ACCESS to services and disadvantages for the Clare public when it comes to health and disabilities were among the big issues put to General Election candidates on day seventeen of the campaign.
TWELVE of Clare’s community organisations have come together with the support of Clare County Council to help under-represented communities get registered to vote in advance of the local and European elections.
*Thomas Connole. TRIBUTES have been paid to North Clare native, Thomas Connole following his recent death.
*Ann Marie Flanagan and Jacqui Browne. Photograph: Tom Micks A NEW book co-produced by the Clare Leader Forum has delved into the dark reality of neglect, abuse and deprivation of liberty faced by disabled people in Ireland.
*Hilary Tonge (second from right). A DECISION by the Government to extend the period of submissions for the Green Paper on Disability Reform has been criticised by an Ennis woman.
*Trish McNamara AN ENNISTYMON WOMAN has spoken out at the “unconscious bias” against people with disabilities.
CLARE LEADER FORUM are calling for the Green Paper on Disability Reform to be scrapped.
*Dermot Hayes. Photograph: John Mangan CLARE LEADER forum will be holding a rally this Friday (December 8th) to demonstrate their opposition to the proposed Green Paper on Disability Payment Reform.
*Ann Marie Flanagan and Padraic Hayes. MEMBERS of the Clare Leader Forum are set to lodge “a strong submission” against proposals in the Green Paper on Disability Reform.
*Pictured with Cathaoirleach of Clare County Council, Cllr Joe Cooney, are Patricia McNamara and Peter Kavanagh, Clare Leader Forum, at Áras Contae an Chláir in Ennis to raise awareness of Make Way Day 2023, which takes place on Friday, 22nd September, 2023. Photo: Eamon Ward. Make Way Day, the campaign that brings the disability and …
