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national / health / disability issues / press release Tuesday October 27, 2009 09:55 by Biddy Hughes
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Launching today, ReConnect Autism Consultancy and Training delivers autism consultancy and training services to parents of children on the autism spectrum that result in improved quality of life. Based in Wicklow and servicing families nationwide, ReConnect Autism recently won a Social Entrepreneurs Ireland award for the social contribution of bringing the Relationship Development Intervention (RDI) programme to Ireland. ReConnect Autism is headed up by Declan Sweeney B.Sc. ACE (Autism) who brings over 16 years experience in delivering autism services in the U.K. as well as working as a Team Leader on the U.K.’s Autism Services Accreditation Programme. Please visit www.ReConnectAutism.org for more information. read full story / add a comment
kerry / health / disability issues / event notice Thursday August 06, 2009 11:02 by seán moraghan
People Before Profit Alliance has been invited to attend, and we will support and promote, the following *local protest* against the Bord Snip report. Protest organised by Kerry Network of People with Disabilities. Please assemble at The Pikeman statue, Denny Street, MONDAY 17th August @ 2pm read full story / add a comment
international / health / disability issues / news report Wednesday July 08, 2009 10:54 by Sevinch Karaca
In recent weeks, EI member organisation Egitim-Sen and the Confederation of Public Employees’ Unions (KESK) .. have suffered a series of attacks by the Turkish authorities, including the occupation and searches of the trade union premises by the security forces, arrest and preventive detention of trade union leaders and the use of excessive violence by the police against teachers demonstrating peacefully (...) On 29 May 2009, EI, together with the ITUC, wrote to the Turkish Government to protest against these anti-union attacks. Egitim-Sen and KESK received support from many trade union organisations around the world. However the authorities disregarded the international appeals to stop the attacks. Join EI in our appeal to stop the attacks on trade unions! There are currently still 22 Egitim-Sen and KESK officials in detention, including the women secretaries of both organisations. Go to www.ei-ie.org/turkey to read/sign Urgent Action Appeal.. read full story / add a comment 
national / health / disability issues / news report Saturday May 23, 2009 16:37 by Michael Gallagher
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dublin / health / disability issues / event notice Wednesday January 07, 2009 11:28 by bot
RAG Open Meeting: Feminism and Disability read full story / add a comment
international / health / disability issues / press release Monday August 25, 2008 02:01 by Ann Keilthy
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The EPDA - European Parkinson's Disease Association - has initiated a campaign to "Make Parkinson's Livable" and increase awareness of this often distressing condition. read full story / add a comment
cork / health / disability issues / event notice Wednesday June 04, 2008 20:21 by Madandproud
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The brainchild of John McCarthy, a Cork-based campaigner for the rights of people suffering from mental illness, "Mad Pride" aims to dispel commonly held misconceptions about mental illness. The day itself has a firm emphasis on fun for all the family. According to John McCarthy, there will be no leaflets, no preaching and lectures, just "a bit of craic". read full story / add a comment 
national / health / disability issues / other press Tuesday March 25, 2008 19:45 by C Murray
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The I.T Newswire is full of Information on the attendance of Mary Hanafin TD at the INTO Conference. headlines emerging discuss the secularisation of the Primary School System (only the religious would put up with the degradation that seems obvious to most parents..) and the ongoing 'reform'of the sector. I though that our 'Multi-culturalism' was strictly of White-eastern Europeans and bi-lingual Polish community, given the fight that many Nigerian parents have had to put up to have their kids access health and education services. Ms Hanafin did not dissapoint, her speech is accessible to download at:- http://www.into.ie/ROI , it is currently unavailable on http://www.education.ie (Department of Education and Science) read full story / add a comment 
national / health / disability issues / press release Thursday March 13, 2008 17:17 by Ann Keilthy
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We have had a week of events around the theme of the brain, and awareness of the 700.000 people in Ireland with a brain disorder ranging from Migraine, Acquired Brain Injury to MS and Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, all events coordinated through the Neurological Alliance of Ireland. This week, Internatinal Brain Awareness Week has received a huge amount of publicity, focussing as it has on personal experiences, and an honest look at the present state of services for those with a neurological disorder in Ireland - through the media - TV, radio, newspapers, the internet, and conferences and meetings. On Sunday (March 16th), the last day of Brain Awareness Week, the PALS branch of the Parkinson's Association (the branch for those diagnosed at a younger age) have a special meeting, in the Marine Hotel in Sutton at 3pm on Sunday March 16th, which is an open meeting because of its relevance to the Week, and indeed because it is testimony to the strength of the human spirit. read full story / add a comment
