Martin Naughton: A passionate campaigner for the rights of disabled people
Obituary: He became active in the Irish Wheelchair Association and the Muscular Dystrophy Association and helped found the first Centre for Independent Living in Ireland
Martin Naughton: March 16th, 1954-October 13th, 2016. Photograph: Alan Betson
Martin Naughton, who has died aged 62, was a lifelong campaigner for the rights of the disabled. From early in his life, he became determined to change the historic culture that existed in Ireland that a disabled person was, in his own words, “more someone to be cared for than cared about”.