A childhood full of broken bonesSTEPHEN Ryan has had more than 50 bone breakages in his lifetime, due to a relatively rare condition called osteogenesis imperfecta. “But in the 1980s, I had to attend what was then called the Cork Spastic Clinic. However, his teachers told his parents that he needed to go to mainstream school as he was being held back in the Cork Spastic Clinic. But there used to be a van transporting us with Cork Spastic Clinic written on it. He says that when he was a child, the staff at the Cork Spastic Clinic believed in him and encouraged him.

Source: Evening echo October 29, 2018 10:30 UTC