It’s DIT Disability Awareness week this week and I wanted to give it a mention because there is a lot of innovation amongst the students in working to raise awareness. The Sign language Society and others have been working with other student clubs on societies on things like poker tournaments through sign and the Guitar […]
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If you are thinking about not voting – watch Dan talk about the election and voting for people with disabilities. Congratulations to Sunbeam Media and everyone involved. If you know someone with a disability who is registered to vote see what you can do to help them vote on February 25th if they are not […]
Fine Gael published their manifesto today and as part of my review of the party’s manifestos here is the section on disability. (Pg. 33) 8. Disability Fine Gael will ensure that the quality of life for people with disabilities is enhanced and that resources allocated reach the people who need them. To achieve this, we […]
The Disability invisibility cloak is being lifted on the General Election. Now lets see if the parties and their representatives can talk about it! The Labour Party launched their manifesto today The section on Disability A fair deal for people with disabilities Labour remains committed to an approach to disability in Ireland based on rights, […]
There is a danger when we do get to the ‘social’ aspects of the campaign that the issue of rights and position of people who are minorities or oppressed and disadvantaged in our society will be reduced to economic units. A danger? In fact it’s a sure cert, because for the past few years the […]
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