IWA Sport launches its Strategic Plan in Clontarf 

IRISH Wheelchair Association

?? Sport (IWA-Sport) launched its Strategic Plan at an event in its national headquarters in Clontarf last week. 

Joined by junior athletes, various wheelchair sporting clubs, Paralympians and other sporting organisations, IWA-Sport announced its aims to develop and promote sport, physical and recreational opportunities for people with disabilities, through a programme of quality sporting events and activities over the next three years. 

The all-encompassing ambition for IWA-Sport over the next three years is to enhance recreational and competitive sporting opportunities through a programme of quality events and activities. 

IWA-Sport have 24 sports clubs around the country providing a wide range of recreational and sporting opportunities for all levels and ages. 

In 2016, 13 IWA-Sport athletes represented Ireland at the 2016 Paralympic Games, winning four medals.Paralympian and National Champion, Declan Slevin, who is also chairperson of IWA’s National Sports Executive Committee, launched the IWA-Sport Strategy 20/20 at the Dr Oliver Murphy Sports Hall & Gym in Clontarf. 

He was joined by junior members of IWA-Sport who were participating in IWA-Sports annual summer camp. He encouraged the young athletes to pursue their sporting goals.

“I was a non-sporty carpenter but after my accident I discovered there are other strings to my bow,

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“I sometimes say to people, if someone googles you in a hundred years’ time what do you want them to see? For me the answer is that I want people to realise that I did something, I put myself out there. I lived. 

“Sport has opened up a whole new world of opportunities for me and everyone should have the right, opportunity and choice to participate in sport.

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