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Read our media statement for #EpilepsyDay 2025, with new findings highlighting why everyone needs to learn about TIME, SAFE, STAY!

A very interesting new discovery from our colleagues in FutureNeuro could lead to a significant step forward in preventing epilepsy associated with traumatic brain injury.

If you work in DAA, please lend us your vote to become DAA Charity of the Year!

With 2024 drawing to a close, it is an opportunity to reflect on the work of our organisation and how we have progressed on our journey this year towards a society where no person’s life is limited by epilepsy. It is also an opportunity for me – on the behalf of everyone at Epilepsy Ireland - to thank each and every one of you for your continued support for our organisation’s mission and aims.

Our thoughts are with the family and friends of Colm Corrigan from Castlelyons in Cork, who passed away on the 7^th of December after a short illness.  

To honour his memory, Colm’s classmates in Coláiste An Chraoibhín, Fermoy, decided to raise money for Epilepsy Ireland on their annual school Christmas Jumper Day. We would like to thank the students and staff for finding the strength and resolve in their time of grief to help others living with epilepsy. 

Epilepsy Ireland will officially close for the festive period on the 23rd December at 3.30pm and will reopen on the 2nd January at 9am.

It’s time to brush up on your artistic activities as part of the lead up to next year’s International Epilepsy Day. 

Our colleagues in the International Bureau for Epilepsy (IBE) have once again launched a virtual art exhibition to mark the big day. 

A new research project from Dublin City University (DCU) which aims to develop a seizure-predicting dog collar has received just under half a million euro in funding from the Science Foundation Ireland Research Ireland Frontiers for the Future Programme.

To raise further awareness of epilepsy in local communities across Ireland – and to help gain public support for our key advocacy priorities – Epilepsy Ireland have written to all current Cathaoirleach (Mayors) of City/County councils, seeking that they submit a motion at upcoming council meetings to show their support for International Epilepsy Day on February 10^th.