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5th to 11th March 2018

Today we conclude our introduction of our expanded 2018 MS & Me Blog team. There are a number of familiar faces and some shiny new additions! All are up for the challenge of writing and sharing their experience with the MS community. 

Last week, President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, honoured the recipients of the 'Science Foundation Ireland President of Ireland Future Research Leaders Award' at a special ceremony in Áras an Uachtaráin in Dublin. Five awards, representing a €7 million investment, will also support the additional recruitment of 15 research positions. Research supported by the awards will examine novel drug targeting for the treatment of various diseases.

Save the Date! 

This week Declan Groeger considers what it means to have help in the home. It’s never as simple as it sounds and when it comes to services for people with MS in Ireland, things are really very complex. 

Due to the weather warnings from Met Eireann the Regina Nathan concert scheduled for Friday evening (March 2nd) has been postponed. A new date will be announced shortly. For more information please contact Caitriona Hughes: caitrionah@ms-society.ie

MS Ireland will host the annual National MS Conference on Saturday, 22nd September in the Radisson Hotel, Athlone, Westmeath. We are also hosting a gala dinner on Friday evening (21st September) during which the annual awards ceremony will be held.

Get your glad rags on for an amazing cause. It’s going to be Frockin’ Fabulous Darlings!!

This week, Emma Rogan is reminiscing about mornings in a cold drafty boarding school in the Midlands. Read on for her take on the next forty days and forty nights.

MS Ireland has made a Patient Group Submission to the National Centre for Pharmaco-economics regarding Ocrevus (ocrelizumab)