Disability

Children’s Minister Norma Foley

Call for a breakthrough budget to help with childcare costs

Chantelle on RTE Liveline to plead for support

Mother living in hell with her teenage son

Micheal Martin refuses to commit to ‘key target’ Cost of Disability payment

Staff shortages limiting access to technology for people with disabilities

Special needs assistants protest outside Leinster House demanding ‘job security’

‘We got this wrong,’ Tanaiste says of government handling of SNA review

Wife of Doddie Weir takes on 750-mile cycle to raise money for his charity

Cross-border project granted over eight million euros to support disabled people

No one-off disability payment but permanent proposals under way – Taoiseach

‘Immediate, co-ordinated’ approach to AI needed across government – report

Celebrity Traitors star Ruth Codd reveals she has had second leg amputation

‘This is your legacy’, Cork mother of disabled daughter tells Taoiseach

Heather Humphreys decided to drop controversial disability proposal, Harris says

Humphreys defends Green Paper on disability following senator criticism

Minister defends Humphreys after criticism from disability activist

Teenage campaigner asks for funding boost to clear assessments of need backlog

‘One in four parents view education system as inclusive for autistic pupils’ Staff reporter

Disability groups approved for millions in funding left waiting more than a year

Teenage campaigner describes shortage of AON therapists as a ‘myth’

Protest held in Dublin over lack of additional needs education provision

Taoiseach launches expansion of Wage Subsidy Scheme

Minister cannot ‘second-guess’ findings of Grace report

Commission did not establish sexual abuse in Grace case, department says

Mother of daughter with rare disability writes book celebrating difference

Private child disability assessors were paid 1.3m euro more than projected

Migrants more likely to be in work than Irish-born population, report finds

Eight million euro approved for disability projects 17 months after launch

Alice Reynolds and her son Matthew.

Down Syndrome Ireland's Leitrim branch celebrates ‘Amazing Alice’
For World Down Syndrome Day on March 21, Leitrim's Down Syndrome Ireland branch will be at The Dock Theatre, where young members will perform with Bright Sparks Youth Theatre.
Stella Gordon

Dublin parents to hold 24-hour sleep-out over ‘cruel’ lack of special placements

Disability rights campaigner thanks Colin Farrell for giving her voice in US

Parents with Cllr Paddy O'Rourke and Cllr Gary Prior during a meeting at the Bush Hotel on September 20

Property secured for long-awaited residential unit in Leitrim

Taoiseach ‘doesn’t believe’ member of his team briefed RTE on disability carer

‘We’re being pushed out’ – housing and disability raised with McDonald in Swords

Simon Harris says sorry to Cork carer for ‘not giving her the time she deserved’

Simon Harris says ‘I feel really bad’ after encounter with carer in Cork

‘Frightening lack of progress’ on children’s assessments of need, Harris told

Girl to tell Dail protest Ireland an embarrassment on child disability services

Government lays out ‘simple actions’ to improve lives of people with autism

Simon Harris pledges to ‘ramp up’ therapies for special schools in budget

‘Too many’ Irish children going to bed hungry in one of wealthiest EU states

Government to scrap proposed changes to disability payments

WATCH: Taoiseach Simon Harris updates online followers on first day as head of g...

Artists go ‘incognito’ in unique fundraiser for Irish children’s charity

Pictured: Hugh MacConville receiving long service award from Ivana Bacik, Labour Party Leader

Outgoing Labour Party chairman honoured for his long-service

Minister denies that Government did not put enough work into referenda campaign

Irish Foster Care Association launches Fostering Awareness Week 2024

Irish Foster Care Association launches Fostering Awareness Week 2024

Dublin rally hears call for strong leader and action against hatred and violence

Government pushed on introducing ‘transformative’ protocol on disability rights

Centre to help people with disabilities access public transport unveiled

Disability stereotypes may be used to justify prejudice – study

Castlemacgarrett outside Claremorris, which operated as a nursing home before closing in 2006

Mayo County Council votes to withdraw refugee cooperation

Senator Jennifer Murnane O'Connor

'Hold on a minute,' Carlow TD avoids asylum seeker protest questions in car cras...

Disability activists ‘in tears’ over proposals to change welfare payments

Pictured at the protest outside the Abbey Manor Hotel in Dromahair yesterday evening.

Arrival of refugees in Dromahair put on hold

‘Work under way’ to resolve dispute by health workers ahead of 24-hour strike

Free children’s books ready to collect in Leitrim libraries under new Government...

Gardaí catch illegally parked drivers using disabled permits belonging to dead p...

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