As a €15m state-of-the-art facility for the deaf opens in Dublin, John Cradden, who is deaf, looks at the challenges faced by a community trying to keep its identity while pursuing social integration

Thai authorities today said they are being pressured by some foreign officials to release the remaining bodies of victims from a plane crash on the resort island of Phuket.

A SENIOR garda will arrive in Thailand today to review ongoing efforts to locate the bodies of the two remaining unidentified Irish tsunami victims.

THE bodies are laid out, one to a table, as the Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) teams set about their work in Krabi’s makeshift morgue.