by MM Support | Saturday, 15 May, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Rachel Mewes After having listened to Brendan O’Connor’s interview with Richard Dawkins on RTE I was filled with such rage that I feel the need to write about this. Firstly, O’Connor handled Dawkins’ hateful views towards people with Down’s Syndrome with grace and...
by Dan White | Tuesday, 11 May, 2021 | Uncategorized
When I was 3, I taught myself how to play violin. My grandma Rose had played, and it was hers. I would play it almost upside down with the scroll propped up in a corner. They just assumed I was bored. “They” as in most of my family (I was bored. Don’t get me...
by Dan White | Tuesday, 4 May, 2021 | Uncategorized
Disability is the forgotten sibling of any progressive social movement. Disability is always last in line for political and media attention and deserves better as a talented, multi-diverse, and progressive community bordering on 14 million people. The exact same can...
by Dan White | Tuesday, 20 April, 2021 | Uncategorized
Political silence. The one thing you would not expect in the charity sector, especially in an era when disability is being ground deeper and sadly further into the dirt by an ableist and unwilling to listen Government. But it is there, and why you might ask. Well, in...
by Dan White | Sunday, 18 April, 2021 | Uncategorized
I was healthy and able-bodied up until the end of 1996 when I was 26 years old.I got to do all the things that a healthy and able-bodied person gets to do without ever thinkingabout how lucky I was to be doing it.I climbed trees and fell out of them, I rode motorbikes...
by MM Support | Sunday, 11 April, 2021 | Uncategorized
Comment by Jennifer Krencisz When I hear the word “autism,” I’m flooded with childhood memories. It’s been an integral part of my upbringing. It was much more unknown in the 1980s. In fact, that wasn’t even my brother’s initial diagnosis. Autism was feared, and...
