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Programme 13: 18th December 2009

This is our Christmas special, so tonight's programme has a lot of laughter as special guest, Australian comedian Adam Hills joins Olan in conversation. Why would an Australian comedian feature on a programme for and about people with disability? You'll just have to listen in to find out.

If you want to know more about Adam and his DVD, try www.adamhills.com

Programme 12: 11th December 2009

Dermot O'Hara, Project Manager of Derry based group Destined, and journalist Garbhan Downey, talk about a new book, Invisible Lives, published by Destined, in which adults with learning disabilities tell their own stories.

More information about Destined and about the book: www.destined.ie

Programme 13: 4th December 2009

This week, from our Outside the Box archive, Johnny McEvoy talks about how depression has affected his life.

Contacts:
Aware
1890 303302
www.aware.ie

Tickets for 'A Bit With a Dog' in aid of Brainwave
Lucy Jones: 087 6832585

'Inspired by Diabetes' Calendar:
Phone: 1850 90909 or 01 836 3022

Programme 12: 27th November 2009

Earlier this month the Centre for Excellence in Universal Design and Trinity Haus, Trinity College, Dublin, hosted the 24 Hour Universal Design Challenge 2009 in Dublin. The Challenge involved five teams of top Irish Design professionals competing over an intensive twenty four hour period, the aim being to experience how age, size and disability can be uses as inspirational triggers for creative design solutions.
Outside the Box relives the highlights of this event.

Programme 11: 20th November 2009

This week, two reports: The launch of an EIPET Resource Pack to help PE teachers make their classes more inclusive, and, from Limerick, the National Conference of Brainwave, the Irish Epilepsy Association.

Contacts:
EIPET
Catherine Carty,
Project Co-ordinator
catherine.carty@ittralee.ie
www.eipet.eu

Brainwave:
Peter Murphy,
Resources Manager
01 4557500
pmurphy.brainwave@epilepsy.ie
www.brainwave.ie

Programme 10: 13th November 2009

This week, Olan asks if equality or the Equality Authority has any future in our straitened circumstances, with panelists Angela Kerrins, Chair of the Equality Authority, Dr. Pauline Conroy and Rachel Mullen of the Equal Rights Alliance.

Programme 9: 6th November 2009

This week, Outside the Box attends the launch of a new booklet from Inclusion Ireland called 'Making Medical Decisions', designed to help people with intellectual disabilities and their families when faced with this task.

Also, a new book called The UN Convention on Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities; European and Scandinavian Perspectives has recently been published. It's a collection of essays and it's edited by Prof Gerard Quinn of NUI, Galway, and Law Professor Oddny Arnardottir from Reykjavik University, who talk to Olan about the convention and its ramifications.

Contacts:
www.mentalhealthireland.ie
www.inclusionireland.ie
email: info@inclusionireland.ie
Tel: 01 8559891

Photo: L to R Prof Gerard Quinn; Prof Oddny Arnadottir and Olan McGowan

Programme 8: 30th October 2009

This week, the launch of the Special Olympics Ireland Games 2010 in Limerick, and Gabrielle Murphy, MD of Kanchi, talks about the O2 Ability Awards.

Contacts:
www.theabilityawards.com
www.kanchi.org
www.specialolympics.ie

Programme 7: 23rd October 2009

This week we have two items, one from foreign climes, the other closer to home.

Blanca Blanco is Trocaire Programme Officer in Guatemala in Central America, and she talks about the problems faced by people with disabilities there.

John McCarthy from Cork wears many hats, being a mental health campaigner, poet, playwright, delegate to the UN, adviser to the Junior Minister for Mental Health, founder of Mad Pride Ireland, and the list goes on and on. He's also working on an amendment to the 2001 Mental Health Act to ban the use of forced electro convulsive therapy, and was recently diagnosed with cancer. Sometimes expressed in strong language, John has strong things to say about mental health and perceptions of it.

Contacts:
Trocaire, Maynooth, Co. Kildare. Tel: 1850 408408.

Programme 6: 16th October 2009

This week, our topic is intellectual disability and decision making; who makes the vital decisions? Olan is joined by Carer Frieda Finlay, Ray Burke of the Law Reform Commission, Sarah Lennon of Inclusion Ireland and Visiting Research Fellow at NUI, Galway, Michael Bach.

Programme 5: 9th October 2009

This week's topic is Osteoporosis, with Producer Gerry McArdle sitting in for Presenter Olan McGowan. The panelists are Prof. Moira O'Brien, with Michelle O'Brien, Niall McLoughlin, both from the Irish Osteoporosis Society, joined by two people who have the condition, Gárda Colm Cullen and Muriel Haire.

Contacts:
Irish Osteoporosis Society: Helpline.1890 252751. Website: www.irishosteoporosis.ie Email. info@irishosteoporosis.ie

Programme 4: 2nd October 2009

This week, the complex world of sleep, and in particular, the life threatening condition, Sleep Apnoea.
Olan McGowan is joined by experts Prof. Walter McNicholas, Geraldine Nolan, and chairman of the Sleep Apnoea Trust, and himself a sufferer, Dan Smith.

Contacts:
Irish Sleep Apnoea Trust. Helpline: 086 6053891. Website. www.isat.ie Email. info@isat.ie

Programme 3: 25th September 2009

This week, our topic is parenting and disability, with serious and humourous insights from Martin Sinnott, Louise Malicovicz, Christine Meena and Pauline Shields, all joining Olan in conversation.

Programme 2: 18th September 2009

This week, a report on the 10th World Down Syndrome Congress held last August in DCU, and we meet a rising star in the world of acting, 13 year old Joseph Barry from Cork, who has muscular dystrophy.

Contacts:
Down Syndrome Ireland. Tel: 1890 374374. Email: info@downsyndrome.ie Website: www.downsyndrome.ie

Muscular Dystrophy Ireland. Tel: freefone 1800 245300. Email: info@mdi.ie Website: www.mdi.ie

Programme 1: 11th September 2009

Outside the Box returns with a review of the state of the nation, and how disabilty organisations and issues will fare in the light of An Bord Snip Nua and the McCarthy report.

Our panelists are: Fionnuala O'Donovan from Enable Ireland, Rosemary Cratzmer from the Carers Association, John Dolan, CEO of the Disability Federation of Ireland, Des Kenny, CEO of the National Council for the Blind and Carl O'Brien, Social Affairs correspondent of the Irish Times.

Enable Ireland's Action Week on Disability begins on Monday, Sept. 15.

Contacts:
Enable Ireland
T: 087 3118237
W: www.enableireland.ie
E: communications@enableireland.ie

National League of the Blind of Ireland will host a table quiz at their premises at 21 hill St., Dublin 1 on Tuesday 15 September, 7.30 p.m. For further details phone 01 8742792.