Includes Parents Support, parents of gay children who support other parents and OutYouth a Dublin based lesbian and gay youth group. The Irish Association was founded in January 1999. The IGA provides information on the condition, campaigns on behalf of Glaucoma patients and funds research into the battle against glaucoma blindness. Tel 01 8392796. Visits to patients can be arranged and details provided re membership of the group.
Web Site gives details of literature available and UK helpline.
This organisation had its inaugural meeting in late 1995 at the Mater Hospital in Dublin. It aims to raise awareness of this condition that affects one in 300 Irish citizens. Haemochromatosis was first described by Troisier, was then termed 'bronze diabetes' by Hanot, but received its current title from von Recklinghausen. Like Cystic Fibrosis, it generally shows an autosomal recessive pattern of inheritance, and one in ten Irish people carries its recessive gene. It usually confers lifelong excessive absorption of iron from the gut, leaving heavy deposits in vital organs.