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The Annual General Meeting of the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Ireland, at which Board members are re-elected, is scheduled to take place on Saturday, 16th September 2023 in the Radisson Hotel, Athlone at 4.00 p.m.
We are currently seeking candidates including candidates with fundraising, sales and marketing and community development experience to go on to our panel of potential Board members. Members, Branches, Council the Board and staff may propose candidates. All nominations must be proposed and seconded by members.
Applicants, wishing to apply for a position on the Board in September 2023, are invited to submit their application form by 5.00 p.m. on 31st May 2023. The closing date for Applications under Article 56 of the Constitution is Friday, 16th June 2023
Mary McCusker (Tel 086 144 8767) is a regional worker in our Midwest office and has been helping people living with Multiple Sclerosis since early 2017. She covers Limerick and North Tipperary and is based in the MS Ireland Midwest regional office in Dooradoyle ,one of the residential suburbs of Limerick city. She provides a number of support services for people living with MS in her area. Below, Mary outlines her work and the support she can provide.
The nominations for this year’s Annual National Awards are now open. Our Annual Awards are MS Ireland’s way of recognising the contribution many of our members make within their families, local communities and MS Ireland. It is a great honour to be nominated for the Annual National Awards so we would encourage branches, individual members and staff members to nominate members who they feel deserve recognition. The closing date for receipt of nomination forms is Friday, 11th August 2023. The Annual National Awards for 2023 will be presented at the Annual General Meeting in Athlone on Saturday, 16th September 2023.
There are 3 Annual National Awards and the categories are:
- MS Person of the Year
- MS Carer/Helper of the Year
- MS Volunteer of the Year
Full details and Nomination forms are available here or from our National Office, tel. 01-6781608. We would recommend you return your nomination forms to National Office as soon as possible.
In August of 2021, MS Ireland, in collaboration with Novartis launched a voluntary national survey to explore the societal cost of MS in Ireland. It was a repeat of one conducted in 2015. This was a cross-sectional, self-reported online survey aiming to evaluate the cost of MS in Ireland in 2022 and to compare the data of this survey to the 2015 data.
The AIMS Research Network will provide talented undergraduate students with the opportunity to acquire experience in multiple sclerosis (MS) research during the summer of 2023. 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.
My Cog/Brain Fog and I have a temperamental relationship. Cog-fog is short for cognitive fog and is one of the invisible symptoms of MS. It can cause issues with concentration, memory, attention levels and even processing information. As we know Multiple Sclerosis is a disease of the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord). It also causes inflammation. In MS the signals and paths used between brain and body can misfire. Our brains have to work extra hard and this can cause our brains and bodies to become fatigued; because we have to try harder and use more energy than a person without MS, it can impact our cognitive function.
A research project currently taking place at the University College Dublin (UCD) is looking for people with and without Multiple Sclerosis (MS) to take part in a survey to learn more about the body image experience of people with MS.
Below is a description of the research project.
The MS Ireland webinar series The Unspeakable Bits” returns on the March 30th online at 8.00pm. This month the theme is ‘MS Money Matters” where the host Trevis L Gleason will talk about the planning for the 3 stages of life with MS with a panel of professionals covering financial planning, relevant law and social issues. We welcome everyone to our live webinars so if you would like to attend, please register for free here
Everyone knows that feeling when you wake up in the morning and you just don’t want to deal with the day. Maybe you have been working too hard, been too busy or are feeling a little down or unwell. Life can be exhausting; we all feel overwhelmed at times and need a well-deserved day to down tools and just be. It is certainly not an issue exclusive to people with MS or indeed any chronic illness. I do know however that it is becoming a far more regular feature in my life at the moment and I’m not sure how to feel about that. What happens when that well deserved ‘day’ of rest becomes every day? Is that a bad thing?