More Than 60pc Of Disabled People Struggle To Live On Disability
MORE than 60pc of people with disabilities are struggling to live on their income and many regularly have to go without food and heat to make ends meet, according to a wide-ranging survey by Rehab Group. As Rehab Group, one of the country’s largest disability charities, launches its pre-budget submission it surveyed almost 700 of […]
Rehab Group Urge Government To Ratify UN Convention On Rights Of Persons With Disabilities
EXPLORER Mark Pollock joined campaigners from Rehab Group and a number of prominent disability charities today, to urge the Government to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Ireland first signed the UN CRPD a decade ago, in March 2007, but have as yet not made it legally binding by […]
Major Cancer Survival Gap In Ireland
People from the most disadvantaged communities in Ireland have a significantly lower chance of surviving cancer after five years according to new research presented to the Irish Cancer Society Charles Cully Memorial Lecture today. The new data has been compiled by the National Cancer Registry of Ireland and is due to be published in early […]
