CHRONOLOGICAL TIME SCALE OF EVENTS LEADING TO REALISATION OF L.A.P.W.D.

By Sr. Emmanuel Farrelly

1. INITIAL OPEN MEETING 8th May 1996

In order to achieve the aim on which this project embarked the first step necessary was the recruitment of the support of a group of like minded people. To this end all people with disabilities in County Leitrim for whom addresses were known were invited to an initial Open Meeting. Addresses were available through the register of elections of the Council for the Status of People with Disabilities, through personal contacts and through some voluntary Organisations.
This meeting was held on the 8th May, 1996. Mr Martin Naughton, well known National Disability Activist, gave the keynote address. Over seventy people were in attendance. The N.R.B. advisor was present in a supporting capacity.

A train of events was set in motion.