Special Olympics Ireland want 120 local volunteers

Dear Sir,

Special Olympics Ireland are issuing a call for their annual Collection Day in Louth on the 20th April. 3,000 Volunteers are needed across the island of Ireland to help the fundraising of the substantially important €600,000.

More than 8,500 athletes benefit from the sports training programmes and competitions provided by Special Olympics Ireland in clubs throughout the country every day. The money raised on annual Collection Day will help the charity maintain and further develop these crucial programmes.

Volunteers are invited to get creative as fundraising can entail more than on-street bucket collections, which will be active from 7am on April 20th throughout the country. Coffee mornings, sponsored walks and any amount of fun inventive ideas are being utilised all over the Wee County in an attempt to raise the €600,000 in 24 hours.

Louth athletes like 12 year old Fionn Farrell and 37 year old Brid Heeney rely on volunteers from Louth and around the country to help raise this crucially important amount. Special Olympics are asking for 1200 volunteers from Leinster to dawn volunteer bibs, shake buckets and get involved.

Local TD Fergus O’Dowd will be volunteering, and calls on the ‘people of Drogheda to come along and help the Special Olympics reach their goal. It’s only possible with the selflessness of volunteers’. Drogheda is currently looking to recruit 120 Collection Day volunteers.

Special Olympics gives every person with an intellectual disability across the country

So come along, get a bib on and get involved.

Legendary GAA commentator and long-time supporter of the charity Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh has lent his voice to the campaign.

Special Olympics Ireland.