November 3rd kicked off the inaugural Arklow Duck Pond junior parkrun. Over 130 children took part plus adults supporting them. Wicklow LSP was delighted to support another parkrun in Wicklow as they are a fantastic way for people to be active in their community. We now have two junior parkrun’s in the county, Bray and Arklow which take place at 9.30am on a Sunday morning and also two Adult parkruns in Avondale Forest and Russborough House which both take place on a Saturday at 9:30am. All parkrun’s are free, fun and run entirely by volunteers and all are welcome.  The […]

Wicklow Sports Partnership hosted one of 5 flagship events in Ireland for the European week of sport on Bray Seafront on September 28th.  Night time events took place all over Europe at the same time to mark the culmination of a host of activities to celebrate the European week of Sport.

In March of this year, 91 athletes competed with Team Ireland at the 2019 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. They returned to a heroes welcome with an outstanding 86 medals (30 Gold, 29 Silver and 27 Bronze) along with 46 placed finishes and many personal bests. Wicklow was represented by local athletes Aisling Beacom and Rukki Atiyota from the Blue Dolphins Special Olympics Club in Wicklow Town and Padraig Reilly from KARE Blessington. Aisling competed in swimming and won Gold in the 800m Freestyle, Bronze in the 1500m Open Water Swimming and 4th in the […]