in the Home Nations Championship after beating Scotland, 3 - 2 at Lilleshall National Sports Centre in Shropshire.

The junior Soccer Team travelled up with the “B” squad to play a friendly match in Belfast against Northern Ireland on the 14th of June. The junior side is made up players 14year and under, and is a new addition to the football set up.

Following the success of the Irish squad in the Team & Pair events earlier this week at the European Boccia Championships, the Irish have continued their strong form with no fewer than 5 of the 7 member squad qualifying from their pools in the Individual competition today in Portugal

The Irish BC3 Pair today secured the European Championship silver medal in Portgual, after the narrowest of defeats in today’s final in a tie-break against the hosts. It marked the end of great day for Irish Boccia, with the BC1/BC2 Team narrowly missing out on a medal with defeat in the 3rd/4th place play off game against Spain.