It’s that time of year again folks when all of us here in Down Syndrome Centre are gearing up in preparation for our annual Christmas fundraising lunch, Laughternoon.

As usual we’ll be in the Four Seasons Hotel, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, on Friday 16th December.

Tickets cost €125 per person. Tables of ten or twelve can be accommodated.

The ...

Down Syndrome Centre is hoping to organise a series of Yoga for Children classes in three locations around county Dublin. The venues will be in Sandyford (South Dublin), Castleknock (West Dublin) and Clontarf (North Dublin). 

Isabelle Kelly and Gillian Fulcher, both Yoga instructors, with special interest in Yoga for Children, and children with special needs will teach the classes. They ...

Irish International & Leinster rugby player, Shane Jennings joins siblings, Tara (11) and Harrison (9) Gaw from Dalkey, Co Dublin to launch the Gant & Hugo Boss charity promotion in Dundrum Town Centre in which 10% of all sales over the Halloween weekend will be donated to Down Syndrome Centre.

From Thursday 28th to Sunday 31st of October, every time the cash ...

With the kind support of Dunnes Stores, Down Syndrome Centre is organising a series of “Bag Packing” fundraisers in 13 Dunnes Stores outlets over coming weekends beginning October 23rd to November 6th.

We need lots of volunteers (over age 14) who would be willing to give four hours of a Saturday or Sunday to help us maximise the collection potential ...

Well known Jazz singer, Eileen Kennedy, will launch her new CD ‘You don’t know me’, in Bochellis Restaurant, Greystones, on Saturday 9th October. A regular fixture on the jazz circuit in both Greystones and Bray, Eileen very kindly produced this CD just for Down Syndrome Centre. 100% of all donations for this CD goes directly to our charity.

Tickets ...

Because of the tropical weather of last Friday which provided temperatures in the twenties and cloudless blue skies, one might have expected Saturday to have delivered fairly good weather for the Sporting Proud Triathlon. 

Not to be. The day dawned grey and cold and created some very challenging conditions for those taking part in the swim with huge waves and ...

On Thursday 9th September, the Hermitage Golf Club will host a four person team event in aid of Down Syndrome Centre, organised by our committed supporters, Cora Dixon and Jackie O'Donohoe.

The team price is €400 which includes green fees with all-day tee-times available, refreshments, goody bag, dinner voucher and excellent prizes.

Star prize for the winning team, sponsored ...

Last night (27.07.10), we held the first of our New Parent Events in the Shelbourne Hotel, D2. The objective was to provide an opportunity for new parents to meet with Angela O'Riordan, our Down Syndrome Liaison Nurse in person.

With most parents being discharged from hospital after only a couple of days, they are usually at home ...

Over the past nine months, our Down Syndrome Liaison nurse, Angela O'Riordan, has been providing her unique support and reassurance to those parents whose children have been born with Down syndrome in Dublin maternity hospitals. 

Through the referral system which has been set up, all parents who wish to be contacted have been contacted by Angela, however in many ...

On Monday July 12th, John O’Sullivan of Roly’s Bistro will be ‘turning back the hands of time’ for Roly’s Review of 1992, a novel fundraising evening in aid of Down Syndrome Centre, at which diners will choose from the restaurant’s original opening menu from 1992 and pay the same prices charged eighteen years ago.

The restaurant ...

Life Cycle 2010 is a 5k walk, a 10k run or a 20k cycle www.lifecycle2010.com

There’s something there for everyone and everyone is welcome to come along ...

If you haven't given much thought to donating a dress this year, we'd like to encourage you to consider if it might be possible to make a bit of space in your wardrobe by letting go of one or two dresses, and donating them to us for Buy My Dress 2010?

 This year there are even more simply ...

Would you be interested in taking part in this year's Flora Women's Mini Marathon, and at the same time raise sponsorship for the Down Syndrome Centre? If you are we'd love to hear from you!

If the idea of taking part in this 10k girl power has ever crossed your mind before, and it's just something ...

Early Intervention for Babies 0 - 1 is a further workshop being offered to parents on both sides of Dublin City Centre which will be delivered by our resident Speech and Language Therapist Marinet Van Vuren together with Chartered Paediatric Physiotherapist, Gloria Vaughan.

Limited to a group of 10 sets of parents, the therapists will divide the three hour Saturday morning ...

Now that the Christmas period of lazing around and eating too many goodies is properly over many of us are planning (from the comfort of our sofas!) on getting a bit fitter in the New Year. But for those of you who have already signed up for the Down Syndrome Centre Inca Trail Challenge this is when the real training ...

Laughternoon 09 takes place in just under four weeks time and joining us this year to provide the after lunch entertainment will be the exciting, new comedy talent that is Willie White.

Willie was one of the new breed of Irish comedians discovered through RTE's "Joy in the Hood" which was presented by Des Bishop. He auditioned for the ...

Our annual Christmas Lunch, Laughternoon is set to be wonderful event again this year - with even more sponsors and supporters than ever before!

The event takes place in the main ballroom, Four Seasons Hotel, Ballsbridge on Thursday 17th December.  This year we are very pleased to welcome Clarins as our overall sponsor.

Laughternoon was conceived out of an idea to ...

Down Syndrome Centre's hugely successful Christmas lunch - Laughternoon - takes place again in the Four Seasons Hotel again on Thursday 17th December.

It's a great way to kick off Christmas celebrations, with that winning mix of friends, good wine, great food and belly laughs!

This year we have taken the main ballroom to accommodate everyone and the tables are ...

From 29th April - 9th May 2010, a team of 50 men and women will undertake the Inca Trail trek in Peru in a bid to raise 250K for Down Syndrome Centre. The income will be used to fund the appointment of two Down Syndrome Liaison nurses who will provide advice, support and guidance to parents of infants with this disability ...

Tranistion year students from Loretto Abbey Dalkey undertook their first Ladies Mini Marathon in aid of Down Syndrome Centre this year.

Their teacher, Jane Coyne, developed a training schedule for the 14 girls which involved starting out from the school and running to the nearest DART station in week one. This extended to the next station and the next until ...

Madness and mayhem descended on the Royal College of Physicians on the 11th  June even before the 10.00 o'clock start of Buy My Dress when early customers wanted a sneak preview.

Once the doors officially opened we had close on 300 people through in the first 2.5 hours when dedicated followers of fashion queued outside the changing ...

Down Syndrome Centre is to be the recipient of funds from the UCD Fashion Show from 2007 - 2009 and has become heavily involved in assisting the students in putting on what has become Europe's largest student fashion show. (www.ucdfashionshow.com)

This year marked the 22nd year of a Show which began on campus in 1985 and since then ...