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Friday 27 November 2020
The organisation last year received a Government bailout.
The 23-year-old is now a doubt for the opening rounds of the Heineken Champions Cup.
The Leinster and Ireland flanker has found the sport he loves to be a tough watch since his horror knee injury.
In March the Supreme Court ruled the PAC acted unlawfully in its questioning of the former Rehab CEO.
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.
Ireland’s Robbie Brady is relieved to be back playing after a difficult few months.
The Awards aim to recognise the achievements of the country’s everyday heroes.
The presenter has stepped aside from upcoming TV commitments.
The presenter will return to rehab where he had previously spent a stint last year in an attempt to conquer an addiction to painkillers.
Rehab uses the former grounds of the Polio Fellowship, after it merged in the 1980s, but campaigners say they no longer receive support.
After rupturing ligaments in her knee, Ireland and Manchester City full-back Megan Campbell is on the long road back to full fitness.
The rehab centre in Marea opened in October this year to help ex-jihaists reintegrate into society.
“To put it simply, we are not in the business of ‘rehabilitation’. We are in the business of changing hearts and minds around disability.”
Israel Dagg will spend the rest of 2017 resting a knee injury after a stop-start year for the All Blacks and Crusaders.
Instead, the status of a ‘protected person’ will be created for people who can’t give consent.
The High Court decided that two-thirds of costs would be just.
The Everton and Ireland defender is set for a long spell on the sidelines after breaking his leg against Wales.
The Hollywood star said he had recently completed treatment.
A cost-saving decision to move people with severe intellectual disabilities away from their long-term home was overturned.
The court previously heard he had a “tragic background” but was now anxious to rehabilitate himself.
Today’s High Court judgement against the former Rehab Group CEO brought to an end a saga that lasted almost three years.
A statement on the Facebook page of Gascoigne’s representatives, A1 Sporting Speakers, confirmed the news.
The list also includes some extraordinary acts of heroism.
“It was a big mess,” a police officer said after the clashes which followed protests at the centre.
At present it is a criminal offence for a person to conduct such a relationship with someone with an intellectual disability.
It’s been a long road back for the blindside flanker, who is positive about the new regime.
The former CEO of Rehab’s damages case against the Public Accounts Committee continues today.
The former CEO of Rehab’s damages action against the Public Accounts Committee continued this morning at the High Court.
Earlier the High Court heard that former Rehab CEO Kerins ‘self-harmed’ after her infamous PAC hearing in February 2014.
The former CEO of Console has been asked to return the award which he won in 2014 following recent allegations of wrong-doing at the charity.
The 25-year-old collapsed shortly after his 10th-round stoppage loss to Chris Eubank Jr.
The Care Trust, affected by its parent charities’ scandals, is back in the black – but all is not as it seems.
Last night’s ceremony celebrated the country’s everyday heroes.
‘People are saying it’s this massive high mountain. Then you go through it and for me it’s a kind of a biggish little hill.’
The Ulster wing is heading back towards full fitness after enduring a frustrating 2014/15 season.
She currently earns €140,000.
Kerins claims she was treated unfairly by TDs serving on the committee at the time in their questioning on Rehab accounts.
They tried to make him go to rehab but he said…okay, but for one night only.
Senior party figures are distancing themselves from the idea of Flannery returning ahead of the next election.
The former Fine Gael strategist quit the party in controversial circumstances last March.
THE GREYHOUND RACING industry has been put in the spotlight again this week, the Social Democrats put forward a motion proposing to end State funding of the sector.
Writing for TheJournal.ie this week, TD Holly Cairns explained that greyhound racing in Ireland will receive €19.2m in public funding next year – an increase of €2.4m on 2020.
Last year, an RTÉ investigation claimed that almost 6,000 greyhounds were killed for not racing fast enough in 2017.
But advocates for the sector have claimed it supports thousands of jobs and that annual Government funding represents an economic investment.
So, today we’re asking: Should the Government stop funding greyhound racing?
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