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28-453: In January 2024 Cairn Homes was announced as the new title sponsor for Community Games, investing over 3 million euro over 4 years to help grow participation and strengthen community spirit and youth empowerment. "Community Games can be quite proud of its immense achievements in a wide range of interests and, indeed, positive community developments. Community Games is a truly developing organisation spreading good-will and healthy involvement for

56-599: A banked cycle racing track, in tarmac, in celebration of the company's 200th anniversary. He then secured contractors to build it in just six weeks, after Lord Moyne turned the first sod on 1 May. The track was built around the running track, 515 yards long and 25 feet wide. Morton, with help from the CRE, also arranged for a small number of European cycling professionals to come for the headline race, with an "undercard" of Irish amateur riders. His achievements saw him voted as one of Ireland's "ten most popular public figures" by readers of

84-653: A host of different venues throughout Ireland such as SETU Carlow, Westport Golf Club, Kilkenny Watershed, and Visual Carlow. The following are some of the sports, games and activities that children can participate in in Community Games. Individual Events Young people from all over Ireland aim to qualify for the Cairn Community Games National Festivals each year. These take place over several weekends in various locations throughout Ireland. For more information on dates and

112-626: Is also the home track for the Clonliffe Harriers athletics club. The stadium hosts Shelbourne Ladies F.C. and Drumcondra F.C. , and has also been home ground for Shamrock Rovers (from 1999–2001), Dublin City , Raheny United F.C. and the now-defunct Sporting Fingal F.C. American Football games have also been held here. 53°24′04″N 6°14′42″W  /  53.401179°N 6.245063°W  / 53.401179; -6.245063 Irish Independent The Irish Independent

140-513: Is an Irish daily newspaper and online publication which is owned by Independent News & Media (INM), a subsidiary of Mediahuis . The newspaper version often includes glossy magazines. Traditionally a broadsheet newspaper, it introduced an additional compact size in 2004. Further, in December 2012 (following billionaire Denis O'Brien 's takeover) it was announced that the newspaper would become compact only. The Irish Independent

168-472: Is now blue. The stadium consists of a small covered stand with 800 seats and three sides of open terracing , bringing the total capacity up to 4,000. The stand encompasses dressing rooms and other facilities; there are also separate clubhouses for the associated clubs. The stadium complex also has indoor athletics training facilities. Morton Stadium is the centre for athletics events in Dublin city . It

196-695: The Freeman's Journal , merged with the Irish Independent . Until October 1986 the paper's masthead over the editorial contained the words "incorporating the Freeman's Journal". For most of its history, the Irish Independent (also called simply the Independent or more colloquially, the Indo ) was seen as a nationalist, Catholic, anti-Communist , newspaper, which gave its political allegiance to

224-635: The 1916 Easter Rising as "insane and criminal" and famously called for the shooting of its leaders. In December 1919, during the Irish War of Independence , a group of twenty IRA men destroyed the printing works of the paper, angered at its criticism of the Irish Republican Army 's attacks on members of the Dublin Metropolitan Police and British government officials. In 1924, the traditional nationalist newspaper,

252-482: The Irish Independent . The professional race featured was headlined by Fausto Coppi , as well as Elliott, Brian Robinson, André Darrigade, Albert Bouvet and Roger Hassenforder. At 4 a.m. on 15 June, the stadium was damaged when a bomb exploded across the road; the Republican movement denied responsibility, stating "no member of the movement was involved in this affair" and some blamed the longstanding feud between

280-686: The Pro-Treaty party Cumann na nGaedheal and later its successor party, Fine Gael . During the Spanish Civil War, the Irish Independent ' s coverage was strongly pro- Franco : the paper criticised the De Valera government for not intervening on behalf of the Spanish Nationalists . In 1961, the harp became a symbol of the Irish Independent . It originally appeared in black but was changed to green in 1972. In

308-411: The 1970s, former Heinz chairman Tony O'Reilly took over the Irish Independent . Under his leadership, it became a more market liberal newspaper and economic right-wing. By the mid-nineties its allegiance to Fine Gael had ended. In the 1997 general election , it endorsed Fianna Fáil under a front-page editorial, entitled "It's Payback Time". While it suggested its headline referred to the fact that

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336-675: The Community Games finals each year before me.. Sonia O'Sullivan, May 2013 Morton Stadium Morton Stadium , or the National Athletics Stadium , is an athletics stadium in Santry Demesne, Santry in Ireland . Often called Santry Stadium , it is the centre for athletics events in Dublin city and the home track of Clonliffe Harriers . Managed by Dublin City University , it has also been

364-597: The athletics events of the Special Olympics World Games in 2003. On 25 July 2008, a special event was held in the stadium, the Morton Memorial Meeting, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the aforementioned world mile record in an event promoted by Billy Morton. The event website is www.mortonmemorial.com where there are photos of the 1958 event. The track (both indoor and outdoor) was re-laid in late 2010. The indoor track

