Deaf Women Sings On Ireland's Got Talent

Deaf signing choir leaves judges speechless on Ireland's Got Talent.

DUBIN, Ireland -- A choir with seven Deaf members and two Hearing singers are set to wow the audience and judges on Ireland's Got Talent this weekend.

The Deaftones are a choir from Holy Family School of the Deaf in Dublin and among the members are three sisters, two of whom are Deaf and one who is the only hearing member of her family.

They tackle Ed Sheeran's Photograph on the show with the two hearing girls singing and the eleven Deaf members signing.

The group range in age from 13-39 years old and they experience music in a variety of different ways, including sensing sound through vibrations and lip reading.

"They all hear music in different ways," explains their teacher Shirley Higgins. "Some of them hear the music and the words, some of them hear just the music, and some of them hear nothing at all."

Deaf Choir Deaftones performs John Lennon´s "Imagine" - Semi-Final 2.

The choir began seven years ago and recently brought the two hearing members on board, because "we wanted to show how hearing and Deaf communities can mix, how they live in two worlds and how they can be the same as anyone else."

Judges Denise Van Outen and Louis Walsh are particularly affected by the performance.

Ireland’s Got Talent airs on Saturday 17th February at 7.30pm, followed by Ireland’s Got Mór Talent at 8.30pm on the Ireland’s Got Talent from TV3.

SOURCE - Independent

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Irish Deaf Man Stalked & Harassed Doctor's Wife

An Irish Deaf man who exposed himself to woman he stalked allegedly infringes bail after appearing at victim’s kids’ school, court hears.

DUNGLOE, Ireland -- The Irish Sun: A Deaf man who previously admitted standing naked in his front room when the local doctor’s wife passed by infringed his bail conditions, a judge was told today.

Judge Paul Kelly was told John McGrotty, 66, drove his car in front of Eimear McEniff and drove slowly and on another occasion he walked out in front of her car.

Last week he was at the school attended by the McEniff children.

In May, he was told by the court to leave Donegal and live with his sister in Dublin.

Garda Eamonn McGroarty said that Mrs McEniff was very concerned about McGrotty’s behaviour.

Defence solicitor Patsy Gallagher said his understanding since the case was adjourned last October for updated reports was that all matters were going well.

Judge Kelly said at Dungloe District Court: “That’s what I thought. I want to get to the bottom of this.”

He acknowledged much work had been done by agencies, including the Probation service which conducted five three-hour-long sessions with McGrotty of St Peter’s Tce, Chapel Rd, Dungloe.

He said: “Truly enormous work has been done. That is why this is disturbing.”

McGrotty admitted harassing and stalking Dara and Eimear McEniff and their family at Pairc Naomh Anna, Chapel Rd, Dungloe, between July 7, 2014 and December 11, 2014.

He also admitted harassing and stalking Eimear McEniff at St Peter’s Tce, Dungloe, between August 1, 2013, and July 24, 2014.

Earlier hearings in Dungloe and Letterkenny courts heard how Eimear, wife of Dr Dara McEniff, lived an ongoing nightmare in her terror of the stalker.

She said that at one stage she saw him standing naked in his front room as she passed his house going to and from her own.

As he adjourned the case, judge Kelly observed: “What I have just heard is a series of allegations. There may or may not be an innocent explanation. If not that is an entirely different matter.“

SOURCE - The Irish Sun

Guinness Pint Helps To Prevent Hearing Loss

The study found that the high levels of iron in the Irish drink can do wonders for our sense of hearing.

DUBLIN, Ireland -- A pint of Guinness a day can help prevent people from going Deaf, scientists believe.

The Black Stuff contains high levels of iron, which experts believe helps to ward off hearing loss.

Leafy green vegetables, brown rice and some types of meat are also thought to be of benefit, according to a major new study.

An examination of more than 300,000 people found a link between iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) and hearing loss.

