# disabilities - Wednesday 7 October, 2020
# Services Cut
# Services Cut
Day services have only reopened at 40% capacity.
# disabilities - Wednesday 29 July, 2020
# Dáil Protest
# Dáil Protest
Up to 100 people protested today against the Government’s failure to fully reopen day services for adults with disabilities .
# disabilities - Thursday 14 May, 2020
# Covid-19
# Covid-19
Inclusion Ireland has asked to appear before the Oireachtas Covid-19 committee.
# disabilities - Monday 27 April, 2020
# Intellectual Disability
# Intellectual Disability
Inclusion Ireland will meet Health Minister Simon Harris today to discuss the situation.
# disabilities - Saturday 11 January, 2020
# Inclusion
# Inclusion
The short film Aretha stars young actress Orla Casey, who has been acting since she was in primary school.
# disabilities - Thursday 14 November, 2019
# Cuisle Centre
# Cuisle Centre
Protests have taken place after the closure of the centre was annonuced last week.
# disabilities - Tuesday 3 September, 2019
# Confidential Recipient
# Confidential Recipient
In 2018, 206 complaints or concerns were received by Confidential Recipient for Vulnerable Persons.
# disabilities - Tuesday 6 August, 2019
# Health Spending
# Health Spending
The HSE boss has denied it is undertaking any cost-cutting measures.
# disabilities - Thursday 28 March, 2019
# U-turn
# U-turn
“I’ve been to the Special Olympics, I think it’s incredible,” he told reporters.
# disabilities - Thursday 27 December, 2018
# Singing For Survival
# Singing For Survival
The piece is devised and performed by an ensemble of actors with intellectual disabilities , reflecting satirically on the rise of right-wing authoritarianism.
# disabilities - Monday 3 September, 2018
# Aras18
# Aras18
The businessman announced last week that he would contest the presidential race again following weeks of speculation.
# disabilities - Sunday 5 August, 2018
# Just A Minute
# Just A Minute
The JAM card has proven such a success in Northern Ireland that activists are calling for its introduction here.
# disabilities - Sunday 22 April, 2018
# All About Dis
# All About Dis
A new podcast is giving people with disabilities a platform to share their stories.
# disabilities - Sunday 25 February, 2018
# Respite
# Respite
There has been no full-time respite service available in Kerry for around a year.
# disabilities - Wednesday 31 January, 2018
# Deprived
# Deprived
Lone parents and adults with a disability were worse off than other people of the same age.
# disabilities - Tuesday 30 January, 2018
# One Step Closer
# One Step Closer
Ireland is the only EU country that has yet to ratify the Convention.
# disabilities - Monday 1 January, 2018
# February
# February
A Dáil vote on the issue is expected in February.
# disabilities - Tuesday 5 December, 2017
# Finian McGrath
# Finian McGrath
The Independent Alliance’s Finian McGrath will look for his Cabinet colleagues to support his draft legislation today.
# disabilities - Saturday 2 December, 2017
# Going Out
# Going Out
Going to gigs or performances when you have a disability shouldn’t be a stressful experience. We find out more at the launch of Arts and Disability Ireland’s latest strategy.
# disabilities - Thursday 23 November, 2017
# Out With The Old
# Out With The Old
“To put it simply, we are not in the business of ‘rehabilitation’. We are in the business of changing hearts and minds around disability.”
# disabilities - Wednesday 22 November, 2017
# Irish Rail
# Irish Rail
Shane Ross has said the 24-hour travel notice period disabled passengers must give Irish Rail is ‘unacceptable’.
# disabilities - Thursday 2 November, 2017
# Census 2016
# Census 2016
Just 82.8% of people in Dublin City said their health was good.
# disabilities - Friday 6 October, 2017
# Hiqa Inspection
# Hiqa Inspection
Hiqa said that the procedures at a daughters of Charity care centre continued to present “a risk to residents’ health and safety”.
# disabilities - Tuesday 26 September, 2017
# Valproate
# Valproate
An Irish woman whose three children have disabilities will give evidence at a public hearing today.
# disabilities - Friday 4 August, 2017
# Hiqa Inspection
# Hiqa Inspection
A report on this centre in Limerick is one of 22 Hiqa inspections that were published today.
# disabilities - Friday 21 July, 2017
# Wheelchair Users
# Wheelchair Users
Earlier this month, a wheelchair user had to wait 15 minutes for Irish Rail to help her exit a train.
# disabilities - Monday 19 June, 2017
# Cycle Lanes
# Cycle Lanes
Dublin City Council released a false statement suggesting people with disabilities may be allowed use cycle lanes.
# disabilities - Wednesday 7 June, 2017
# False Imprisonment
# False Imprisonment
People with significant learning disabilities were detained in seclusion rooms which had no heating or toilet facilities.
# disabilities - Monday 29 May, 2017
# Housing Adaptation Grant
# Housing Adaptation Grant
The Housing Adaptation Grant scheme provides aid for older people and people with disabilities .
# disabilities - Thursday 25 May, 2017
# Special Needs
# Special Needs
The centre at Ballytobin is to be transferred to the HSE.
# disabilities - Monday 15 May, 2017
# Rehab
# Rehab
Instead, the status of a ‘protected person’ will be created for people who can’t give consent.
# disabilities - Tuesday 2 May, 2017
# Children's Health
# Children's Health
Children who receive the Domiciliary Care Allowance are now eligible for a full medical card.
# disabilities - Monday 24 April, 2017
# Disability Rights
# Disability Rights
President Michael D Higgins said Toolan was “a deeply committed advocate for legislation on disability rights”.
# disabilities - Thursday 9 March, 2017
# Disabilities
# Disabilities
A cost-saving decision to move people with severe intellectual disabilities away from their long-term home was overturned.
# disabilities - Friday 9 September, 2016
# Storme Toolis
From The Daily Edge
# Storme Toolis
“He wasn’t complaining.”
# disabilities - Tuesday 5 July, 2016
# Working Poor
# Working Poor
New figures released by Social Justice Ireland today show 100,000 more people are in poverty than at the start of the recession.
# disabilities - Saturday 14 May, 2016
# State Supports
# State Supports
The RTÉ presenter gave an impassioned interview on The Late Late Show last night.
# disabilities - Friday 13 May, 2016
# Irish Water
# Irish Water
The junior minister had previously said that he would not pay.
# disabilities - Tuesday 29 March, 2016
# The Trust
# The Trust
The Care Trust, affected by its parent charities’ scandals, is back in the black – but all is not as it seems.
# disabilities - Thursday 31 December, 2015
# Day Of Reckoning
# Day Of Reckoning
But have all our public buildings made the deadline?
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