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Colm Whooley

@colmjkd

Disability advocate, Founder and former CEO of Spinal Injuries Ireland. Martial arts instructor. Life and Business Coach. UNESCO speaker on martial arts.

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ILMI CEO Damien Walshe reflects on 2024: This year’s highlight? 20 transformative workshops on health & employment Disabled People came together to challenge systemic barriers, reclaim collective power and reimagine solutions rooted in rights & lived experience #DPO #SocialModel

ILMI CEO Damien Walshe reflects on 2024: This year’s highlight? 20 transformative workshops on health & employment Disabled People came together to challenge systemic barriers, reclaim collective power and reimagine solutions rooted in rights & lived experience #DPO #SocialModel
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🎉 ILMI VOICE Project Update 🎉 What a year it’s been! The VOICE Project has gone from strength to strength in 2024 Check out the newsletter If you’d like to get involved or get the VOICE newsletter direct to your inbox, email [email protected] tinyurl.com/yjxyhrth #2025

🎉 ILMI VOICE Project Update 🎉 What a year it’s been! The VOICE Project has gone from strength to strength in 2024 Check out the newsletter If you’d like to get involved or get the VOICE newsletter direct to your inbox, email nicolameacle@ilmi.ie 
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#2025
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“It doesn't matter whether you've got a disability, everybody has got self-doubt” - Chris McCausland - Pre-order my autobiography now! explains why his story resonates with both non-disabled and disabled people bit.ly/400w4cc

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New Zealand has announced plans to ban greyhound racing, citing an "unacceptably high" rate of injuries bbc.com/news/articles/…

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TDs and Animal Cruelty Issues banbloodsports.wordpress.com/2024/12/03/tds… Please contact your local TDs and urge them to back a ban on cruel bloodsports

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I started Ireland's most ambitious camera trap project in Wicklow as part of Snapshot Europe. Since 2021, I partnered with Lab of Wildlife Ecology & Behaviour + ReWild Wicklow deploying 150 cameras, collecting ~400,000 photos, and ~31 years worth of survey effort. 2024's highlights below! 🧵👇

I started Ireland's most ambitious camera trap project  in Wicklow as part of Snapshot Europe.

Since 2021, I partnered with <a href="/UCD_Wildlife/">Lab of  Wildlife Ecology & Behaviour</a> + <a href="/ReWildWicklow/">ReWild Wicklow</a>  deploying 150 cameras, collecting ~400,000 photos, and ~31 years worth of survey effort.  

2024's highlights below! 🧵👇
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It’s that time of year when we need to remember the core message of what Christmas really means: human rights, collective empowerment and social justice!! Merry Christmas to all our members, allies and supporters and here's to building an Ireland for all Disabled People.

It’s that time of year when we need to remember the core message of what Christmas really means: human rights, collective empowerment and social justice!!

Merry Christmas to all our members, allies and supporters and here's to building an Ireland for all Disabled People.
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Seven in 10 Irish voters want government funding of greyhound racing to be scrapped irishexaminer.com/news/arid-4151… #Ireland #DefundGreyhoundRacing

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Really thought-provoking, must read piece from Eoghan Daltun 🌍 How to strike the balance between the rights of ecosystems as a whole and individual animal/species rights in the context of non-native invasive species harm to native ecosystems? irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/1…

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An excellent article touching on all of the failures to realise a meaningful inclusion of disabled people as citizens and participants in the success of an enlightened nation when such a state arrives in Ireland.

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Push With Confidence, Defend with Confidence, learn real self defence. For information on the DL Wheelchair Self Defence Course. Email: [email protected]

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Excellent! More articles and reasoned voicesare important spokes-people in our movement for change. Like This and Rosaleen McDonagha's piece in The Journal. Sinéad Burke: ‘We need greater ambition around the positioning and value of disabled people’ irishtimes.com/life-style/peo… it's

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At greyhound races in Ireland in 2024, 389 greyhounds suffered injuries and 202 were killed • It's time for a ban on greyhound racing in Ireland banbloodsports.wordpress.com/2025/02/18/rac… Micheál Martin Simon Harris TD #Ireland #AnimalCruelty #BanGreyhoundRacing