Peadar is a disabled activist (visually impaired since birth) with an MA in Disability Studies from the University Of Leeds and has created a Disabled People’s Organisation (DPO) in Leeds, and also in his home country of the Republic Of Ireland. He has experience working with the UNCRPD committee and the European Network On Independent Living (ENIL) and has delivered training on the UN 2030 Agenda (SDG’s) in Strasbourg, and has written a paper for ENIL about the SDG’s connection to the UNCRPD. He is currently serving as the Policy Officer for Disability Power Ireland (DPI) a newly established DPO and additionally is a part-time tutor at Maynooth University on the disability studies level 7 programme. In his free time, he likes to write and read fiction and has published a short story through the UK group Disability Arts Online (DAO) and study literary and social history.