MEMBERS of the Clare Leader Forum are getting ready to attend the European Network on Independent Living’s Freedom Drive in Brussels this September after Shannon’s Ei Electronics donated €2,000 to the organisation.
*Padraic Hayes at home in Shannon. Photograph: Joe Buckley PUBLIC TRANSPORT is hindering persons with disabilities from employment opportunities, a Shannon based activist has claimed.
CLARE Leader Forum are in the midst of a very busy period.
Ann Marie Flanagan of Clare Leader Forum. “Rights, not charity,” that is the motto of the Clare Leader Forum, who will be organizing an online concert on the 3rd of December for International Day of Disabled People.
Two separate surveys ascertaining information on the experiences of persons with disabilities in Co Clare have been launched.
*Photograph: Martin Connolly Accessibility must be given greater priority in the awarding of contracts for rural transport services.
A petition has been launched to get a forty two year old Clare woman out of a nursing home and into a “forever home”.
*Ann Marie Flanagan. Photograph: James Sheppard Disability activist Ann Marie Flanagan (IND) has lost out in her attempts to become a Senator.
*Clare Bus making its way into Scariff. Photograph: Martin Connolly Frustration and anger has been voiced in East Clare with the antics of the National Transport Authority (NTA) who have put the future of Clare Bus on the line, once again.
*Ann Marie Flanagan. Photograph: James Sheppard Social exclusion activist Ann Marie Flanagan (IND) is one of two Ennistymon residents contesting the upcoming Seanad election.
