News Archive

  1. Connecting Universal Access Groups: A Digital Dawn

    Issued: 8 February 2021, 12pm

    During 2020 DFI’s Community Development team held 1 National and 4 Regional Universal Access Network meetings with 38 …

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  2. Local decisions that affect people with disabilities and Disability organisations

    Issued: 8 February 2021, 10am

    Local decisions include how local, national, and EU funding is spent in your community on Housing Employment Education …

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  3. Wicklow County Council Internal Disability and Inclusion Steering Committee.

    Issued: 3 February 2021, 11am

    December 2020, the elected members of Wicklow County Council voted to ratify a new internal Disability and Inclusion …

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  4. Impact of Covid-19 on People with Disabilities in County Kerry

    Issued: 2 February 2021, 2pm

    People with the lived experience of disability in Kerry were facilitated to come together by the Disability Federation …

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  5. Access for All Regional Network Meetings

    Issued: 10 November 2020, 11am

    DFI invite you to join us online for the Regional Network meetings for  Access and Disability Interest Groups from …

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  6. Independent Living Skills - County Galway

    Issued: 18 September 2020, 1pm

    The second day of the project registration took place on Thursday 17 September!  People interested in …

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  7. Updated information on Healthy Ireland Galway County Independent Living Skills Training!

    Issued: 16 September 2020, 7am

    Project partners have continued to work together to secure the schedule of training delivery this autumn.  We are …

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  8. New Social Distancing Guidelines impacting on Accessibility for People with Disabilities

    Issued: 31 August 2020, 12pm

    In order to safely re-open our towns and cities, local authorities around the country have been tasked …

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  9. Galway City and Wicklow Making all the Right Moves

    Issued: 31 August 2020, 12pm

    Recently, we explained why DFI are concerned about how new mobility plans, put in place to allow for social distancing, …

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  10. DFI join 2019's Blue Flag Beach Jury

    Issued: 31 January 2019, 10am

      DFI’s woman in the South, Áine O’Sullivan, joins the jury for 2019’s Blue Flag beaches this week.   This …

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  11. Drawings from the Unlocking Freedom Conference

    Issued: 12 July 2018, 11am

    A picture really does speak a thousand words. These animations from our Unlocking Freedom Final Conference reflect …

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  12. Help make Croke Park more accessible and win tickets!

    Issued: 5 July 2018, 9am

    DFI are working with Croke Park to try and improve access for people with disabilities. It is such a part of Irish …

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