by Geraldine Lavelle | Apr 18, 2023 | Home Page
Mayo woman awarded Alumni Award by University of...
by Geraldine Lavelle | Feb 23, 2023 | Home Page, Living
Who is affected? There are countless individuals like myself trying to move out from a clinical residential setting or a hospital environment but due to lack of ‘community supports’ like home helps and personal assistant’s this is not always possible....
by Geraldine Lavelle | Feb 15, 2023 | Home Page, Living
Despite numerous challenges and difculties, as well as failure and opposition, my steady persistence to secure a home for myself in my old community of Castlebar has been constant. I am not alone in my struggle for self-contained living. There are countless other...
by admin | Nov 24, 2022 | Home Page
In 2013, while out for a routine cycle, Geraldine Lavelle’s life changed in an instant when she was involved in an horrific road accident. The Castlebar woman suffered a spinal cord injury that left three-quarters of her body paralysed. Overnight, Geraldine had to...
by admin | Nov 24, 2022 | Home Page
Geraldine Lavelle’s life changed “in a heartbeat”. That was in October 2013 when she was left paralysed from the chest down following a collision with a lorry. The Sligo native had become accustomed to enjoying an early-morning cycle before work, until the accident...
by admin | Nov 21, 2022 | Home Page
As part of IWA’s International Day for Persons with Disabilities activity, Disability Activist and Ambassador Geraldine Lavelle writes about life, disability, attitudes, expectations and her lived experience in a powerful and moving testimony. I read somewhere...
