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Participants wanted – investigating the role of self-perceptions in adjustment to multiple sclerosis. 

MS Ireland has become aware that some people with MS have been affected by the recent decision by the HSE to withdraw reimbursement of Versatis medicated plasters for all conditions besides the licensed indication, which is post-shingles pain. Some people with MS have been prescribed this treatment for neuropathic pain. 

Do you have a bucket list? This week for her first blog, Rosie McCormack writes about hers and how she dealt with all the holes in her bucket list post-diagnosis. 

Twenty-nine Irish charities receive donations from The Hospital Saturday Fund

MS Ireland has made a Patient Group Submission to the National Centre for Pharmaco-economics regarding Ocrevus (ocrelizumab) 

This week, Emma Rogan is reminiscing about mornings in a cold drafty boarding school in the Midlands. Read on for her take on the next forty days and forty nights.

Get your glad rags on for an amazing cause. It’s going to be Frockin’ Fabulous Darlings!!

This week Declan Groeger considers what it means to have help in the home. It’s never as simple as it sounds and when it comes to services for people with MS in Ireland, things are really very complex. 

Save the Date! 

Last week, President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, honoured the recipients of the 'Science Foundation Ireland President of Ireland Future Research Leaders Award' at a special ceremony in Áras an Uachtaráin in Dublin. Five awards, representing a €7 million investment, will also support the additional recruitment of 15 research positions. Research supported by the awards will examine novel drug targeting for the treatment of various diseases.