The IDYA are fundraising to send 2 youths and 1 leader to the WFDYS (World Federation of the Deaf Youth Section) Junior Camp for 13 – 17 year olds in Rome this July!
We need your help in sending them there! So we are hosting a table quiz! The table quiz is themed, and the theme is TV SHOWS!
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AMBO RAMBLE FOR ETHIOPIAN DEAF PROJECT
The Ambo Ramble 40km/120km Cycle Event, which is being run in conjunction with Kilgrew Cycles, will be held in Cork on Sunday, 30th June. The fee to participate in the event is 50 euro on the day, or 30 euro in advance through the mycharity.ie website.
The aim of the cycle is to raise funds for the Ethiopian Deaf Project. This is a collaborative venture between the Irish and Ethiopian Vincentian Lay Missionaries and members of the Deaf community in Ireland. Its mission is to work with the Deaf community in Ambo, Ethiopia, to assist them in their efforts to establish a Deaf school, vocational skills training centre and a Deaf centre.
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There has been a change of venue (made on 14th of June) for the come and try Squash day.
The new venue is RTE, Donnybrook, Dublin 4
DSI will hold come and try new sport…Squash for adult & youth at Fitzwilliam lawn Tennis Club, Appian Way, Dublin 6 on Saturday 29th June. Anyone can come and have a go at any time between 10am to 5pm.
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Shane Byrne (middle) with his winning entry of Irish Deaf.com’s logo competition, with Stephen Gilligan, Manager (left) and Brian Connolly, Assistant Manager (right)
Last April, Irish Deaf.com ran a logo competition. We received many entries which were difficult to judge, due to the high standard of the artwork by all artists.
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DSI is pleased to announce the up-coming fundraising Football Marathon, to be held at deaf village Ireland on Sunday the 23rd of June.
Registration is now open for 16 Men’s teams and 8 Women’s teams.
The event will last from 9.30am-6pm.
All money raised will go towards supporting team Ireland in the 2013 Deaflympics, this July.
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After Earth subtitled (12a) 1 hour 40 mins
Sci-fi odyssey. Cypher (Will Smith) and his son Kitai (Jaden Smith) are galactic adventurers who make an unscheduled stop on a future Earth when their spaceship crashes. Finding themselves on a planet evacuated by the human race and now ruled by a super-evolved animal species, the pair must undertake an epic and perilous journey to call for help, with each depending on the other for survival.
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REVISED LIMITS FOR RENT ALLOWANCE
At present approx. 86,000 people in Ireland receive Rent Allowance from Dept. of Social Protection. It is paid to people who have difficulty paying the full cost of private rented accommodation, ie those who satisfy the scheme’s conditions and whose only income is a social welfare payment.
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First ever Assisted Performance at The Pavilion theatre, Dún Laoghaire June 15th
DruidMurphy: Conversations on a Homecoming by Tom Murphy
Arts & Disability Ireland and the Arts and Health Partnership are delighted to present the first ever assisted performance at the Pavilion Theatre on Saturday June 15.
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