Community Games is an Olympic styled movement founded in 1967 by Dublin man Joe Connolly. The aim of the movement is to encourage and foster community spirit and a love of sport and culture among members of the community, To provide the youth with a wide variety of opportunities for participation in the activity of their choice. To develop a sense of team spirit, discipline, leadership and responsibility amongst the youth. To encourage parents, guardians and everyone over eighteen years to play an active roll in this development.

Community Games is open to every girl and boy under the specified age on July 31st on the year of compeation.

The Community Games in Arklow was founded in 1978 and over the past twenty two years many hundreds of young people have participated in communtiy games at Area, County, Provincial and National level.

None of this would have been possible but for the magnificent sponsorship we received in kind and cash from so many people.

Arklow Community Games caters for girls and boys whose ages range from four to under seventeen years in many different types of sporting and cultural activities.