# disabilities - Saturday 11 January, 2020
The short film Aretha stars young actress Orla Casey, who has been acting since she was in primary school.
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# disabilities - Thursday 14 November, 2019
Protests have taken place after the closure of the centre was annonuced last week.
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# disabilities - Tuesday 3 September, 2019
In 2018, 206 complaints or concerns were received by Confidential Recipient for Vulnerable Persons.
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# disabilities - Tuesday 6 August, 2019
The HSE boss has denied it is undertaking any cost-cutting measures.
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# disabilities - Thursday 28 March, 2019
“I’ve been to the Special Olympics, I think it’s incredible,” he told reporters.
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# disabilities - 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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# disabilities - Monday 3 September, 2018
The businessman announced last week that he would contest the presidential race again following weeks of speculation.
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# disabilities - Sunday 5 August, 2018
The JAM card has proven such a success in Northern Ireland that activists are calling for its introduction here.
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# disabilities - Sunday 22 April, 2018
A new podcast is giving people with disabilities a platform to share their stories.
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# disabilities - Sunday 25 February, 2018
There has been no full-time respite service available in Kerry for around a year.
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# disabilities - Wednesday 31 January, 2018
Lone parents and adults with a disability were worse off than other people of the same age.
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# disabilities - Tuesday 30 January, 2018
Ireland is the only EU country that has yet to ratify the Convention.
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# disabilities - Monday 1 January, 2018
A Dáil vote on the issue is expected in February.
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# disabilities - Tuesday 5 December, 2017
The Independent Alliance’s Finian McGrath will look for his Cabinet colleagues to support his draft legislation today.
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# disabilities - Saturday 2 December, 2017
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.
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# disabilities - Thursday 23 November, 2017
“To put it simply, we are not in the business of ‘rehabilitation’. We are in the business of changing hearts and minds around disability.”
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# disabilities - Wednesday 22 November, 2017
Shane Ross has said the 24-hour travel notice period disabled passengers must give Irish Rail is ‘unacceptable’.
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# disabilities - Thursday 2 November, 2017
Just 82.8% of people in Dublin City said their health was good.
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# disabilities - Friday 6 October, 2017
Hiqa said that the procedures at a daughters of Charity care centre continued to present “a risk to residents’ health and safety”.
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# disabilities - Tuesday 26 September, 2017
An Irish woman whose three children have disabilities will give evidence at a public hearing today.
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# disabilities - Friday 4 August, 2017
A report on this centre in Limerick is one of 22 Hiqa inspections that were published today.
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# disabilities - Friday 21 July, 2017
Earlier this month, a wheelchair user had to wait 15 minutes for Irish Rail to help her exit a train.
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# disabilities - Monday 19 June, 2017
Dublin City Council released a false statement suggesting people with disabilities may be allowed use cycle lanes.
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# disabilities - Wednesday 7 June, 2017
People with significant learning disabilities were detained in seclusion rooms which had no heating or toilet facilities.
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# disabilities - Monday 29 May, 2017
The Housing Adaptation Grant scheme provides aid for older people and people with disabilities.
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# disabilities - Thursday 25 May, 2017
The centre at Ballytobin is to be transferred to the HSE.
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# disabilities - Monday 15 May, 2017
Instead, the status of a ‘protected person’ will be created for people who can’t give consent.
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# disabilities - Tuesday 2 May, 2017
Children who receive the Domiciliary Care Allowance are now eligible for a full medical card.
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# disabilities - Monday 24 April, 2017
President Michael D Higgins said Toolan was “a deeply committed advocate for legislation on disability rights”.
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# disabilities - Thursday 9 March, 2017
A cost-saving decision to move people with severe intellectual disabilities away from their long-term home was overturned.
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# disabilities - Friday 9 September, 2016
“He wasn’t complaining.”
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# disabilities - Tuesday 5 July, 2016
New figures released by Social Justice Ireland today show 100,000 more people are in poverty than at the start of the recession.
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# disabilities - Saturday 14 May, 2016
The RTÉ presenter gave an impassioned interview on The Late Late Show last night.
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# disabilities - Friday 13 May, 2016
The junior minister had previously said that he would not pay.
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# disabilities - Tuesday 29 March, 2016
The Care Trust, affected by its parent charities’ scandals, is back in the black – but all is not as it seems.
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# disabilities - Thursday 31 December, 2015
But have all our public buildings made the deadline?
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# disabilities - Monday 26 October, 2015
Well done, Target.
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# disabilities - Saturday 3 October, 2015
For those with a disability, having a job would do wonders for thier sense of participation and her self-respect. It would also help pay the bills, writes John Dolan who says the governments new plan needs substance not spin.
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# disabilities - Monday 28 September, 2015
Dr Tom Clonan, a security analyst and former army captain, is running for the Seanad.
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# disabilities - Wednesday 26 August, 2015
Marine Richard has a condition known as Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity.
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