HUNDREDS of protesters marched on health authority offices in counties Galway and Mayo yesterday demanding an end to cuts in disability services.

DISABLED people and their families whose respite support is hanging by a thread are to take to the streets of Dublin this week in a desperate bid to stop further cuts to services.

A CENTRE for the intellectually disabled, which was criticised in a human rights report, has seen its funding slashed by €1.8 million.

A CRITICAL shortage of speech and language therapists has left thousands of people with untreated speech defects and language difficulties, in some cases for up to three years.