Bianca Doherty is an occupational therapist from Cork now working in San Diego

Conspiracy theorists reading too much into experimental changes, says Jack McCaffrey

Companies can implement effective and practical measures to accommodate employees with a disability or long-term illness

Lefties face extra challenges in class but there are many ways to aid their development

‘Urgent need’ to invest in secondary school places for such children, warns campaigner

Health hero: Mary Nally founded Third Age Ireland, a national voluntary organisation which provides services, social activities and volunteering opportunities for older people

Irish ratification of UN convention on rights for people with disabilities is ‘ironic’

Pick of the prize winning gardens and don't forget to try gins laced with botanicals in a new distillery zone

FF leader says not surprised by emphatic two-to-one winning margin for Yes campaign

Government kicks legs out from under parents working on early-intervention scheme

Fiona King has been fighting a long and frustrating battle to get a desperately-needed wheelchair for her son Adam (3½), who suffers from a brittle bone disease

The trouble with relationships – we have a tendency to ignore the important ones

Partially occupied three-storey building in Dublin 12 is producing a rent roll of €287,000

As little as €0.10 of every €1 spent in charity shop goes towards charitable deeds as turning your bag of unwanted goods into cash can be costly exercise

Elsewhere, ‘designing public health’ is theme of discussion at Dublin’s Science Gallery

Challenge: a budget of €50 to buy gifts for four people; Result: perfect presents for less than €24; Feeling: smug

Groups call for supports for assistive technologies for older people and disabled

Enable Ireland appeals for funds to build €7.2m centre which will serve 640 children

Relocation of Gaeltacht service for children stalls over lack of Irish language speakers

Company has already donated more than €8m in the past 12 months