RTE and the National Lottery could not make the set of Winning Streak accessible for a disabled participant to play the various games. Derek Mooney did the things that she couldn’t do. Equal Status Act how are you! That is my abiding memory of Saturday night telly – after I got over the shock of […]
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So the holiers were blissful and I return post ‘C’mon Everybody‘. What did I miss? Gwan fill me in!? 28 degree Tenerife turned into freezing Dublin quickly enough today and I had my first hot chocolate of the ‘season’. Whilst waiting for herself to emerge from Butlers on Henry Street I had a first. I […]
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As I pack the bags for the somewhere other than here I find out that one of the Celebrities going to go Wild and ‘raise thousands for People in Need‘ is Michelle de Bruin. Ah I predict the content of Monday’s Liveline already. Some might query the attempts by someone banned for tampering with a […]
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‘Charity advertising serves as the calling-card of an inaccessible society’. David Hevey 1992 In 1981 Evan Kemp wrote in the New York Times about the Jerry Lewis telethon in the USA which raises money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. The telethon emphasizes the desperate helplessness of the most severely disabled. In doing so, it reinforces […]
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