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Minette Marrin, please shut up.
Special needs is a loaded term. It brings some fluffy connotations of cute, lovable and unchallenging kids, but for the most part it is an incredibly broad definition that encompasses pain, anxiety an… more →
Our Jacob
Minette Marrin, please shut up.
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Nick McGivney wrote 4 days ago: Special needs is a loaded term. It brings some fluffy connotations of cute, lovable and unchallengin … more →
I must be an idiot
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Nick McGivney wrote 1 month ago: The results aren’t final yet, but I’m beginning to suspect that I might be. Jacob’ … more →
Lowering expectations. Raising hopes.
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Nick McGivney wrote 3 months ago: Lookid here now, Mrs Old Enough To Know Better. I know that Our Jacob has Down syndrome. I have a ba … more →
"It's better not to exist and give damages for having to exist"
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Nick McGivney wrote 5 months ago: My very good friend Caley brought a story from the US to my attention today. It concerns Deborah and … more →
A time of crisis
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Nick McGivney wrote 6 months ago: View This Pollopinion I’ve come to regard Our Jacob as a place where serious things sometimes … more →
A winter eviction for Travellers with twin Down syndrome infants
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Nick McGivney wrote 10 months ago: From the Irish Times, Thursday 29th Jan: LOCAL AUTHORITIES in Waterford last night evicted a couple … more →
'My first reaction: what did I do wrong?'
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Nick McGivney wrote 11 months ago: I’ve been watching Scrubs for so long now that I think Perry Cox is real. His snippy, smartars … more →
Another idiot with a column
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Nick McGivney wrote 11 months ago: There we were, meself and the youngest the other day. Reading. And who should we chance upon but the … more →
The battlefield of love
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Nick McGivney wrote 1 year ago: I came across this website post this morning.* This kind of stuff doesn’t usually get under my … more →
Seriously. You are guaranteed an Oscar if you play a mental.
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Nick McGivney wrote 1 year ago: Let’s have a heated debate! Opening salvo in the Irish media on Tropic Thunder. I spoke to New … more →
Taking this retarded fight to the national airwaves
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Nick McGivney wrote 1 year ago: Tomorrow morning between nine and eleven, national Irish broadcaster Newstalk 106 will debate the up … more →
Been there, done that...
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Nick McGivney wrote 1 year ago: This is the taste of mini-victory, troops. Our friends at CafePress, having made the egregious but s … more →
Never go full retard
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Nick McGivney wrote 1 year ago: Sept 19 sees the Irish release of Tropic Thunder, starring Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr … more →
Death before disability!
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Nick McGivney wrote 1 year ago: So. Take an average 100 US citizens aged between 35 and 44. Ask them which would they choose: death … more →
So you think you're normal
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Nick McGivney wrote 1 year ago: If I am to hold with one definition by the Merriam-Webster dictionary, then normal means ‘occu … more →
I am angered
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Nick McGivney wrote 1 year ago: It is late at night and I am tired. Never a good idea to try to rationalise your anger when you … more →
'God has a knack for choosing great parents'
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Nick McGivney wrote 1 year ago: Anyone who has a kid with Downs will tell you that they hear some pretty outstanding things, and sur … more →
