Still a champion of people with intellectual disabilities after 50 years

INCLUSION Ireland is 50 years old this year.

If its conference (which took place in Salthill this past weekend) is anything to go by, the organisation is more vibrant and determined than it has ever been.

Inclusion Ireland is an umbrella body, that represents people with intellectual disabilities, their families, and their service providers. In fact, they have grown together. When the organisation was founded, in 1961, there weren’t that many service providers. A couple of big institutional hospitals, and several religious orders.