So while the village is set to be a welcoming, highly inclusive place, there should be no question about who is running things, says Tracey Trainor, who is deaf and works in the Irish Deaf Society ...

People who are profoundly deaf may have to prove they are of "sound mind" before they have the right to make a will, according to an Irish legal text book. This curious legal anomaly was ...

The Hidden Hearing Heroes Awards were presented to nine deaf or hard of hearing individuals who have made a contribution to Irish society, community, or their workplace. Among the nine recipients ...

This simple request led to extensive research lasting over five years and I discovered stories of courageous and intelligent Irish deaf people from the 19th and 20th centuries waiting to be uncovered.

After more than 30 years of campaigning, Eddie Redmond CEO of the Irish Deaf Society (IDS) says the community still feels hugely isolated and ignored at national level. Speaking through an ...

The 72-year-old Dubliner was a founding member of Deaf Action Group in the early 1980s, which was later known as the Irish Deaf Society. She was the first deaf woman in Ireland to become a ...

TWO deaf students are campaigning to have Irish Sign Language made a Leaving Certificate examination subject. Shane Hamilton, 17, and Ellie Woods, 18, both Leaving Cert students at the Holy Family ...

However being born to deaf parents, meant that the young man would never pass the compulsory hearing test to gain admittance to the U.S. Army. Determined not to give up on his dream, the 29-year ...

Richard Dougherty is a deaf Irish architect with Hall McKnight, a Northern Ireland firm that will be designing part of the Sixth Street Development. He and I communicated via video conference ...

We talk to sign language interpreters, including those working with NPHET, who are breaking down Ireland's communication barriers The Irish Deaf Society is to host a number of events in Cork as ...

Jack joined Newsweek in 2021 and previously worked at The Irish Post, Loaded ... "Swayzee came to us two and a half years ago and is deaf," Boblet explained. "Due to this he had trouble finding ...