If you have already made a donation to Buy My Dress, many thanks for your support and be sure to make 11th June a date in your diary.

However, if it's something you have been meaning to do but haven't got around to it as yet, can I ask that you drop off your dress to any Peter ...

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Senators (from left) Deirdre de Burca, Fiona O'Malley, Geraldine Feeney and Ivana Bacik put their best feet forward outside Leinster House yesterday as they modelled the dresses they are donating to the 'Buy My Dress' sale in aid of Down Syndrome Centre.

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We are looking forward to next Thursday when we will be in Mullingar for the first Early Development seminar with Ann Haig Wheeler.

The venue is the Mullingar Park Hotel with morning session information relevant to parents/carers of children from the ages of 0 - 3 and following that, the afternoon session will address issues relating to older children within ...

We are looking for people to help out with Buy My Dress on Thursday 11th June. Would you have four hours to spare to be a 'Pinny Woman'?

We are operating three shifts throughout the day

Morning 9.30 to 1.30

Afternoon 1.00 - 5.30

Evening 5.00 - 9.00

We are hoping to have 20 people working ...

Many people have been looking for a sneak preview of the dresses which have been donated for our Buy My Dress event on 11th June.  

Everyday from now until 11th June we will be featuring a "Dress of the Day" on our twitter account www.twitter.com/buymydressevent and for those who are on top of their tweets, just yet ...

Lately the DSC has developed its own Twitter account (www.twitter.com/downsyndromecen) from where we are managing to gather a whole new audience for the advisory blogs and the information this website provides. Many of these people are connecting to us from overseas and providing us with messages (in not more than 160 characters) of encouragement for the weekly ...

We're reminded of that old adage 'The steam that makes the whistle blow doesn't make the engine go" in relation to news that Sequenom the US diagnostic testing and genetic analysis company is being sued by investors after its stock price fell 75% on news that there had been 'mis-handling' of the results of their first round trials ...

RTE's Fair City actors - Sorcha Furlong, Gemma Doorly and Clelia Murphy - got into some pictures last week with little Katie Fitzpatrick - age 5 - from Goatstown, to help us publicise Buy My Dress.

So far ten of the female crew of Fair City have given us dresses - many of which were worn to the recent TV Now Awards. The list ...