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MS Ireland are delighted to announce that we will be hosting our National Conference on Saturday, November 19th from 10am - 4:30pm.

The European Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (ECTRIMS) Congress is taking place in Amsterdam this week. They are holding a special event for people living with MS on Saturday, October 29th which can be attended virtually. Click here for more information or to register fo this event.

Mark Twain once said, “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” 

 I'm sorry, but that is not how things work in my world, dear Mr. Twain. To put it another way, you are aware that specific knowledge resides somewhere in your brain. It simply takes a few diversions in order to function, make decisions, and extract information, so the information frequently comes to you later than you had anticipated. 

So, if you have MS, you more than likely either experienced it, or forgot you once had it. 

The MS Readathon is on the horizon and for me it always signals a cosy fire, a cup of tea and lots of good books to read as winter closes in. As a child I remember participating in the Readathon at school and now, as an adult, I love to see my children curled up with a good book, getting lost in the story and bringing the characters to life in their imaginations.

Over the past ten years or so I’ve been able to attend a number of the MS Ireland National Conferences held in different towns and cities across the country. I’ve always found the talks and topics really interesting and enjoyed getting together. If a talk wasn’t relevant to my specific MS experience, I liked having the opportunity to meet other people to learn how they deal with MS and share notes.

We have made a slight change to the agenda for our upcoming virtual conference. Dr Guido Guinti Garcia will be presenting from 4:30 – 5:30 rather than during the parallel sessions as previously stated.

The title of his presentation is: Involving people with MS to design digital health tools for fatigue: the More Stamina Case. If you still need to register for the National Conference you can do so here.

MS Ireland considers evidence based research in all areas of our work but particularly within the services we provide. You can read below about the research based services we provide and how you can get involved.

MS Ireland provides a number of evidence-based programmes that provide health promoting physical activity for people with MS. Primarily the research evidence comes from our collaboration with the MS Research Team at the University of Limerick. That collaboration and the evidence that it yields began in 2006 with the Getting the Balance Right programme and continues now with programmes like Better Balance and Step it Up.