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Disability, Diversity and Identity in Ireland’s Elections 2024
The first Irish study of disabled political candidates has identified financial costs and difficulty canvassing as among the many systemic barriers facing disabled candidates who wish to participate in political life in Ireland. The research focused on the experiences of disabled candidates who identified as holding intersecting identities and stood in the Irish local and European elections in 2024. It was conducted by researchers at the Centre for Disability Law and Policy, University of Galway and Trinity College Dublin. The research was funded under the National Disability Authority Research Promotion Scheme.
The qualitative research involved in-depth interviews with seven disabled political candidates with intersecting identities, and representatives from eight organisations representing migrant, LGBTQ+ and Traveller communities, disabled people’s organisations, and education and training organisations.
The full report, ‘Disability, Diversity and Identity in Ireland’s Local and European Elections 2024’, can be read here as a PDF or here as a MS Word Document.
An Easy-to-Read version of the research report is available here as a PDF.
The recording for the recent Report launch is now available.
The slides from the recent webinar are available here NDA project report launch slides
There are two version of the video available to watch the Webinar back.
- Version with Captions, Slides and partial sign language, please click hereor use the following link https://youtu.be/l-fd91dEFYQ
- Version with sign language only, please click hereor use the following link https://youtu.be/-z6imfMHgBU
