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# Disability

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This blogger's open letter to a woman who shamed her for using a disabled toilet is going viral
21 Feb 2015
10.8k
7
College lecturers accused of not doing enough to include students with disabilities
18 Feb 2015
12.0k
22
Jamie Brewer is the first model with Down Syndrome to walk in NY Fashion Week
12 Feb 2015
16.7k
37
My daughter is clever, funny, and full of life. So why am I so worried about her future?
Laura Drumm
12 Feb 2015
4.4k
73
Staff taken off-duty after "concerns" at Tipperary disability unit
18 Dec 2014
11.9k
18
Empowering people with a disability - by handing them the purse strings
7 Dec 2014
6.5k
12
Scared of flying? What about piloting a plane blind?
19 Oct 2014
8.9k
10
Opinion: What springs to mind when you think of artists with disabilities?
Padraig Naughton
7 Oct 2014
390
4
338 cars clamped in Dublin for parking in disabled space in first half of year
6 Oct 2014
9.6k
77
Opinion: 'The medical card review scheme is a shambles'
Vivian Rath
3 Oct 2014
3.5k
27
Disability groups demand an end to 'draconian' cuts
1 Oct 2014
4.8k
3
More people with intellectual disabilities are using the internet, but it's still very low
1 Oct 2014
3.5k
10
Opinion: Domestic violence victims who are disabled face multiple obstacles to help
Margaret Martin
24 Sep 2014
636
20
Opinion: Why do so many businesses ignore the needs of disabled patrons?
Vivian Rath
26 Aug 2014
369
59
Those with bowel conditions should get extra water allowance, says councillor
23 Aug 2014
14.4k
50
Opinion: Volunteering isn't hard, you can just sit and have tea with someone
Mark Farrell
17 Aug 2014
87
18
Horses are helping children with disabilities to gain confidence and trust
20 Jul 2014
7.4k
5
Finding your phone difficult to use? Here's how to make things easier
19 Jul 2014
17.3k
11
Funding to be restored to 30 health and disability groups
18 Jul 2014
6.3k
19
Opinion: Older people and Gaeilgeoirí are right to be indignant – this Cabinet doesn't care about them
Peter Kavanagh
16 Jul 2014
228
66
'Continued effort needed' to tackle stigma towards mental health issues
9 Jul 2014
4.2k
7
'Wonderful news': Ronan gets medical card back after 'exhausting' campaign
27 Jun 2014
11.6k
26
Inspections on children's disability services finds majority provide good quality care
27 Jun 2014
4.2k
NUI Maynooth team chosen to compete in major student tech competition
20 Jun 2014
4.8k
5
Blind adventurer to give TED talk on hope four years after becoming paralysed
18 Jun 2014
11.2k
13
Opinion: If the HSE doesn't understand Down Syndrome, how can it care for those with it?
Louise Hall
27 May 2014
189
44
Man in wheelchair carried off DART as no ramp available at Donaghmede station
26 May 2014
21.8k
92
Opinion: Being ill is hard – having to fight for every basic human right is much, much harder
Corina Duyn
23 May 2014
250
33
Opinion: I couldn't clearly watch my brother play in Croke Park because I’m in a wheelchair
John O'Brien
12 May 2014
2.0k
24
Blind man attempts to draw things he's never seen
11 May 2014
5.0k
Opinion: Across Europe, equality is being obliterated by austerity
Rachel Mullen
28 Apr 2014
82
25
No evidence of consent for use of restraints at Enable Ireland residential home
23 Apr 2014
8.5k
39
Expert says disabled child's home needs overhaul - council says there's no money
14 Apr 2014
16.2k
39
Here's What Happened Today: Thursday
3 Apr 2014
23.0k
7
HIQA report finds internal doors in disability care unit locked
3 Apr 2014
11.9k
45
It's been over a year - so what's happening with the Mobility Allowance?
29 Mar 2014
7.0k
10
Samsung develops ultrasonic phone case which detects everything around it
14 Mar 2014
11.1k
27
Jobseekers appeals taking over 25 weeks to process
8 Mar 2014
10.8k
23
"We're all like you - we're all people": Irish documentary explores sexuality and disability
17 Feb 2014
14.2k
47
Irish people talk about romance, sexuality and disability
14 Feb 2014
2.2k
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