One Day - Many Voices

Interview with Peter Mc Williams from Employability Galway, who shares an encouraging message to our listeners, that people with disabilities make excellent workers. Encourages those with any form of disability to contact them.

Avril Graham from Independent Living Movement Ireland highlights the systemic barriers disabled people face regarding transport, employment, and the need for self-determination.

Lydia Smyth, Programme Coordinator with Doras Buí, a community-based resource supporting parents alone in Ireland.  Lydia looks back at the organisation's beginnings in 1980's Ireland, when being a single parent carried significant stigma and was often seen as outside the traditional idea of family.  While attitudes have changed, lone parents continue to face many challenges, including childcare, co-parenting after separation, financial pressures and housing insecurity. 

Doras Buí supports a diverse range of families, including parents who, because of the housing crisis, may still be living under the same roof as an ex-partner.  They also work with very young parents and those experiencing isolation who are looking for connection.  

www.dorasbuí.ie

Eamonn Casey chats about caring for her mother Deirdre, who in her 70's, is living with dementia. We discuss the changes he first noticed that prompted a diagnosis and the difficult decisions that lay ahead. Dementia is currently being explored in a Coronation Street storyline involving the character Debbie Webster

www.alzheimer.ie

Trina Mara chats to engaged couple Cathal Cully and Rebecca Wilson about their Project DMSH: Different Minds, Same Heart. Cathal is autistic and didn't speak until he was 4 years old whilst Rebecca is more recently diagnosed with autism and ADHD. They are advocates for autism and ADHD and are currently planning their neurodiverse friendly wedding.

https://linktr.ee/projectdmsh