In the mid-eighties and up to 1992 I worked in a place that was known locally as ‘’The Shed’’: Roxton, Corofin County Clare. I am a native of there and from a family of 13 children. My family expected me to remain an invalid at home: and go to mass, with only the annual trip … Continue reading The West Awakes, and Making Waves in Clare, by Dermot Hayes
I employed my first assistant in 1984, shortly after Liam Maguire’s death. I was 33 years of age, and Liam was such a huge figure in the disability rights movement of the time and had had such an influence on me I decided a book about his life should be written. I … Continue reading My Experience of Employing Personal Assistants – We must Have the Courage to Bite the Hand that Feeds Us – By Peter Moore
I am a Celtic Tiger cub. I was just eight years old when the first Centre for Independent Living was established in Carmichael House in 1992. Back then, I had no idea that there was an Independent Living Movement. Little did I know that a group of activists were out there struggling to … Continue reading Why I’m here, by Sarah Fitzgerald
