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Joan Jordan
28 Mar 2024

How MS Piqued My Interest in Ethics

Often people ask me what I do all day given that I don’t have a full-time job anymore. I assume the question is coming from a positive place - that there is a genuine interest in how many chronically ill people spend their days. If we don’t talk about these things, then we miss the chance to clear up any misconceptions.

Willeke Van Eeckhoutte 2021
Willeke Van Eeckhoutte
21 Mar 2024

Neurology waiting room, 10 years later

Ten years ago, while waiting for a neurology appointment at Beaumont Hospital, I wrote a heart-wrenching blog post about the unpredictability and unfairness of having multiple sclerosis. Next month, I will go back to the scene of the crime - and in the same month I received my diagnosis, no less.

 

MS Ireland
13 Mar 2024

The All Ireland Multiple Sclerosis Research Network (AIMS-RN) Summer Fellowship Programme is Now Open for Applications

The AIMS Research Network will provide talented undergraduate students with the opportunity to acquire experience in multiple sclerosis (MS) research during the summer of 2024. The aim of the award is to encourage promising undergraduates to consider a research career focused on MS and make discoveries that can ultimately halt disease.

Rosie Farrell
Rosie Farrell
07 Mar 2024

A Letter to My Husband

Dear Niall,

Eight years ago I held your hand on a still May morning as we set off on our third Darkness into Light walk for Pieta House, a charity that we both owe a lot to. I knew our whole world was about to change. After three weeks in hospital the previous October, having undergone every test and multiple lumbar punctures, the threat of those two words clung to everything - Multiple Sclerosis.

People sailing in the Oceans of Hope Challenge
MS Ireland
01 Mar 2024

CEO Robert Munns' Inspirational Journey through the Oceans of Hope Challenge

The inspirational co-founder and CEO Robert Munns of the Oceans of Hope Challenge talks about the original Oceans of Hope which was sailed by an active crew of over 100 people with MS from across the globe. The circumnavigation sought to change the perceptions of what is possible when living with a chronic and debilitating condition. Oceans of Hope changed the mindset from disability to ability and led to Robert’s inspiring story of setting up the charity. 

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