Latest News From Polio Survivors Ireland

Polio Survivors Ireland wishes to recruit a part-time Volunteer Officer to join our strong and dedicated staff team. This is a fixed term contract renewable subject to funding from the Health Service Executive. The main focus of this role is on recruiting new members, encouraging volunteering within the organisation, and supporting these in their roles. The […]

We were delighted to have Councillor Vicki Casserly and Senator Annie Hoey join us for our disability Town Hall – thank you so much for making the effort to come and speak to our members! It was also fantastic to have Eileen Dunne moderating such an interesting and valuable discussion.

We were delighted to attend the launch of ‘The Value of Adult Vaccination in Ireland’ – a report from the Office of Health Economics (OHE), commissioned by GSK- at Leinster House on Wednesday. The panel of speakers included our Chair, Macrina Clancy, along with Kate O’Connell (Pharmacist and former TD), Simon Brassell (OHE Consulting Ltd), […]

Congratulations to polio survivor Mick Keegan, a worthy and surprised winner of the Jim Costello Polio Hero Award. Mick has been a fantastic spokesperson for Polio Survivors Ireland in the media and has been an absolute stalwart of the Telephone Support Service. We will have more on Mick’s reaction in the Autumn Survivor magazine.

The Spring Survivor Sweepstakes Draw took place on Tuesday 11th June, in our Coleraine House office, just ahead of Conference 2024, at which we announced the results. The four numbers drawn were 1, 7, 8 and 20. No-one matched four numbers on this occasion. With no winner so far this year of the €1,000 prize, […]

For those who were unable to make it to our Conference in person, we are delighted to release our recording of the event for people to watch at home. We have divided the Conference video into four parts, which will be accessible at these links: – Conference Opening and Presentation of the Jim Costello Polio […]