Midlands Seminar To Focus On Creating Opportunities And Choice For People With Disabilities

The seminar gets underway in Laois this morning.

Creating opportunity and choice for people with a disability is the central message at today's Active Disability Seminar in the midlands.

Keynote speaker at the Midlands Park Hotel in Portlaoise, Fergus Farrell, suffered a traumatic spinal injury in 2018.

Since then he's been focused on "taking control of his life", from running 5 marathons across 4 days, or attempting to row across the North Atlantic from New York to Galway.

Speaking to David Hollywood on Health and Fitness, he says he wants people with disabilities put themselves forward:

More from Midlands News

Download Our App