“The idea was a metaphor for, ‘put Joanne in a home and don’t deal with it and don’t think about it because she’s a lost cause,’ basically. You have my number.”Referring to her activism, O’Riordan noted that she would like to be “one of those weird activists that wants to put myself out of work”. “(Swimmer) Ellen Keane and I were talking about that – sometimes when we see a person with a disability in the paper, it’s angry. If you hear about Ellen Keane in the media, it’s ‘Ellen Keane who is a Paralympic athlete, who has had to overcome so many hurdles’. It’s not, ‘Ellen Keane and her Olympic medals’.

Source: The Irish Times March 21, 2021 11:48 UTC