Latest news bites for May

21 May

Latest news bites for May

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There are 5 days to go until World MS Day 2015 May 27th and the MS community is building momentum with the call ‘Together we’re stronger than MS’. This is a great slogan, representing people with MS, their families, the whole MS community, MS Ireland and everyone, working together to be #strongerthanMS.

Ireland’s women’s rugby stars Ailis Egan, Hannah Tyrrell and Jenny Murphy have pledged their support to World MS Day, with the team players championing the #strongerthanMS campaign. MS Ireland, the national organisation providing vital services, information and support to the MS community is urging people to please text STRONG to 50300 and donate 4 euro or visit www.strongerthanMS.ie. *

Multiple sclerosis is the most common disabling neurological condition of young adults in Ireland, with more than 8,000 Irish people affected. MS is most commonly diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 40 with a huge impact on lifestyle, family, work and overall quality of life. Three times more women than men are diagnosed with MS. There is currently no known cause or cure for the condition.

Ava Battles, Chief Executive, MS Ireland comments: “World MS Day is a key event for people with MS in Ireland and around the globe. Together we need to raise funds that will directly improve services provision locally, in particular, physiotherapy, counselling, the MS Nurse resource and respite at the national MS Care Centre. Our ‘Together we’re stronger than MS’ campaign is about the MS community, joined by MS Ireland, working together nationally and locally, to manage the consequences of living with MS, including impaired mobility, severe fatigue, cognitive difficulties, decisions around employment, and the effect on family life. Together we are stronger, in our bid to ensure equal access to everything that impacts on quality of life for people with MS.”

There are many layers behind the ‘Together we’re stronger than MS’ campaign beginning first with the people with multiple sclerosis who make up the MS community, who are pillars of strength as they manage MS day to day.

Hedgerow Garlands has launched some really beautiful and unique flower chandeliers, wall garlands and table centrepieces in an exquisite fusion of rustic and baroque styles. Vintage glass and porcelain flowers and birds, beads, millinery flowers, glass-sugar berries, feathers and grapes and Victorial epergnes feature in the eyecatching designs, alongsidehand-painted silk, cotton, mulberry paper, and velvet. Illuminated by tiny soft-white L.E.D’s, the chandeliers also feature items from the artist’s garden and surrounding hedgerows to include everlasting organic materials such as honeysuckle-vine, alder catkins, willow, rugosa and poppy seed-heads. Artist Maria-Aida Austin collects her innovative materials from a wide variety of sources. From bric-a brac, second-hand andvintage shops: vintage glass and porcelain flowers and birds, beads, millinery flowers, glass-sugar berries, stamens, feathers, rubberized and glass grapes, Victorian epergnes. From the high street and online: silk, cotton, mulberry-paper and velvet flowers, mainly in white. Each one is hand-painted with water-colour and fabric paint using a soft colour-palette to give the flowers the kind of depth and anomaly that is found in nature.

The 2015 MONOPOLY WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS have just been announced and Hasbro is on the look out for the UK and Ireland’s Best Monopoly Player with regional heats taking place for the 2015 MONOPOLY World Championships across the UK and Ireland. MONOPOLY fans will have the chance to compete for a spot in the UK and Ireland final at The View From the Shard, with the winner traveling to Macau for the world final. A specially designed double-decker bus, fitted with ten MONOPOLY tables, is visiting 12 locations starting in Belfast on Saturday 30th May.

In honour of the 80th Anniversary of MONOPOLY, each regional event will play host to 80 adult and 80 junior competitors across four heats. The winners from each heat will go through to the regional final later that day, before two winners are crowned (one from the adult pool and one from the junior pool). Winners from each regional final will make it through to the UK and Ireland final on Sunday 19th July.

Pic:Naoise Culhane

There will be half price fish & chips in Irish Traditional Italian Chippers around the country on Wednesday May 27th. National Fish & Chip Day launched celebrating 130 years of the Irish Italian tradition of a ‘one and one’.

Peter Borza, Chairman, ITICA, commented: “130 years later and the Irish Italian tradition of a ‘one and one’ is still going strong! ITICA National Fish & Chips Day continues to grow in popularity with members reporting longer queues each year. It’s a great opportunity for us to highlight our heritage and importantly, thank our local communities for their on-going support and custom. We look forward to another busy, but fun day on Wednesday 27th May and would remind people to look out for the ITICA logo when joining the celebrations!”

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