National Accessibility Week 2014 - Celebrating Accessible South Dublin County

05/12/2014

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National Accessibility Week 2014 – Celebrating Accessible South Dublin County

On Monday, 1st December 2014, Mayor Fintan Warfield officially launched National Accessibility Week in South Dublin County in the RUA RED Arts Centre.

Local Authority National Accessibility Week 2014 started Monday, 1st December and will run until the 8th December. This Week is an important annual opportunity for local authorities to encourage everyone to focus on issues of accessibility for disabled people. Councils, businesses and community groups across the country are being asked to use the Week to highlight the accessibility of their facilities and services; and to encourage wider society to also be more inclusive of the varied access needs of disabled people. The week is an initiative of the Local Authority Access Officer Network and the LGMA National Disability Steering Committee.  

South Dublin County Council has been promoting accessibility in various ways throughout the Week and we were delighted, in partnership with the Institute of Technology Tallaght, to start the week with ‘Laurence Clark Live’. Laurence is an internationally-acclaimed comedian, writer, actor, and disability rights campaigner.

Named Shortlist magazine’s Funniest New Comedian and runner-up at the Edinburgh Fringe’s Laughter Awards, Laurence Clark is one of the UK’s most exciting comedians to break through. Laurence is also the star of BBC1's We Won’t Drop the Baby and BBC2's Are You Having A Laugh?

“Rising comedy star… blackly funny” Daily Telegraph

'Intelligent and mischievous' **** Metro 

'Tired from laughing' ***** Adelaide Advertiser

Steve Cummins from The Laughter Lounge and author of “Where Do Daddies Come From”, hosted the event.

For further information contact: the Communications Unit at communications@sdublincoco.ie

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  Damian Roche, Mayor Fintan Warfield, Steve Cummins, Selina Bonnie, Martin Naughton
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  Martin Naughon and Selina Bonnie
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  Mayor Fintan Warfield with Damian Roche
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  Mayor Fintan Warfield with Laurence Clark
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  Mayor Fintan Warfield with Laurence Clark and Selina Bonnie
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  National Accessibilty Week Poster