AN IRISH dad and carer hoping to win a Dail seat in the upcoming election has raged: “Ireland disables people with disabilities.” Bernard Mulvany, whose daughter Sophia, 14, has spina bifida, has ...

But the summer offers little comfort for people with disabilities. Our representatives at local and national level must ...

MORE than 80,000 children in Ireland are on hospital waiting lists for consultation or treatment. But for youngsters with disabilities, delays in receiving the care they need are often only half the ...

Ireland currently has one of the the strictest abortion regulations of any European country. On Friday, May 25, that may change. Recent polls show that slightly more than half (56%) of Irish voters ...

Despite the introduction of many innovative and inclusive programmes across the country, persons with disabilities in Ireland are more than two times less likely to participate in sport than those ...

Ireland is no country for the marginalized, but then that’s not news and hasn’t been for some considerable time, and the most marginalized are those with a disability. But care and attention for the ...

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A teenage disability rights campaigner from Co Tipperary has paid tribute to actor Colin Farrell for giving her a voice outside of Ireland. Fourteen-year-old Cara Darmody was flown to Chicago to ...

Hundreds of people marched through Dublin city centre on Saturday as part of the Disability Pride and Power parade. The parade, which is only the second to take place in Ireland, travelled from the ...

Just days after French legislators affirmed a constitutional right to abortion, Irish citizens will go to the polls on March 8 to consider two amendments to the Irish Constitution that have ...

Cara Darmody with Simon Harris(Image: Mark Darmody /PA Wire ) A 14-year-old activist will tell a protest at Leinster House on Thursday that Ireland is "an international embarrassment" on child ...