Pennsylvania State University researchers found a lack of the mineral can cause sensorinerual hearing loss, or damage to the cochlea or nerve pathways.

Study author Kathleen Schieffer said: “An association exists between IDA in adults and hearing loss.

“The next steps are to better understand this correlation and whether promptly diagnosing and treating IDA may positively affect the overall health status of adults with hearing loss.”

A further analysis confirmed the increased odds of both forms of hearing loss among patients with IDA, the study published in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery found.

Iron deficiency anaemia is a condition where a lack of iron in the body leads to a reduction in the number of red blood cells.

It is believed to be very common, especially among women.

Guinness was famously marketed as a healthy pint in the 1920s under the slogan, ‘Guinness is good for you’.

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In England, post operative patients used to be given a pint because of its high iron content.

In addition, it may also work as a low dose of aspirin to prevent heart attacks.

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin made the discovery earlier this year.

The Wisconsin scientists gave Guinness to dogs who had narrowed arteries.

They found the Guinness worked as well as aspirin in preventing clots forming.

The researchers told a convention of the American Heart Association in Orlando, Florida, that a pint of Guinness taken at meal time had the best impact.

It is believed antioxidant compounds in the drink, similar to those found in certain fruits and vegetables, are responsible for the health benefits because they slow down the deposit of harmful cholesterol on the artery walls.

SOURCE - The Irish Sun

Deaf Woman Allegedly Raped By Two Irish Men

Profoundly Deaf woman allegedly raped by two men in caravan through a social media site in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

BELFAST -- A profoundly Deaf woman was allegedly raped by two men in a caravan after arranging a meeting over social media, a court heard today.

Police claimed one of the pair had manipulated and coerced her into getting a taxi to the traveller site in west Belfast. The woman has also alleged her drink may have been spiked during the incident on the Glen Road early last Friday.

David Spence, 18, and Francis Gavin, 23, appeared before magistrates in the city accused of carrying out the sex attack. Both men deny charges of rape, insisting all contact with the woman in her thirties was consensual.

Spence, a trainee joiner from Ardcaoin Avenue in the Dunmurry area, was granted bail on conditions that include a ban on accessing computers. But Gavin, of Glen Road Heights in Belfast, remains in custody while checks are carried out on proposed addresses.

A judge was told the woman had been in contact with Spence through a social media site before a meeting was arranged. Describing her as vulnerable, an investigating detective said she made it clear that she was not interested in having sex at the encounter.

The officer claimed Spence had ignored requests to come to her house, instead arranging for a taxi to bring her to the Glen Road traveller encampment. Following the alleged attack he said she left the caravan and walked a quarter of a mile down a lane in the dark before reporting the incident at the first house with lights on.

Defence barrister Tom McCreanor, for Spence, put it to the officer that his client and the woman had "intimate and suggestive" social media exchanges before meeting.

The detective replied: "She does mention she likes sex. However, she is saying that's within a long-term relationship." Photographs were also sent between her and Spence, the court heard. Asked if the woman's vulnerability related to a hearing issue, the officer said: "This lady is profoundly Deaf."

He also claimed: "From the content of text messages there was bit of manipulation or coercion." But Mr McCreanor argued that his client had been in "consensual and encouraged communication" with the woman.

He told the court she willingly got a taxi to the caravan and was never prevented from leaving.

Granting bail for Spence to return to court in four weeks, District Judge Fiona Bagnall ordered him to live with his parents under curfew. He was banned from using mobile phones, computers and accessing social media sites, and must not go near either the alleged victim's home or the traveller site.

Gavin also faces unrelated charges of common assault, criminal damage to a window and possession of a knuckle duster over an incident on January 25.

Defence solicitor Eamon O'Connor stressed his client is not accused of making any of the arrangements to meet the alleged rape victim.

"He was at the site when the alleged injured party arrived," Mr O'Connor said. "He made the case in ten interviews that any contact between himself and this lady was entirely by consent."

