Category: News & Events

Press Release – Tuesday 21st January 2014

Senator Mark Daly’s Private Member’s Bill enters its 2nd Stage in Seanad Éireann – Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community.
The Irish Deaf Society (IDS) continues to call on the Government in the pursuit of the legal recognition of Irish Sign Language (ISL).
The bill ensures that equal rights can be availed of by Irish Sign Language users. The main provisions of the bill include:
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Elaine Grehan explains the move of Deaforward to Deaf Village Ireland

We wish to thank Tesco Ireland for supporting our bagpacking and charity fundraising in 2013.

We had a difficult year during 2013 with reduced bagpacking bookings; however, we have survived and have been able to support charities in the Deaf community. So far, over €800,000 has been paid out since 2004 and during 2013 over €48,000 was paid out to the following beneficiaries;

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From The Cork News, 3rd Jan 2014, page 24

‘The year ahead’ interviewed by Maria Tracey

Leinster 8 Connacht 0
Munster 23 Connacht 3
Leinster 7 Munster 4

Leinster won for the 2nd year in a row

Best Player of the Tournament – Joseph Watson (Munster)
Best Young Player of the Tournament – Kevin Dudley (Leinster)
Top Scorer – Joseph Watson (12 Goals)

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Gráinne Meehan has kindly sent us (Deaf Education Centre) a link to her Prezi presentation on Deaf Community members’ perspectives on Deaf Village Ireland.

You can view it here: http://prezi.com/an_5ade02trx/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share

If you are deaf or hard of hearing, we can help you.

The Women’s Aid National Freephone Helpline can offer support to deaf or hard of hearing women through our text service.

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Calling all parents of Deaf and Hard of Hearing children.

You can now view Dinah Beames Connect Learn Share presentation.

Click here: http://deafhear.com/ParentsCorner/ConnectLernShare2012KeynotePresentations.html

Six-year-old Liam Cunneen, a deaf schoolboy from Co Cork, is still receiving only one hour of education a day due to an apparent shortage of special needs resources in his school.

As reported in the Irish Examiner in September, Liam, a student of St Columba’s National School in Douglas, has been on a restricted school day since April.

Having been moved from the deaf unit to the mainstream part of the school because of an improvement in his speech, Liam now needs a full-time special needs assistant (SNA).

Source: http://www.irishexaminer.com/archives/2013/1111/ireland/aposmy-deaf-childaposs-school-is-denying-him-an-snaapos-249135.html

Tipperary man Noel O’Connell has become the second deaf person in Ireland to be awarded with a doctorate.

A graduate of Mary Immaculate College in Limerick, Dr O’Connell chose deaf education for his study of deaf people’s experience of education and culture.

Dr O’Connell believes many deaf people come up against barriers to education because teachers use a language that is inaccessible to them.

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