I get more than a few visits to the blog – Google is kind to me – lots of google searches for Steve Staunton, Niall McElwee, more recently People in Need land here. This morning a commuter from yesterdays Dublin-Waterford 4.25pm train searched visited and went to the post on signage for people with disabilities […]
Entries Tagged as 'Disability'
The Dublin-Waterford Train and people who think they have a right to a seat because they paid for it
October 31st, 2007 · 5 Comments · Consumer blogging, Disability, eejit.., Equality, Irish Rail, Uncategorized
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Rights not Charity – I rest my case
October 29th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Disability, eejit.., People In Need, Telethon, Uncategorized
So the holiers were blissful and I return post ‘C’mon Everybody‘. What did I miss? Gwan fill me in!? 28 degree Tenerife turned into freezing Dublin quickly enough today and I had my first hot chocolate of the ‘season’. Whilst waiting for herself to emerge from Butlers on Henry Street I had a first. I […]
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Extreme Scootering
October 21st, 2007 · 1 Comment · Disability, Personal
I did my first wheelie in the mothership the other day. It was not intentional – but the ramp into Easons in O’Connell Street is absolutely shite. It’s the first time I’ve been on two wheels rather than four getting round a corner and it was rather cool! But I don’t think it’s my introduction […]
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People in Need Gets GreenInked
October 19th, 2007 · Comments Off on People in Need Gets GreenInked · Disability, People In Need, Telethon
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Time to Boycott People In Need and finish it off
October 17th, 2007 · 13 Comments · Disability, People In Need, Ryan Tubridy, Telethon, Uncategorized
‘Charity advertising serves as the calling-card of an inaccessible society’. David Hevey 1992 In 1981 Evan Kemp wrote in the New York Times about the Jerry Lewis telethon in the USA which raises money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. The telethon emphasizes the desperate helplessness of the most severely disabled. In doing so, it reinforces […]
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