Employers urged to change attitudes towards disabled

BETTY O’LEARY is a successful barrister. She is also blind from birth and uses information technology to guide her through her legal briefs.

It’s now six years since Betty, the second youngest of a family of 10 from Killarney, started practising law.

Betty is doing okay, but it’s still early days. “I’m a realist. It’s going to take time before I know that a career in law is for me,” says Betty, one of a number of contributors to a high profile business conference in Dublin Castle today that will urge employers to take a fresh look at disability.