kerry / health / disability issues / press release Saturday December 22, 2007 22:02 by sean moraghan
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Cancer Services in Kerry General Hospital are to be removed and relocated to Cork. There will supposedly be a better system of care there under one of several national ‘centres of excellence’. But that means that patients from Kerry could have a two-hour trip each way (or longer) to access treatment. That is in direct contradiction to the HSE’s statements that care of patients should be given as close to their homes as possible, and that there should be a greater emphasis on delivery of care in the local community. Long trips on top of treatments and trauma can hardly constitute excellent care. read full story / add a comment
kerry / health / disability issues / event notice Saturday December 22, 2007 17:56 by Joe Schmoh
A candlelight vigil will take place at Tralee General Hospital, tomorrow Sunday 23d December at 2PM. read full story / add a comment
kerry / health / disability issues / event notice Friday December 21, 2007 18:52 by Joe Schmoh
A Candlelight vigil will be held at Tralee General Hospital to protest the withdrawal of Cancer services. (Called by the ICA) read full story / add a comment
mayo / health / disability issues / news report Monday November 12, 2007 13:22 by Cllr Keith Martin
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Caring for a relative can be a stressful and traumatic experience. The Government should do its best to help. I am upset at how many people are left caring for others and are given no support due to a means test. Anyone who cares deserves the backup of a Carer's allowance. How many of these allowances could be paid out of Bertie Ahern's self granted pay rise? Who deserves the money more? Bertie Ahern? or the carers in Westport? read full story / add a comment
cavan / health / disability issues / event notice Monday October 29, 2007 12:14 by AK
AN ambitious project, a conference organised by the Parkinson's Association of Ireland in cooperation with the PDS (NI Branches), this grew from an idea by two officers of our Cavan/Monaghan branch, who had been in touch with the PDS Fermanagh Branch. read full story / add a comment
national / health / disability issues / opinion/analysis Sunday October 21, 2007 22:49 by Seosamh an Chnoic
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How an irish middle class person's ideological beliefs led him to a life of poverty, and how he found his way out of that dark wood. read full story / add a comment 
louth / health / disability issues / opinion/analysis Tuesday October 09, 2007 16:43 by Sean Crudden
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It is scarcely enough to make a gesture towards mental patients and the mentally ill on one day of the year only. However, to mark World Mental Health Day (10 October 2007) I am posting an article which I wrote quite a few weeks ago to suggest to indymedia readers the extent of real globalisation in establishment efforts to overcome the problem of mental illness. However, as with globalisation in other areas, the question arises of how far we are on the right track? read full story / add a comment
national / health / disability issues / news report Tuesday August 28, 2007 14:13 by Con Carroll
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for those of the right and liberal. who tell us that exploitation is of the past. would be of no shock to many of us who experienced it. read full story / add a comment
dublin / health / disability issues / event notice Wednesday July 04, 2007 12:56 by Rose
Gaining Ground, Tallaght, Gaining Ground is a social meeting group for people with experience of mental health difficulties. The next meeting will take place in Brookfield Enterprise Centre, Tallaght, Dublin 24 on Sat July 14th, 11am-1pm. read full story / add a comment
international / health / disability issues / other press Friday June 22, 2007 20:07 by apophenia
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the current issue of eSkeptic tackles "Autism & Vaccination" On June 11, 2007, nearly 5,000 parents of autistic children filed a lawsuit against the [U.S.A.] federal government, claiming that childhood vaccines (specifically the mercury-containing thimerosal in the vaccines) caused their children’s autism. The previous year The New York Times ran a column that was skeptical of the claimed link between autism and vaccines, which generated this comment on an internet message board that is typical of the anecdotal thinking that perpetuates this myth: "You say, ‘There is no proven link’ between mercury and autism. There also is ‘no proven link’ between going outside in the rain and cold without a hat or coat and getting the sniffles. Look at the data: the epidemic of autism mirrors the administration of vaccines with mercury. Now that they are off the shelves (more or less), the cases are going down." read full story / add a comment
international / health / disability issues / news report Monday May 28, 2007 14:00 by Ciaron O'Reilly
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Today I attended a solidarity vigil for Gary MacLennan outside his QUT (Queensland University of Technology) disciplinary hearing. Gary and a fellow QUT academic John Hookam, are facing disciplinary hearings and possible dismissals, for objecting to a PhD project entitled "Laughing at the Disabled". Check the link below for background on the case..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEucGUEQFwA read full story / add a comment |
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