By Stevie Buckley The Centre for Disability Law and Policy at NUI Galway has celebrated the completion and launch of its new project ‘The Voices of Individuals: Collectively Exploring Self-determination’ (VOICES). It celebrated the achievement with an exhibition of its edited collection in the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission from 22-24 … [Read more...] about NUI Galway research project celebrates the lived experience of disabled people
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Ill-Informed: The inert fear of forever
I was merely five years old when I first remember developing a fear of cows, though my mother will argue that it began long before that. Living on a dairy farm in Kerry was challenging when I made the very essence of my surroundings into a force for fear. There is VHS evidence of me howling at a hedge at the age of five because I could hear the cows at the other side. Hear, not … [Read more...] about Ill-Informed: The inert fear of forever
Ill-informed: The Great College Game
The second installment of SIN’s newest column ‘Ill-informed’, written by Jennifer O’Connor, a member of the Disability Support Services in NUI Galway. I think that it is safe to say that so many of us have played the game Monopoly as children, and perhaps more competitively as adults. My first memory of playing the game is losing spectacularly to my father at the age of … [Read more...] about Ill-informed: The Great College Game
Ill-informed: The spectrum of understanding
This is the first installment of SIN's newest column 'Ill-informed', written by Jennifer O'Connor, a member of the Disability Support Services in NUI Galway. So many facets of life are described in terms of spectrums. A spectrum is thought of by many as a scale of progression describing colours, life stages and on occasion, disability, or illness. For those with such … [Read more...] about Ill-informed: The spectrum of understanding