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.