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If you experience Focal-Onset seizures and/or have been prescribed the medication ONTOZRY® (Cenobamate), we need your help!
If you experience Focal-Onset seizures and/or have been prescribed the medication ONTOZRY® (Cenobamate), we need your help!
Epilepsy Ireland and OACS Ireland met with Department of Health officials yesterday to discuss the establishment of the long-awaited Sodium Valproate inquiry.
There was an open and honest discussion about the delays in establishing the inquiry to date and OACS Ireland conveyed the frustration families are feeling as a result.
Alongside our colleagues in OACS Ireland, we will be meeting with the Minister for Health this week to discuss the establishment of the long-awaited Sodium Valproate inquiry.
There has been a step forward on one of our major advocacy campaigns. Read more on what has happened; and what our focus turns to now.
At the beginning of the year, we trialled a new online event on mindfulness for people with epilepsy and family members of a person with epilepsy. The online event is led by our Community Resource Officer, Cliona Molloy.
The establishment of an inquiry into the historical licensing and prescribing of Sodium Valproate continues to be raise in the Dáil.
We are continuing to campaign for families affected by Sodium Valproate (Epilim). Read our latest news update.
This week is National Volunteering Week - a week in which we celebrate the incredible work which is done by volunteers across Ireland.
At Epilepsy Ireland, we depend on the support of our wonderful volunteers across the length and breadth of the country – to help us raise the vital funds required to continue our work towards a society where no person’s life is limited by epilepsy; and to help raise awareness of a condition which affects 40,000 people across Ireland today.
Today is International Nurses Day and is a day in which the work of nurses across the world is acknowledged and celebrated.
Epilepsy Nurse Specialists play a vital role in supporting people with epilepsy across Ireland and on this special day, we would like to thank them for their incredible work.
At a recent virtual event, the updated ‘Sláinte agus Tiomáint’ - Medical Fitness to Drive Guidelines were published by the Road Safety Authority (RSA).