Visionary campaign opens doors to students with intellectual disability

IN the early 1990s, a long time ago, two women decided to pay a visit to Trinity College in Dublin.

Neither of them had been a student there, but it seemed a logical choice because at the time there was some publicity about the college’s attitude to access. The women had one simple question to ask: if you believe in access, what about access for students with an intellectual disability?

Simple, but revolutionary. The two women who asked the question had just been through a dispiriting journey around Ireland.