“We would love an exhibition about her life to go ahead and we like the fact that the Spike Island website carries a tribute to her.īut we find it very hard to see how the island management can, on one hand plan to host an exhibition about her life but on the other hand not put in place a fully accessible bus service.
“We have really tried hard to resolve this issue but we just aren't getting very far. “There is a large amount of irony in a venue hosting an exhibition about the life and times of a woman like Kay that isn’t actually fully accessible to people in a wheelchair,” her sister Anne told the Irish Examiner. The medal-winning disabilities rights campaigner, who died in 2019 at the age of 70, had grown up on the island and was one of its most celebrated former residents.Īfter she left, she went on to - among other things - win the London Marathon women's wheelchair race three times in a row between 19.Īs well as setting a record for consecutive wins that was unrivalled for almost 20 years, she also won bronze and silver medals in the 19 summer Paralympics.Īnybody in a wheelchair who wants to visit the island’s fort has to be pushed uphill from the pier along a 400m route which includes what the island’s website describes as 'a short sharp hill'.
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