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 […]

Bike Week 22nd – 30th June 2019   Wicklow Local Sports Partnership received funding from the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport for Bike Week. Applications were invited to apply for grants to those hosting a bike event.  19 schools participated and benefited from Bike Week funding which promoted cycle safety, skills and maintenance along with 7 community events were also supported by Wicklow LSP these included; Wicklow Mountain Bike Club Over 70 people took part in this mountain bike event to launch a new MTB club in Wicklow. Participants ranged in ages from 7 to 71 with leaders taking […]