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Interior By Design Boosts Accessibility With Easy To Install Wheelchair Ram…

Interior by Design Group have revealed how you can make your home more accessible with easy to use and easy to install wheelchair ramps. The company can adapt your home... Read more

We have five years to choose between transport heaven or hell

All opinions in this column reflect the views of the author(s), not of EURACTIV.COM Ltd. Fully autonomous self-driving cars will soon be available for sale by 2020. And they could... Read more

Electrifyingly fun to drive the Audi e tron

The Audi e-tron is the first fully electrically powered series production model from the brand with the four rings. The company presented its sporty full-size SUV – which is suitable... Read more

MakeWayGalway coming to the street where you live

The Galway City Council will be among 15 local authorities in the State taking part in the first National Make Way Day, an initiative to raise awareness of the needs... Read more

New Nissan Leaf completes 16 000 km milestone

After an epic 16,000-kilometre drive, polar explorer Marek Kaminski has arrived in Japan, having started his landmark #NoTraceExpedition in Poland three months earlier in Europe’s best-selling electric vehicle, the new... Read more

Motorised Transport Grant Closure

To ask the Minister for Health when the health (transport support) Bill will be published; the progress made towards replacing the mobility allowance and the motorised transport schemes with new... Read more

Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme

To ask the Minister for Finance the position in relation to service providers that are registered as charities availing of the disabled drivers and disabled passengers tax concession scheme in... Read more

Health Board Upcoming conferences talks campaigns and events

Health advice at the Ploughing, Alzheimer’s awareness and the risks of sitting The Disabled Drivers Association of Ireland Motorshow and Conference will be held at the RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4... Read more

Disabled parking There is widespread abuse of the badges by people

Clare campaigner says blue badges are given out too easily and more controls are needed Wheelchair-bound motorist and disability campaigner Ann Marie Flanagan at Lahinch Beach, near her home in... Read more

Stop invading my space Disabled Drivers Association urges crackdown on ille…

The message is clear from Paddy Smyth and Sean O'Kelly The illegal invasion of disabled parking spaces is one of the top problems facing disabled drivers in Ireland today, according... Read more

Department of Transport Tourism and Sport

Disabled Drivers Permits To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to introduce legislation to extend eligibility to a disabled parking permit to provide for the carers... Read more

Banned over parking offence Seize banned drivers cars.

Judge Patrick Durcan, sitting at Ennis District Court, earlier this week banned a motorist from driving for six months after the driver’s car was found parked in a disabled parking... Read more