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Disability rights group calls for ‘drastic increase’ in support
- Social Affairs
- July 23, 2018, 01:42
Ireland’s recent ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (UNCRPD) is “ironic” given the ongoing lack o(...)

Government to begin ratifying UN convention on disability rights
- Social Affairs
- March 7, 2018, 20:17
Ireland’s ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities will allow for a reassessment of the place within s(...)

In pain from her early years – the woman who made the most of it
- Health & Family
- July 4, 2017, 00:00
I was born into a family of 16 children, 6 girls and 10 boys (one brother, Thomas Patrick, died when he was seven months old) in the rural village of (...)

Bernadette Scully case: Carers group calls for statutory right to home care supports
- Health
- December 17, 2016, 16:00
Family Carers Ireland has called for a statutory entitlement to home care support for all carers in the wake of the Dr Bernadette Scully case. The su(...)

Bernadette Scully provided ‘exemplary’ care to disabled daughter
- Criminal Court
- December 9, 2016, 14:31
A doctor charged with the manslaughter of her profoundly disabled daughter cared for the child in an exemplary manner but was finding it difficult to (...)

Champion of the rights of those with muscular dystrophy
- People
- November 14, 2015, 01:00
Joe T Mooney, who has died aged 49, was chief executive of Muscular Dystrophy Ireland (MDI) and, as such, for 14 years provided distinguished leadersh(...)

Behind the News: Michael McCabe, disability rights activist
- People
- September 19, 2015
Michael McCabe is one of the 20 or so people with disabilities who, joined by supporters, camped outside the Dáil over three days this week. They stag(...)

Behind the News: Sarah Lennon, training officer with Inclusion Ireland
- People
- April 4, 2015, 01:00
What was once deemed to be a benevolent law has become one that strips away all decision-making powers from people with intellectual disabilities, (...)

Disability campaigner Martin Naughton sees dramatic change over 50 years of effort
- Social Affairs
- January 24, 2015, 01:00
Martin Naughton faced the precipice. Fourteen steep concrete steps outside the Mater Hospital in Dublin stood between him and his ill friend inside. I(...)

Latest cuts for coalface charities cruel and unnecessary
- Politics
- July 15, 2014, 12:01
Given that Michael Noonan and Brendan Howlin are still in place it would be naive to expect the new Cabinet to make big changes for the better. Howeve(...)