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Directing astute noises
Yesterday LGBT Noise held a protest outside the opening of the International Eucharistic Congress in the RDS. Like it was going to change anything? The real question that might be asked is if it was a...
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Government consultation with people with disabilities
Last week I attended a consultation organised by the National Disability Authority on behalf of Minister for State with responsiblity for Disability and Mental Health, Kathleen Lynch. Your Voice,...
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James Reilly emails FG members
Minister for Health, James Reilly wrote to members of Fine Gael today. I thought you might be interested to see the contents. A winter of discontent ahead, how patients are not going to suffer when all...
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Parents against everything?
The long awaited publication of the wording for the Children’s Rights Referendum has been widely welcomed. Since the publication I have been listening to experts and the Minister for Children discuss...
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For those who can, please stand
It has been a busy month. When the Paralympics began I like many other people with disabilities wondered what the impact would be on the attitudes of the general public, primarily whether messages of...
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A Bad Week
Labour party members received an email from Eamon Gilmore this afternoon. Subject is ‘a bad week’, it appears to be an attempt to soothe concerned/upset members. He’s been busy while away in New...
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Community supports and the HSE budget in 2013
The Department of Health and it’s ministerial team held a press conference after the budget yesterday to talk about the budget and the estimates for health expenditure in 2013. I am surprised at the...
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The Bigger Picture
The debate over the budget both in Leinster House and the media has continued the oppression and invisibility of people with disabilities and older people who require care and support in Irish society....
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Enda Kenny seeks to reassure the FG troops
Enda Kenny’s weekly email message to Fine Gael members includes this paragraph on the cabinet decision on legislating for X. The aim of Government here is to include clarity and legal certainty in...
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Happy New Year
Hello 2013. The laptop has been turned off since December 21. It still works and I have remembered how to type! I’ve been saying a lot to myself in my head in the weeks that have passed. It’s better...
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Taking things on the chin
FG’s Digital Media team have issued advice to TD’s regarding taking social media criticism on the chin. Bizarrely though we are now of course all looking for FG’s #tcot (Top conservative on t’nternet)....
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Waiting for the law
While waiting for the publication of the report of the Review Group into Mobility Allowance and Motorised Transport Grant (5,000 people with disabilities are going to lose up to 20% of their income at...
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Guest Post – Indulging the Exiles
Damian O’Broin is the director of Ask Direct, a fundraising and direct marketing agency. Let’s get the disclosures out of the way first, shall we? I earn my living in the charity sector, and have done...
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His Excellency on Water and other issues
Later this month in Cardiff a group calling itself the Interaction Council will launch a book of papers by former world leaders offering ‘authoritative insights into topics from the Middle East and...
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Dear Nervous Nellies
Yes you … stop looking over your shoulder… you who watched Claire Byrne Live and began to panic about the Marriage Referendum and started worrying about what was going on, who was doing what and the...
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The health of the 25 % and the nation
Wrote most of this recently in hospital on my iPhone where I had the time as nothing else to do but observe the health system at work and participate in it! I am one of the 25% of the population who...
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