Programme 13: Terry O'Brien has three times been Mayor of Tralee and currently Deputy Mayor and a local councillor for Tralee Town Council and Kerry County Council. Terry sustained a serious spinal injury as a result of a diving accident in the U.S. in 1989 and uses a wheelchair. He is married to Teresa and they have four-year-old twins, Millie and Mark. His story is featured in the book Extraordinary Lives, which celebrates 50 years of the Irish Wheelchair Association. The book is written and edited by Joanna Marsden. There's a wonderful photograph of Terry's children hitching a ride on his wheelchair on the contents page. Terry works fulltime for the Irish Wheelchair Association http://www.iwa.ie/ Producer: Bernadette Comerford

Cathy McCormack is a deaf sign language user, and for the past four years has also been a cochlear implant user. She teaches in Trinity College Dublin, and is a single-handicap golfer who has represented Ireland at the World Deaf Golf Championship.