Irish Wheelchair Association - Sport
We are delighted to to host a Para Sport Expo event on Friday the 22nd of July from 10am to 2pm at the Irish Wheelchair Association in Clontarf, Dublin. The event promises to be a great opportunity to learn about the different para sports in Ireland currently and how to get involved in them. There
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Irish Wheelchair Basketball senior squad set to depart for IWBF European B Championships. The Irish Senior Wheelchair Basketball team has been announced in advance of their participation in the European B Championships this coming July in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The tournament will feature ten teams including the hosts, who are, Lithuania, Austria, Latvia, Portugal, France
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This weekend sees the preparations of our men’s wheelchair basketball senior team step up a gear for our upcoming participation at the European Championships in Sarajevo with a visit of the GB U23 team to compete for the Invacare Wheelchair Basketball Challenge Cup. The GB team will visit in preparation for the 2017 U23 World Championships in
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We’re delighted to announce details of our annual members only summer camp. This year and for the first time our camp will run over five days from Monday 18th until Friday 22nd of July. We welcome children with a physical disability and their siblings to attend between the ages of 5 and 17 years. For
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Yesterday, June 16th, we held the first ever National Boccia Finals in IWA which was the culmination of a brilliant few months of regional competition. Boccia is played in most IWA Community Support centres around the country and following a successful pilot competition in the North East region it was established that there would be
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The IWA-Sport 2015 annual report is now available. The report provides a comprehensive review of the year across the many sports programmes we ran in addition to acknowledging the many achievements of our members outside our own programmes. The following short summary gives a snap shot of the year but please refer to the report
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Members of IWA-Sport are invited to submit nominations for the Athlete and Volunteer Awards for 2015 before February 8th. The annual Awards recognises the achievements of our Athletes and Volunteers both on and off the playing field and courts annually and the presentations will take place following the IWA-Sport AGM on February 27th. To nominate,
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Notice is hereby provided of the Annual General Meeting of IWA‐Sport which will be held on Saturday 27th February 2016, at 2.00pm sharp, in the IWA Sports Centre Clontarf, Dublin 3. Please note the following documents for your perusal; (All documents will be available on the day or if you would like a hard copy
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We are delighted to announce the details of the Hula Hoops Irish Wheelchair Basketball National Cup Final to be run as part of the Basketball Ireland Hula Hoops Cup Final weekend at the end of January. Ballybrack Bulls will face Limerick Scorpions in the inaugural final which is one of 11 National Cup Finals sponsored
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The inaugural Wheelchair Basketball National Cup Semi finals will take place this Saturday the 5th of December in IWA,Clontarf. The prize for the winners is a final date on the Basketball Ireland National Cup Finals weekend in January 2016. The first semi final will see Titans Wheelers from Galway play Ballybrack Bulls from Dublin at
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