A warm welcome to all my readers once again. First a quick update on my latest novel – “The Irish Ripper”. 3,600 words written to date. Slow but constant progress being made. I’m finding this one easier to write so far and I’m hopeful that I will have it completed within a year. There will be plenty of violence, sex and intrigue.
A quick reminder that my other novels are currently for sale on the Amazon website. Just search under my name – “Mark Ahern”
Now for my thoughts on this week –
It was with horror that I heard on facebook about a wheelchair user in Dublin being unable to get a wheelchair taxi late at night and ultimately being forced to drive home in her wheelchair. This is 2018! Her health and safety was jeopardized.
This has been an issue in Dublin for far too long and if it can’t be solved there, what hope the rest of the country. Not much seems to have improved since I went to college there almost 20 years ago. Vantastic still closes up shop for instance, when it could continue through the night and transform the social lives of wheelchair users in particular. It is a farce.
In other news the government have made it easier to hold onto your medical card if a person with a disability takes up employment. It was always an obvious thing to do but at least they finally did something.
Sometimes you just wish you could grab people and scream – things need to happen so much faster. Peoples lives are being wasted by inaction.
On a happier note, the organization I’m involved with “Independent People with Disabilities” are co-hosting an event tomorrow the 3rd December 2018 about sport/recreation and people with disabilities and the older person. It starts at 11am in the Mullingar Park Hotel. All welcome.
One really cool bit of news I did hear during the week on a totally different subject is about American and Russian plans to set up lunar colonies. It would be a huge advance for humans. In just two or three decades time there could be someone on the moon looking up at the earth with wonder.
Well readers, that’s it for now.
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