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Aphasia Conversation Group to launch next Monday in Letterkenny

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Aphasia Conversation Group to launch in Donegal next Monday in Letterkenny

An Aphasia Conversation Group will launch in Donegal on Monday next, October 10. Aphasia (pronounced “ah-fay-zee-ah”) is an acquired language impairment. It is caused by damage to the parts of the brain associated with language. Stroke is a common ...

06 Oct 2022 at 11:33

Health & Wellbeing

Why Conversations With Friends’ realistic portrayal of endometriosis is so important

Conversations With Friends – the new Sally Rooney BBC adaptation – has certainly got people talking. It’s fair to say central character Frances, brilliantly played by Alison Oliver, is a little irritating. A navel-gazing 21-year-old trying to ...

24 May 2022 at 11:00

National News

'We must redouble efforts' - O'Gorman restates commitment to end LGBT conversion therapy

The Irish government's commitment to ending LGBT conversion therapy has been restated by the Minister for Equality. Minister Roderic O'Gorman spoke on International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia today (Tuesday May 17) to ...

17 May 2022 at 21:33

Plans set out to ban conversion therapy intended to change sexual orientation

Legislation to ban conversion therapy that attempts to change someone’s sexual orientation has been outlined in the Queen’s Speech, following a series of U-turns by the Government. The conversion therapy Bill will aim to stop “abhorrent ...

10 May 2022 at 12:55

Joe Alwyn on creating ‘accidental’ lockdown music with Taylor Swift

Actor Joe Alwyn has said he is proud of the music he and girlfriend Taylor Swift wrote together in lockdown. The London-born star, 31, has been dating singer-songwriter Swift, 32, since at least 2017, but the pair have remained ...

09 May 2022 at 11:25

Stop pathetic excuses on transgender conversion therapy ban, urges ex-adviser

A former LGBT Government adviser has urged leaders to stop making “pathetic excuses” after the Prime Minister said there are “complexities and sensitivities” around banning conversion therapy for transgender people. Jayne ...

06 Apr 2022 at 14:25

LGBT+ business champion quits over transgender conversion therapy row

The UK’s LGBT+ business champion has resigned “with a heavy heart” over the Government’s “profoundly shocking” position on banning conversion therapy for transgender people. Iain Anderson said trust and belief in the ...

05 Apr 2022 at 15:55

Groups pull out of landmark LGBT conference over conversion therapy ban change

At least one hundred organisations have pulled out of a landmark LGBT Government conference planned for this year following the “unacceptable” exclusion of transgender people from plans to ban conversion therapy. ...

04 Apr 2022 at 18:55

Religious leaders urge PM to include trans people in conversion therapy ban

Religious leaders including the former Archbishop of Canterbury have written to the Prime Minister urging him to include trans people in a ban on conversion therapy. Dr Rowan Williams is among the signatories of ...

04 Apr 2022 at 17:55

Conversion therapy ban U-turn meant to distract from cost of living – Starmer

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has suggested the Government’s double U-turn on the banning of conversion therapy was meant as a distraction from the cost-of-living crisis. Sir Keir, speaking on a visit to ...

01 Apr 2022 at 13:55

Wallis says excluding trans people in conversion therapy ban a ‘broken promise’

The first transgender MP said he is “bitterly disappointed” that people who identify as a different gender to the one they are born into will be excluded from plans to ban conversation therapy. Jamie ...

04 Apr 2022 at 23:55

Landmark LGBT conference in question after conversion therapy ban row

The Government’s first international LGBT conference could be cancelled after at least 100 organisations pulled out over the “unacceptable” exclusion of transgender people from plans to ban ...

04 Apr 2022 at 21:25

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