Dr Conama, an Assistant Professor and Director of the Centre for Deaf Studies, has been a member of the Irish Deaf Society (IDS) since 1986.

Iain Duncan Smith’s arrival at Chequers on Sunday in an open-topped Morgan car for a meeting of Brexit’s Praetorian guard seems perfectly symbolic of the fantasies underpinning the entire project.

A row has broken out between a Fianna Fáil senator and the Ceann Comhairle over the supply of an interpreter to a group of deaf people, due to travel to the Oireachtas for a debate on cuts to services.

To paraphrase a well-known commercial, ‘every little hurts’.

The Government has scrapped funding for an advocacy service provided to thousands of deaf people.

Directors of top companies have seen their median earnings increase by 14% in the past year, driven by a huge rise in share-based long-term incentive payments, according to a new report.

Directors in the UK's top firms have seen their pay rise by almost 50% in the past year, taking their average earnings to just under £2.7m, a new study revealed today.

COMMUNITIES should play a greater role in designing and delivering healthcare services, the Combat Poverty Agency said yesterday.

Mike Blair admits Edinburgh’s Heineken Cup hopes could rest on whether Murrayfield remains an unhappy hunting ground for Leinster this weekend.

INCREASING numbers of deaf children are being denied proper schooling, while the Department of Education withholds a report commissioned to ease their plight.

Getting rid of “career sexism” is vital to closing the pay gap between men and women, British Trade and Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt will warn today.

The gap between the pay of women and men in the UK is wider than previously thought and has not narrowed as quickly as previous figures suggested, new research revealed today.

Former British Conservative Party leader Iain Duncan Smith is to co-present a new BBC TV series – from a shed.