Philip J Connolly
The beautiful game just got more beautiful - here's how the DRN did it! Looking back from 2025.
The beautiful game just got more beautiful - here's how the DRN did it!
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Martine Waltier
- Jan 4
- 2 min
We have a new anthem
This year we reveal an anthem for the resilient, a song to unite us all.
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Philip J Connolly
- Nov 1, 2022
- 4 min
Disabled people and the General Election
It is still up to two years to the general election so why act now? In a word - timing.
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Philip J Connolly
- Sep 26, 2022
- 3 min
The Bluffers Guide to Obtaining Old and New Resources
Most NGOs have two arms to them. The first is the one that established them as providers of information, advice and guidance, possibly...
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Philip J Connolly
- Aug 18, 2022
- 3 min
Disability, Self-Sufficiency and Mutualism
Ok, so you've signed a petition, been on a march, added your details to the sum of evidence and yet still been ignored. What’s left?...
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Philip J Connolly
- Jul 14, 2022
- 3 min
Air Pollution is Making More of us Disabled
Dr Dean Schraufnagel of Illinois University has led a review of 70,000 scientific studies and concluded that every organ of the body is...
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Philip J Connolly
- Jun 20, 2022
- 3 min
New Energy for the Unity Plan
If the disability sector is to advance then it will need to find new energy but where is this energy going to come from?
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Philip J Connolly
- May 5, 2022
- 3 min
The Unity Plan: how the DRN builds an inclusive economy with you
2000 people have connected with the Disability Resilience Network - the DRN. It is our hope that you can be connected too!
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Philip J Connolly
- Apr 25, 2022
- 4 min
"To the metaverse and back to the universe"
Your invitation to join the DRN purple trade mission and secure your place at our exhibition
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Philip J Connolly
- Apr 10, 2022
- 3 min
Rethink on Barriers
Of course there are barriers and they are in the main real and even hazardous. But! But have barriers been overthought? For decades the word
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Philip J Connolly
- Mar 31, 2022
- 3 min
"Touchyfeely": enabling disabled people to create markets that in turn employ them
Enabling disabled people to create markets that in turn employ them.
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Philip J Connolly
- Mar 21, 2022
- 4 min
Semiotics of Disability
Semiotics is the study of anything that communicates something. The anything is regarded as a sign and the something is its meaning....
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Philip J Connolly
- Mar 7, 2022
- 4 min
Positively Disruptive Leadership
Finding leaders isn't difficult once people know what leadership isn't.
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Nigel Niles
- Feb 28, 2022
- 3 min
Preparing for Our Demise
It is a bit strange that on the eve of building something new and important, that we should even be thinking of “demise”.
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Philip J Connolly
- Feb 21, 2022
- 3 min
Mass Membership: feedback on our scenario planning
We will become the biggest network for disabled people and those with a long-term health condition because you decided to join us.
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Philip J Connolly
- Feb 7, 2022
- 3 min
"Creating our Own Weather" DRN's theory of change
Rainforests occupy only 6% of the earth's surface but 50% of the world's animals live there. Why? Its because rainforests create their...
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Philip J Connolly
- Jan 31, 2022
- 4 min
The Purple (Disability) Planet: The DRN Invitation and Challenge to the BBC
David Attenborough was once asked, what gave him hope. He replied "the indomitable spirit of humans and the resilience of nature."
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Philip J Connolly
- Jan 24, 2022
- 4 min
Mission Ignition
The Disability Resilience Network is asking for two years of your free time, say about five hours a week.
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Philip J Connolly
- Jan 18, 2022
- 3 min
The Book of Numbers
The Disability Resilience Network seeks to capitalise on the wisdom of the crowd.
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Philip J Connolly
- Jan 10, 2022
- 3 min
The Inclusive Economy - The Disability Resilience Network (DRN) Goal
The DRN is a network and we are already welding national representation to local activism. Our evolving structure will allow us to conduct c
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