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Bianca Doherty is an occupational therapist from Cork now working in San Diego

Conspiracy theorists reading too much into experimental changes, says Jack McCaffrey

Companies can implement effective and practical measures to accommodate employees with a disability or long-term illness

Lefties face extra challenges in class but there are many ways to aid their development

‘Urgent need’ to invest in secondary school places for such children, warns campaigner

Health hero: Mary Nally founded Third Age Ireland, a national voluntary organisation which provides services, social activities and volunteering opportunities for older people

Irish ratification of UN convention on rights for people with disabilities is ‘ironic’

Pick of the prize winning gardens and don't forget to try gins laced with botanicals in a new distillery zone

FF leader says not surprised by emphatic two-to-one winning margin for Yes campaign

Government kicks legs out from under parents working on early-intervention scheme

Fiona King has been fighting a long and frustrating battle to get a desperately-needed wheelchair for her son Adam (3½), who suffers from a brittle bone disease

The trouble with relationships – we have a tendency to ignore the important ones

Partially occupied three-storey building in Dublin 12 is producing a rent roll of €287,000

As little as €0.10 of every €1 spent in charity shop goes towards charitable deeds as turning your bag of unwanted goods into cash can be costly exercise

Elsewhere, ‘designing public health’ is theme of discussion at Dublin’s Science Gallery

Challenge: a budget of €50 to buy gifts for four people; Result: perfect presents for less than €24; Feeling: smug

Groups call for supports for assistive technologies for older people and disabled

Enable Ireland appeals for funds to build €7.2m centre which will serve 640 children

Relocation of Gaeltacht service for children stalls over lack of Irish language speakers

Company has already donated more than €8m in the past 12 months

Enable Ireland employee posted pictures of children on social media without permission

Judge says Enable Ireland employee Caroline Sheehan should seek legal advice

Enabled Ireland worker allegedly failed to remove images from Twitter despite requests

Impact says funding of care service agencies is ‘out of date’

Sarah Doran (24), Irish speech and language therapist working in Berkshire

Minister says Europe as a collective needs to do more and Ireland will accept ‘thousands’

Company has got three enforcement files from Cork council this year following planning irregularities at two other cafes

First coffee giant outlet in city found not to have planning permission

We have among the highest incidences in the world, yet Temple Street hospital can see fewer than half annually

Jerry Hall wants you to Give Up Clothes for Good.

I would have been at a very low risk for ovarian cancer. There’s no family history of it and I was under 40

City’s ethnic mix evident among participants who marched from the Claddagh to Eyre Square

Six soon to be emigrants share their plans and reasons for leaving

Charity continued running lottery despite loss because it got a State subvention

After half a century of giving people with disabilities in Ireland privacy and dignity, Cheshire Homes is looking ahead to more challenges

Turning 18 means losing access to child services, so parents of children with special needs have to rely on their own abilities to create a happy and fulfilling life for their children

Survey shows difficulties getting therapy for children with autism and other disabilities