Jobs boost for disabled

BEING disabled is no bar to your dream job and a voluntary organisation aims to replicate the good news story experienced by a young woman who has been wheelchair-bound since a car accident.

Kirby Ruben, from Mallow, Co Cork, suffered a spinal injury in a car crash when she was just 16. Nine years on, despite the disability, she’s got a job she loves and employers who think she’s brilliant.

Ms Ruben’s father was the first qualified male beautician in Ireland, so she had an interest from an early age in doing massage and beauty treatments.