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The next meeting of ÁIRC (supporting children with disabilities in Mayo) will take place on Tuesday May 15 at 8pm in Breaffy House Hotel.

An information evening for people with spina bifida and/or hydrocephalus, their families and carers will take place on Monday April 23 at the Menlo Park Hotel at 8pm.

Ballyforan native Rachel Kelly has a hectic social life between attending her local gym, meeting friends for drinks, soccer training, and regular trips to the local Dean Crowe Theatre in Athlone. Nothing out of the ordinary for a 23-year-old woman but the extraordinary thing is that Rachel is one of the first participants in StepIn, a unique supported living network for people with learning disabilities.

Free hearing tests will be available in Westmeath from Monday, March 26 and will be provided by Hidden Hearing at clinics in Coole and John Broderick Street, Athlone.

An event to highlight the obstacles people with disabilities encounter every day in Galway takes place this weekend.

People With Disabilities Ireland – an umbrella organisation for the disabled – will cease to exist at the end of next month, as the Department of Justice and Equality has cancelled its entire funding allocation in the upcoming budget.

NUI Galway’s School of Law, in association with the Employment Law Association of Ireland, will host the inaugural conference for the new LLM programme in international and comparative disability law and policy, entitled ‘Employment Law and Mental Health’, this Saturday.

Clan Beo have teamed up with UK behaviour management specialists Studio 3 to deliver a Managing Challenging Behaviour Seminar for families living in the west. The programme will be of use to families and professionals who live with the challenge of aggressive behaviour from the people they live with and care for.

Criticising the opposition for continuing to “play politics with the SNA issue”, Fine Gael's spokesperson on social protection Senator Fidelma Healy Eames has called for parents of children with special needs to be the Government's central focus by providing specialised help and support.

Michael D Higgins this week pledged to break down negative attitudes and discrimination surrounding mental illness if elected president of Ireland.