1 | Running - Walking
Orienteering
SDCSP, in partnership with South Dublin County Council, G.E.N. Orienteering Club, 3 Roc Orienteering Club, Setanta Orienteering Club and Ajax Orienteering Club, has installed permanent orienteering courses in our 3 regional parks – Corkagh Park, Gr ...
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Parkruns
parkrun organise free, weekly, 5km timed runs around the world. They are open to everyone, are free and are safe and easy to take part in. These events take place in pleasant parkland surroundings and people of every ability are encouraged to take pa ...
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Park Walks
SDCC has 3 regional parks (Tymon, Corkagh, Griffeen) and a network of smaller localised ones around the county. Outdoor exercise equipment has been installed in many of these and SDCSP through its community walk leaders offers park walks to community ...
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2 | Schools
Third Level
SDCSP linked in with the Institute of Technology Tallaght in the development of their Bachelor of Science in Sports Science and Health course and has linked in with students to carry out community physical activity and research programmes. We offer c ...
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Youth Physical Activity Towa ...
In September 2010 a programme of research commenced at Dublin City University (DCU) to investigate the need for intervention with second level youth in the area of physical activity. Based on this research DCU developed the Y-PATH programme in line w ...
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Be Active ASAP – Prima ...
The Be Active After-School Activity Programme is supported by the Health Promotion Department of the HSE Dublin North East and facilitated by Local Sports Partnerships in association with the Irish Sports Council. Resources for the programme were com ...
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Active School Flag/Active Sc ...
The Active School Flag (ASF) is a Department of Education and Skills initiative which seeks to recognise schools that strive to achieve a physically educated and physically active school community. The ASF initiative is open to Primary, Post Primary, ...
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Buntús – Primary Scho ...
The Buntús programme is designed for primary school level (5 years upwards) and was developed to support teachers and childcare practitioners in introducing young people to sport and physical activity. To date the programme has been rolled out in ov ...
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3 | Unemployed
Mojo Programme/ Box Smart Pr ...
Mojo is a programme run by South Dublin County Partnership (the Community Development Co.) for men who are affected by unemployment and/or the recession and who are finding it difficult to cope. (www.mojo-programme.org)The programme has proved very s ...
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4 | Active Seniors
FitWalk Circuits
Three key components of functional fitness for older people are aerobic fitness (of the heart and lungs)strength (of the muscles)mobility (of the joints)We outline a circuit that uses the suite of outdoor exercise equipment and walking paths in var ...
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Go For Life
Go for Life is the national programme for sport and physical activity for older people in Ireland. It is run by over 1,200 volunteers called PALs. A PAL is a Physical Activity Leader who is already part of a group or club and is willing to lead activ ...
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5 | Disability Sport
SDCC – Disability Spor ...
South Dublin County Council currently Co-fund 9 sports specific Development Officers in partnership with the following NGB - FAI, Leinster Rugby, Leinster Cricket & GAA. There is various programmes which are tailored to target people with spec ...
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Sport and Physical Activitie ...
SDCSP, in partnership with Kildare Sports Partnership, has appointed Aine Coogan as the Sports Inclusion Disability Officer (SIDO). The role of the SIDO is to encourage and enable individuals with disabilities to be active participants in sport, phy ...
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