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A local support agency organised a job shadow day last week (April 22) in Athlone, with widespread participation across the Midlands.

There are 700 car parking spaces in the town core of Westport, of which 31 are disabled car parking spaces. Nineteen of these spaces are fully accessible for wheelchair users. The remaining 12 are ambulant disabled car parking spaces, provided for non wheelchair users.

Enable Ireland Disability Services is asking people with disabilities and parents of children with disabilities in Mayo to take part in an online survey investigating their experiences of taking part in social and leisure activities.

A range of technologies designed to make the lives of visually impaired people easier will be on display at the Victoria Hotel in Galway on Saturday November 21 from 11 to 4pm.

Action Week on Disability takes place this month, and one Galway company is already planning to promote pizza parties in aid of Enable Ireland.

Kilkenny Borough councillors are to begin working on creating a mindset change among the public towards disability access.

Westmeath Community Development, in conjunction with the Department of Social and Family Affairs, are organising a further services and information open day for people with disabilities on Thursday September 10 from 11am-4pm in the Shamrock Lodge Hotel Athlone.

One the world’s leading thinkers on equality and non-discrimination law will give a public lecture at NUI Galway tomorrow (Friday).

St Canices’ National School, Granges Road, is to receive Government funding for the provision of two new classrooms according to Deputy John McGuinness.

Fine Gael Senator Fidelma Healy Eames congratulated the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) on its participation in the college admission scheme which aims to make it easier for those with disabilities to access third level education.