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25th - 31st October 2015

Date for your diary!

Vote for our video entry - Julia's Story

2nd - 6th November 2015

IMMA, otherwise known as the Museum of Modern Art in Kilmainham, always makes me imagine the dignified ghosts of old army pensioners sitting around the courtyard of the Royal Hospital in their distinctive Chelsea-pensioner red uniforms of ex-servicemen. There is a soothing feeling about the place; that of a job done, of rest, of a routine of predictable meals and duties. I am just being fanciful; I’ve never encountered anything there but modern art, but it does make me wonder about what it was like to live in the routine and care of an  old institution. 

Partners of MS are those people in our lives who travel some of the road with us. They hope for the best for us, worry with us and rejoice with us when things go our way. Nobody is perfect and people can sometimes let us down. I wonder how many of you experienced a loss similar to mine when roughly 50% of my so-called friends melted away after I was diagnosed? If a friend of mine at age 25 had been diagnosed with MS, would I have been any different? I would like to think I would have been helpful and caring and not let the diagnosis change my friendship, but who can tell for certain? MS can be a great clearer of deadwood and the friends that remain are so wonderful. Quite a few relationships went the same way in those early days of MS. One abruptly ended the first day I had to rest up due to MS; it was an instantanous deal-breaker. It really decimated my sense of self for a long time. Many relationships break down amongst ordinary people but the potential toll on our relationships can be much higher when one of us has MS. Sometimes we have just had the misfortune to partner or befriend a jerk; that can happen anyone. 

Official charity partner for 2016

This week Declan Groeger questions those amongst us who think Disable Parking spaces are a free-for-all.

A number of nominating bodies of the Seanad Administrative Panel have undertaken to make a public call for applicants who wish to be nominated to contest the forthcoming Seanad Election

In 2016, a second award was made to Dr Nonnie McNicholas from St Vincent’s Hospital who is planning to travel to the 'Karolinska Instituet' in Sweden to further her research into to the measurement of cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers indicative of disease progression in people with MS.