Simple changes such as grab rails or a walk-in shower would make it safer, but two councils have failed to assess her in her rented homes. Disabled and elderly residents can be entitled to funding ...

There was also evidence from a builder, David Leach, giving an estimate of €43,740.50, inclusive of VAT, for "upgrading the shower area in the gym including the installation of a new disabled ...

A gym firm has been ordered to pay compensation of €8,000 to an amputee for discriminating against him in a row over shower facilities and terminating his gym membership for its Sandymount gym ...

If you look at various award shows, and the few times Deaf and disabled people have won, it’s generally seen as a platform for deconstruction of how fervently they’ve advocated or represented ...

Mr Flynn had the lower part of his left leg amputated five years ago and told the gym manager that he required a hose in the shower to wash his “bits and pieces” A gym firm has been ordered to ...

Mr Flynn stated that his disability affects everything he does. Not long after Mr Flynn joined the gym, he used the disabled shower and on using the shower, he discovered it was not suitable for ...

A bill that aims to legalise assisted suicide will have a “serious and profound” negative impact on how disabled people’s lives are valued by society, MPs have been warned. Fazilet Hadi, head of ...

He said the problem is the Rakaia town supply doesn’t have the volume to run the facility at a peak flow. “All the showers, all the toilets as well as the new six-cubicle public toilet on the end.” ...