# disability - Yesterday’s News
Singer NC Grey describes what it was like to lose sight unexpectedly in one eye – and how it has impacted her life.
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# disability - Monday 7 October, 2019
The scheme provides funding towards extra schooling in July for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder or severe learning disability.
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# disability - Wednesday 2 October, 2019
Advocates say people with disabilities have been facing a housing crisis of their own.
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# disability - Sunday 8 September, 2019
The allegations are contained in documents released to TheJournal.ie under the Freedom of Information Act.
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# disability - Tuesday 3 September, 2019
In 2018, 206 complaints or concerns were received by Confidential Recipient for Vulnerable Persons.
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# disability - Saturday 24 August, 2019
Learning additional languages is often very challenging for students with dyslexia.
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# disability - Monday 19 August, 2019
Organisations have said young people with a disability will have “a further barrier to equality placed before them”.
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# disability - Saturday 17 August, 2019
The council will begin enforcement from the start of next month. Business owners aren’t happy.
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# disability - Friday 2 August, 2019
The accused, now aged 24, had delayed his case by five years after skipping court in 2014.
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# disability - Thursday 6 June, 2019
You might roll your eyes at yet another millennial taking issue over the order in which we put the words – but labels matter, writes Brigid O’Dea.
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# disability - Wednesday 22 May, 2019
The July Provision Scheme provides funding for extended schooling for children with ASD and severe/profound learning disability.
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# disability - Sunday 5 May, 2019
We should debate Thunberg’s ideas but comments that focus on the symptoms of her condition are out of order, writes Shane Dunphy.
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# disability - Monday 29 April, 2019
‘I find these interventions by members of the public quite insulting and extremely embarrassing,’ writes cystic fibrosis advocate, Benat Broderick, 15.
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# disability - Tuesday 23 April, 2019
One family told their local MEP they were facing a €2,000 annual bill.
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# disability - Friday 19 April, 2019
‘One day I realised I didn’t want to hide my arm anymore. I didn’t want to be ashamed of my body. I wanted to embrace it,’ writes Paralympian Ellen Keane.
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# disability - Saturday 16 February, 2019
Stop sharing videos of disabled people attempting to walk up the aisle, or stand for their first dance – pretending to be able-bodied is far from inspirational, writes Eileen Daly.
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# disability - Wednesday 9 January, 2019
I believe that the unions are targeting industrial action at a minority and that this sets a worrying precedent for all minority groups, writes Adam Harris.
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# disability - Wednesday 2 January, 2019
The HSE doesn’t recognise my disability. The lack of care hours means choosing between food and a shower, writes Corina Duyn
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The service provider said vandalism is the cause in a number of cases.
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# disability - Thursday 27 December, 2018
The piece is devised and performed by an ensemble of actors with intellectual disabilities, reflecting satirically on the rise of right-wing authoritarianism.
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# disability - Thursday 13 December, 2018
‘I’m really not a fan of hiring someone because they have or have not got a disability and I, for one, would not like to be hired for a job on that basis,’ writes filmmaker Paddy Slattery.
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# disability - Monday 3 December, 2018
I thought my life was as good as over when I became disabled and lost my business, but studying at the National Learning Network changed everything, writes Keith Murphy.
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# disability - Thursday 22 November, 2018
The teenager’s family want her moved to a more appropriate residential care unit.
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# disability - Thursday 4 October, 2018
“I knew if there were mistakes in the film that they were going to be immortalised.”
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# disability - Monday 1 October, 2018
People with disabilities are more likely to experience discrimination than people who don’t have a disability.
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# disability - Saturday 22 September, 2018
Ailís Ní Ríain’s work for the Dublin Fringe Festival has been inspired by her own experiences of communication and the difficulties we can encounter with it.
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# disability - Thursday 23 August, 2018
The taxi driver changed the routine after he bought a new car.
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# disability - Tuesday 21 August, 2018
Padraig Hannafin tells his story of how the loss of his Personal Assistant has greatly reduced his independence and ability to undertake his day-to-day tasks.
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# disability - Sunday 12 August, 2018
A man lost his bid to leave a nursing home during the week.
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# disability - Sunday 22 July, 2018
The transport committee was told that new regulations are needed to force people to fold up their prams.
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# disability - Saturday 21 July, 2018
Why, at a time when we should be advancing the rights of children with disabilities as citizens of this State, are we letting them down more than ever, asks Paddy Connolly.
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# disability - Saturday 30 June, 2018
This needs to change, writes Nuala Macklin.
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# disability - Saturday 16 June, 2018
An organisation in “urgent need of funding” has criticised the lack of funding given to projects in the northwest as part of a new initiative.
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# disability - Sunday 10 June, 2018
Next week is National Carers Week, highlighting the experiences of thousands of family carers across Ireland that look their loved ones.
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# disability - Sunday 3 June, 2018
Ireland does not recognise deafblindness as a distinct disability, writes Hesline Crawford.
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# disability - Tuesday 24 April, 2018
The Dáil finally voted to accept the Convention even though not all legislation has been passed or even enacted, writes Suzy Byrne.
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# disability - Sunday 22 April, 2018
A new podcast is giving people with disabilities a platform to share their stories.
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# disability - Monday 16 April, 2018
Stewart Care Limited provides residential centres for people with disabilities.
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# disability - Sunday 25 March, 2018
There is still the belief that having a disability means that you are only half the person that you could have been, that it is not ‘normal’ and should be ‘cured’, writes Hesline Crawford.
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# disability - Friday 23 March, 2018
The supermarket chain announced a major autism-awareness initiative earlier this week.
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