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Minister of State with responsibility for disability Kathleen Lynch said the Assisted Decision-making (Capacity) Bill was at an advanced stage and was likely to go the Cabinet within weeks. Photograph: Alan Betson
Legislation labelling disabled as ‘lunatics’ to be replaced

New legislation to be published shortly will replace a 140-year-old law which categorises people with intellectual disabilities or mental healt(...)

Colm O Gorman, executive director of Amnesty International. Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times
Amnesty calls on Government to ratify UN rights treaty

Human rights campaigners have called on the Government to state when it will ratify a United Nations treaty to protect people’s rights to housi(...)

Staying power: Front row, left to right: Mark Griffin, Rebecca Winckworth, Dearbhla McGann, Ian Power;
There’s no place like home: the young Irish who are happy to be here

Clare Herbert, 25 is a sel(...)

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