Second deaf person awarded with doctorate

Tipperary man Noel O’Connell has become the second deaf person in Ireland to be awarded with a doctorate.

A graduate of Mary Immaculate College in Limerick, Dr O’Connell chose deaf education for his study of deaf people’s experience of education and culture.

Dr O’Connell believes many deaf people come up against barriers to education because teachers use a language that is inaccessible to them.