Ireland
General Country Information
Capital: Dublin
Population: 4,109,086 (July 2007)
Form of Government: Republic, Parliamentary Democracy
Telephone and Internet Communications in real numbers
Telephone- main lines: 2.033 million (2005)
Telephone- mobile: 4.21 million (2005)
Internet hosts: 238,191 (2006)
Internet users: 2.06 million (2005)
Country Ranking
DOI* 2005/2006: 0.61
World Rank 2005/2006: 31
*The Digital Opportunity Index (DOI) evaluates the opportunity, infrastructure and utilization of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) worldwide and was created by the Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity and Promotion (KADO) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The DOI is based on a scale of 0-1, where 1 is ideal, and the World Rank is taken into consideration out of 181 countries, based on the DOI.
Disability Organizations and Contact Information:
Center for Independent Living, Dublin (CIL)
no contact information currently available
Brainwave - The Irish Epilepsy Association
info@epilepsy.ie
COPE Foundation
hoadmin@cope-foundation.ie
Disability Federation of Ireland (DFI)
info@disability-federation.ie
Disabled Drivers Association of Ireland
ability@iol.ie
Headway (National Association for Acquired Brain Injury)
http://www.headway.ie/
Irish Deaf Society, (IDS), also National Association of the Deaf
info@irishdeafsociety.ie
Irish Wheelchair Association (IWA)
info@iwa.ie
National Council for the Blind of Ireland (NCBI)
info@ncbi.ie