News Archive

Help Shape DFI's Future – Short Strategic Plan Survey

Issued: 24 November 2020, 6pm

DFI is working with Mary Carroll from Growth Potential to develop our next Strategic Plan. As a federation, DFI wants …

Turn your social media and meetings purple for December 3rd

Issued: 24 November 2020, 6pm

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 …

This Dec. 3rd don’t hide your support for disability!

Issued: 6 November 2020, 4pm

Not all disabilities are visible, in fact as many as 80% of disabilities are invisible. That means 514,505 people in …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …