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Joanne O'Riordan, one of seven currently living people born with the condition Tetra-amelia syndrome, is from Millstreet, County Cork, Ireland. She has successfully taken on Taoiseach Enda Kenny, addressed the United Nations and discussed technology with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Apple.〔 She has been named Cork Person of the Month and Young Person of the Year at the People of the Year Awards. ==Life== After developing "a random obsession" with Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny, she took the morning off school during her Junior Certificate mock examinations and met the future Taoiseach as he campaigned in Millstreet ahead of the 2011 general election. Their meeting was filmed for television, with Kenny vowing he would not reduce disability funding if elected. O'Riordan later remarked, "I thought he was honest. He looked like someone who wasn't going to tell a lie."〔 Upon election he cut disability funding and O'Riordan wrote a letter expressing her disappointment.〔 Her public confrontation with Enda Kenny over his spending cuts to disability funding contributed to O'Riordan's rise to fame; the government later changed its mind. An invitation to appear on ''The Late Late Show'', the world's longest running chat show, followed. This brought her even further to public attention. Not many knew of her before this but, ahead of her second appearance on the programme in June 2012, ''The Irish Times'' described O'Riordan as "one of the guests on the show in recent years who has made the most impact on viewers". In April 2012, O'Riordan spoke before the United Nations in New York City, giving an address on the use of technology and challenging those present to build a robot for her to use. A standing ovation followed. Her brother Steven is making a film of her life, titled ''No Limbs No Limits''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joanne O'Riordan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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