392-578: The benefit of all." Joseph Connolly, Founder and Honorary Life Patron (1922 - 2008). Cairn Community Games was set up in 1967 by Joseph Connolly. Initially only in Dublin as a way to deal with the problems of the lack of leisure-time activities for young people. In the first games, 3,000 took part at the John F. Kennedy Stadium in Santry ; the following year it was 5,000 - today, over 160,000 children compete for

420-845: The chance to make it to the National Festivals. For most of the game's history, the National Finals were held in Mosney , County Meath . However, as the former campsite became unavailable due to being turned into a residential area for asylum seekers , from 2009 onwards the Games were held at the Athlone Institute of Technology in Athlone, County Westmeath and then in the University of LImerick. They are now held in

448-456: The county finals. The ultimate was heading off on the train to Mosney for the all-Ireland finals, I remember and still have my little accreditation pass, just like what you get in the Olympics for access to all you need and the big book with all the results from years gone by. That's where I set my early targets and goals for future years, by looking up athletes I knew and the times they ran at

476-610: The election offered a chance to "pay back" politicians for their failings, its opponents suggested that the "payback" actually referred to its chance to get revenge for the refusal of the Rainbow Coalition to award the company a mobile phone licence. In late 2004, Independent Newspapers moved from their traditional home in Middle Abbey Street to a new office, Independent House in Talbot Street , with

504-465: The events you can visit their website . "We're Singing as One" is the theme song of Community Games written, sung, arranged and produced by Colm O'Loughlin , a former competitor at the Games. Many famous Irish people have competed in the games over the years and have very fond memories of Community Games. I always enjoyed the Community Games in Cobh with my school friends and then the trip to Cork for

532-425: The home ground for several Irish association football clubs including Shamrock Rovers and Dublin City. The modern capacity of the ground is 8,800, with a single 800-seat covered stand. The stadium was opened in 1958 with a cinder track. An inaugural series of meetings was held, and on 6 August 1958, Australian Herb Elliott shattered the world record for the mile run with a time of 3 minutes 54.5 seconds. This

560-449: The internationally-recognised CRE and another cycling group, the NCA. The stadium was repaired and the race meeting proceeded the same day, with Elliott winning the sprint, Darrigarde the points race, and then Elliott and Coppi facing off for the 4000m individual pursuit, which Elliott won at a time of 5:07. Christy Kimmage won among the amateurs. The cycling track had fallen into disrepair by

588-508: The late 1960s, and was later removed. In 1978 the stadium was resurfaced with a tartan track , making it the second such facility in the Republic of Ireland , after the UCD track at Belfield, which later became defunct. In the early 1990s it was renamed after Billy Morton, the administrator who had initiated the original track and who brought famous athletes to compete in the stadium. It hosted

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616-564: The printing facilities already relocated to the Citywest business park near Tallaght . On 27 September 2005, a fortnight after the paper published its centenary edition, it was announced that editor Vinnie Doyle would step down after 24 years in the position. He was replaced by Gerry O'Regan, who had until then been editor of the Irish Independent ' s sister paper, the Evening Herald . The newspaper's previous editor Stephen Rae

644-643: Was also formerly editor of the Evening Herald and was appointed editor in September 2012. Fionnan Sheahan was appointed editor in January 2015. Billionaire Denis O'Brien acquired a majority shareholding of the Irish Independent ' s parent company INM in May 2012. In July 2019 the takeover of INM by Belgian media group Mediahuis was approved by the Irish High Court. From 11 February 2020, it

672-561: Was announced that Independent.ie content would go behind a paywall. The Irish Independent is available on the Irish Newspaper Archives , in black-and-white microfilm up to 2004, in colour since 2005. It is also archived up to 2009 online on the British Newspaper Archive website. Since 2011, the Irish Independent has been the home of New Irish Writing (and its associated Hennessy Award), which

700-466: Was formed in 1905 as the direct successor to The Irish Daily Independent and Daily Nation , an 1890s' pro- Parnellite newspaper. It was launched by William Martin Murphy , a controversial Irish nationalist businessman, staunch anti- Parnellite and fellow townsman of Parnell's most venomous opponent, Timothy Michael Healy from Bantry. The first issue of the Irish Independent , published 2 January 1905,

728-424: Was marked as "Vol. 14. No. 1". During the 1913 Lockout of workers, in which Murphy was the leading figure among the employers, the Irish Independent vigorously sided with its owner's interests, publishing news reports and opinion pieces hostile to the strikers, expressing confidence in the unions' defeat and launching personal attacks on the leader of the strikers, James Larkin . The Irish Independent described

756-649: Was originally established by David Marcus in 1969 in the Irish Press and appeared in the Sunday Tribune from 1988 to 2011. The New Irish Writing Page is "the longest-running creative writing feature of its kind in any Irish or British newspaper". The Irish Independent , in co-operation with the Institute of Education , produces Exam Brief , a yearly six-part supplement dedicated to preparation for Leaving and Junior Certificate exams. This supplement

784-399: Was the first race in which five athletes had run a four-minute mile . Billy Morton, the businessman and administrator who started the track development for running, decided to arrange a cycling event in 1959, inspired by the progress of Ireland's first continental racing star, and only professional cyclist, Shay Elliott . He persuaded Lord Moyne , then Chairman of Guinness plc to pay for

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