News Archive

  1. Cost of disability doesn't add up

    Issued: 21 October 2020, 10am

    Opinion piece for The Times Ireland Edition, published Oct. 21,2020 Readers of this paper will be familiar with medical …

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  2. A Powerful Voice in the Corridors of Power

    Issued: 21 October 2020, 9am

    This week saw the first meeting of the Oireachtas Disability Matters Committee. Here our CEO, John Dolan explains why …

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  3. 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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  4. Independent Living Skills - Community Healthcare West

    Issued: 18 September 2020, 9am

    Project partners work to secure delivery of training during COVID-19!  Project partners of the Independent …

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  5. Test

    Issued: 17 September 2020, 9am

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  6. 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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  7. Our AGM hears multi-annual funding “now essential”

    Issued: 4 September 2020, 9am

    Our 2020 AGM looked back on a tumultuous year which started with an unexpected, retrospective 20% cut to our …

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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. New National Disability Participation and Consultation Network Announced

    Issued: 19 August 2020, 2pm

    DFI are delighted to see the Department of Justice begin work on the establishment of a new National Disability …

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  11. DFI Raise Unsustainable Pressures on People with Disabilities to New Disability Ministers

    Issued: 5 August 2020, 12pm

    DFI met with the new Minister for Children, Disability, Equality and Integration, Roderic O’Gorman and the Minister …

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  12. DFI Highlights Shockingly High Poverty Rates at Pre Budget Forum

    Issued: 5 August 2020, 12pm

    DFI attended the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection’s annual pre-budget forum last week, along …

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