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This year's Brain Awareness Week takes place from the 10th - 16th March 2025 and the hashtag is #brainawarenessweek2025

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.

MS Ireland launches the May 50K fitness challenge today at the MS Care Centre, Ireland’s only national respite centre for people with MS. We are calling on participants of all ages and abilities to take up the month long challenge in May in the run up to World MS Day on May 30th. Register now from https://www.themay50k.ie

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.

Trevis Gleason’s new book, Living Well with Multiple Sclerosis, edited by Emma Rogan, is now available internationally.

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.

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.

MS Ireland is thrilled to announce the launch of its latest fundraising initiative – the Dip a Day Challenge! This exciting challenge invites participants to dive into action throughout the month of May while supporting the 10,000 people living with MS in Ireland.

• Register with enthuse to create a fundraising page https://multiplesclerosisofireland.enthuse.com/cf/dip-a-day-in-may, it only takes a couple of minutes, or email fundraising@ms-society.ie and we can send you a sponsorship card. 
  
  Once registered we will send you out your pack Dip a Day pack including a MS Ireland swim hat for your challenge. 
• Then, join our Facebook group here

Bridget, Christina and hundreds of other people with MS and their families across Ireland rely on your generosity to access the care and support they need. Please consider donating to help us keep providing these life-changing services to them all year-round. To support our Spring Appeal for the Care Centre and services it offers to people with MS, kindly visit our donations page.   

Read Bridget's Story, click here

Read Christina's Story, click here

MS Ireland are delighted to share that our colleagues in FutureNeuro are hosting a Public & Patient Involvement Information Day on Saturday, April 13th from 11am-1pm in RCSI, St Stephen's Green, Dublin 2, D02 YN77