Cork Man with Dwarfism highlights daily challenges
A Cork man has spoken out about the difficulties he's facing as a person with dwarfism in the city
David O'Sullivan says 1 in 25,000 people in Ireland have dwarfism yet recently he has noticed an increase in abusive beahvour towards him as he goes about his daily life.
On Saturday night, David was walking home over Parnell Bridge at around 10 o'clock when a group on board a passing bus, opened the emergency window on the back of the bus and verbally abused him.
He contacted the Neil Prendeville Show on Cork's RedFM to highlight the issue which is says is not an isolated incident and he went on to detail another incident which happened on the Grand Parade about two months ago:
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