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Colin Farrell launching the opening ceremony of the World Games in Dublin in 2003.
Image: Photocall Ireland
Colin Farrell launching the opening ceremony of the World Games in Dublin in 2003.
Image: Photocall Ireland
ACTOR COLIN FARRELL, a longtime supporter of Special Olympics Ireland has sent a message of congratulations to the organisation.
He was marking the 10-year anniversary of the staging of the Special Olympics World Games in Ireland in 2003.
The organisation has set his message to inspiring images from those games in June 2003 – click here to view if you can’t see this video below:
He described attending and helping to launch the 2003 Games as “one of the most extraordinary experiences of my life and I think the lives of many people in Ireland”.
Athletes, volunteers, aides and the Special Olympics Ireland organisation all deserved to take a bow for their work, he said before adding:
Here’s to another ten years of success and brotherhood and I hope everyone enjoys the celebrations this tenth anniversary of Special Olympics Ireland. Go get it lads and lassies.
Hear hear, Colin, hear hear.
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