This is a busy time for raising awareness for people with additional needs. This month alone, we have Rare Disease Day and Congenital Heart Defect (CHD) Awareness Week, while this week is Feeding Tube Awareness Week.
Eugune Tannam attributed the murder of “1,200 people on October 7” to Hamas (‘You can march for peace all you want, but where is condemnation of Hamas?’ – Letters, February 5), but he rehashes an analysis that is regrettably routine among Western media outlets.
Using a relic of a piece of bone from the head of Saint Brigid of Kildare to promote the Catholic Church in her honour has little to do with real religion and more to do with commercialisation and exploitation (‘Relic of ‘peace-maker’ Saint Brigid has been returned home after 1,000 years’, Irish Independent, January 29).
There’s a radio advert running at present, sponsored by a well-known supermarket chain, basically saying that ladies’ Gaelic football ought to be played to full stadiums. The voiceover says that this is down to “inequality”.