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If you are deaf or hard of hearing, we can help you. The Women’s Aid National Freephone Helpline can offer support to deaf or hard of hearing women through our text service.

Calling all parents of Deaf and Hard of Hearing children. You can now view Dinah Beames Connect Learn Share presentation. Click here: http://deafhear.com/ParentsCorner/ConnectLernShare2012KeynotePresentations.html

Six-year-old Liam Cunneen, a deaf schoolboy from Co Cork, is still receiving only one hour of education a day due to an apparent shortage of special needs resources in his school. As reported in the Irish Examiner in September, Liam, a student of St Columba’s National School in Douglas, has been on a restricted school…

Tipperary man Noel O’Connell has become the second deaf person in Ireland to be awarded with a doctorate. A graduate of Mary Immaculate College in Limerick, Dr O’Connell chose deaf education for his study of deaf people’s experience of education and culture. Dr O’Connell believes many deaf people come up against barriers to education because…

Our Deaf Scout website had been revamped with new domain of .ie, hope you will like it into more friendly look – any comment or feedback whether big or small, please email [email protected] or [email protected] Our website: www.dublindeafscout.ie

UNICEF reports on a school in Bamako, Mali, that ensures its 160 pupils with hearing impairments have an education. Please, click on: School of Hope brings education to Malian children with hearing impairments

St Vincents DFC 1-2 Shanagangh Cliffs. (Half-time 1-0) Unfortunately we got knocked out of Frank Roe cup first round by last season title champion promoting side Shanaganagh. We tried our best, It didnt go our way. Credit to all players for give it all attitude. Keep it up for next game.

Thanks to Mark McCaffery and Tracey Treanor for their piece about the motion at Seanad Eireann in the Northern Standard paper. Source: Irish Sign Language Recognition Campaign – IDS

RTE have announced plans to have a number of programmes broadcast with Irish Sign Language (ISL) presentation. It is expected that the first programmes will be broadcast early in the morning on Wednesday October 16th 2013. Source: https://www.deafhear.ie/DeafHear/newsFeature.html?who=630