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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

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) 

Twenty-nine Irish charities receive donations from The Hospital Saturday Fund

Do you have a bucket list? This week for her first blog, Rosie McCormack writes about hers and how she dealt with all the holes in her bucket list post-diagnosis. 

MS Ireland has become aware that some people with MS have been affected by the recent decision by the HSE to withdraw reimbursement of Versatis medicated plasters for all conditions besides the licensed indication, which is post-shingles pain. Some people with MS have been prescribed this treatment for neuropathic pain.