Kingsbridge Private Hospital Sligo are Proud to Sponsor Team Ireland at the 2017 Special Olympics.

Special Olympics, founded in 1968, is the world’s largest sports organisation for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, providing year-round training and competitions to more than 5.3 million athletes and Unified Sports partners in nearly 170 countries.

Special Olympics Ireland currently has almost 9,100 registered athletes participating in 14 sports from skiing and kayaking to gymnastics and athletics.

In 2017 Team Ireland’s largest ever delegation for a Special Olympics World Winter Games has departed from Dublin Airport for the 2017 games in Austria with a 26-stong squad.

You can find out everything you need to know and follow all the news on the Austria 2017 website: http://www.austria2017.org/en/home