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Niamh Donnelly, left, and Sinéad Burke, right, sit side by side at a recent Eversheds Sutherlands event.
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Disability in the workplace: How we can create a more inclusive environment

We sit down with Eversheds Sutherland's Niamh Donnelly, who shares her personal experience as a disabled person in…

By Shayna Sappington

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Life-changing stories: ‘Guide dog Nina is my guardian angel. She shows me the way’

Meet the extraordinary dogs transforming lives - with a little help from some extraordinary humans along the way…

By Amanda Cassidy

when you’re disabled, finding love, waiting to be loved all-consumingly by another (it doesn’t have to be a movie-centric whirlwind, a quiet loveliness is just as potent), I think feels an impossible quest.
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Love and disability: “The ‘who’d have me’ thoughts almost never leave my head”

On Cerebral Palsy Awareness Day, Jennifer McShane ponders one of the hardest aspects of her disability. I should…

By Jennifer McShane

Michelle Heffernan speaks to three women with disabilities, who must constantly endure hardship over Ireland’s response to illness.
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‘I wake up and go to bed in pain. My children have the same syndrome – that’s what gets me through’

In a time when we have all had our freedoms restricted, Michelle Heffernan speaks to three women with…

By Michelle Heffernan

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Why having a friend with an accessible home is life-changing

Louise Bruton explains why the small act of having a downstairs toilet in a friends house can make…

By Louise Bruton

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Accepting my disability and accepting being disabled

My relationship with the word disabled hasn’t always been pretty. You can probably correlate my confidence in myself…

By Louise Bruton

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Irish activist Sinéad Burke named as one of Vogue’s most influential women

Author and campaigner Sinéad Burke has been featured in British Vogue's list of 25 women shaping 2018, to…

By Erin Lindsay