During cross-examination the detective confirmed the woman claimed her drink may have been spiked. Forensic tests are still being carried out to establish if there is any substance to her concerns. But with police claiming Gavin has used six addresses in the last five years, his bail application was adjourned for further checks on where he might live if released.

SOURCE - BELFASTLIVE

Irish Deaf Archives: 3 Deaf Prostitutes

Irish Deaf Archives: Documentary Film - 3 Deaf Prostitutes.

A story about the research in Deaf history of Ireland about the 3 women Mary Anne Canavan, Mary Anne Dogherty and Agnes Beedam, who were all prostitutes. Film by Mind the Gap Productions.

Two Dominican Sisters, Sr. M Vincent Martin OP, and Sr Magdalen O'Farrell, OP and their first pupils Agnes Beedam and Mary Anne Dogherty set sail for Le Bon Sauveur School for the Deaf in Caen, France. The school opens with fifteen pupils who are admitted to the 'Cottage Parlour', a room in a building owned by the Dominican Sisters in Cabra.

St Mary's School for Deaf Girls was founded in 1846 in the grounds of the Dominican Convent, Cabra, Dublin, the beginnings from the first two pupils, Agnes Beedam and Mary Anne Dogherty and is under the trusteeship of the Catholic Institute for the Deaf.

Hands On is the programme for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing communities in Ireland, presented in Irish Sign Language.

We have a strong team of presenters, Senan Dunne, is also an associate producer on the programme and works along with our regular presenters, Sarah Jane Moloney, Caroline Worthington, Eddie Redmond, Caroline Mc Grotty, Seán Herlihy, Alvean Jones, Julianne Gillen, and Teresa Lynch.

Hands On covers a broad range of issues relevant to the Deaf Community from Education, Health, Current Affairs, Sport, Equality and some investigative reporting.

Sources:
mindthegapfilms.com
youtube.com/HandsOn3
rte.ie/tv/handson

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Deaf Man Accused of Killing Man at Bus Stop

Deaf man remanded in custody accused of killing man at bus stop.

DUBLIN, Ireland -- A Deaf man charged with killing a man who died after he was hit by a bus in Dublin city centre has been held in custody for another week.

Eoghan Dudley (28), who was originally from Rathfarnham in the city's south side, suffered horrific head injuries after he fell under a double-decker bus following an altercation at the junction of Dawson Street and Nassau Street on December 6.

The deceased man had recently been living in rented accommodation in Co Wicklow and was identified two days after his death.

On Friday last, which was also his 29th birthday, Edward Connors, whose latest address was a hostel in the city-centre's north side, was arrested in connection with the incident and detained at Pearse Street Garda station.

When charged at the station last Saturday night he had replied “I am sorry about him, it was an accident”. He did not apply for bail and had been remanded in custody at Dublin District Court last Monday. Connors is accused of manslaughter of Mr Dudley at Dawson Street... Read The Full Story.

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Deaf man charged with manslaughter of bus crash victim 'very sorry.'

DUBLIN, Ireland -- A Deaf man has apologised for the death of a man who was hit by a bus following an alleged roadside altercation.

Edward Connors, who is profoundly Deaf, has been charged with the manslaughter of Eoghan Dudley. The 28-year-old died last Thursday evening after suffering severe head injuries in the incident in Dublin city centre.

Connors, 29, who has been living in a homeless hostel in Dublin, was brought before the city’s District Court where proceedings were translated through a sign language interpreter.

Detective Garda Conor O’Braonain told the court that, when Connors was charged at Pearse Street Garda Station on Saturday night, he replied: “I’m very sorry about him. It was an accident.”

Judge David McHugh remanded him in custody until December 13, when he will be brought before Cloverhill courthouse.

Connors, who wore a navy tracksuit, is accused of killing Mr Dudley at the busy junction of Dawson Street and Nassau Street... Read The Full Story.