‘I just want to feel the same as everyone else’ said woman with intellectual disability in search of job

Aisling Lynam could not find a job. She sent a letter to the Irish Examiner about how those with an intellectual disability should be given a chance to work. Woodies answered her call and now she is hoping other large employers will follow suit, writes Ellie O’Byrne

“I want to feel grown up and independent. I want to feel the same as everyone else,” began the heartfelt outpouring of a young woman with an intellectual disability searching for a job.

Aisling Lynam, 25, from Swords, Co Dublin, sent a letter to several national papers last October, after years of doing up CVs, voluntary work experience, and struggling to find work.