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Emma McAuley is the first person in the Republic to benefit from the
Hearing Dogs for Deaf People scheme.

DUBLINER EMMA McAuley became the first person in the Republic to use a
specially trained hearing dog to act as her ears when Chester came
into her life last year.

Chester is a two-year-old “cockerpoo”, a cross between a Cocker
Spaniel and a Poodle, who was bred by the UK-based Hearing Dogs for
Deaf People organisation and underwent extensive training to prepare
him for his life as a working dog.

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Paul went down fighting…and he’ll be sadly missed.

He refused to let his bodily weaknesses interfere with his ambition to see the world.

Dunmurry man Paul Crawford had become a good friend to Evelyn and me over the past few years and it was with great sadness that we joined his family, school-pals  and other acquaintances for a service of thanksgiving for his life in Ronnie Thompson’s Funeral Church in Lisburn last Thursday conducted by Rev. Bobby Liddle. Paul was only 47 and a man still very much in love with life.

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