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Leader of the Social Democrats. TD for West Cork. Farmer. Scientist. Feminist. 🌱 @SocDems
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I had to google “TikTok”. 🙈
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I’m excited to announce that I am putting myself forward to be the next leader of the Social Democrats.
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A member of the IGB has challenged my personality and pointed out my gender. Referring to me as an “ignorant little girl”.
He hasn’t challenged any of the facts I have raised about the Greyhound Industry.
So I have invited him to have a debate👇RTÉ have kindly offered to host.
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Thousands of images and videos, mainly of Irish women, and including underage girls, are being maliciously shared without consent on online forums and in private messaging groups.
I am calling on the Minister for Justice to act now to protect victims.
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Some bigger than usual news to kick off this week’s update - I can’t quite believe I’m typing this but on Wednesday, I will be taking on the role of leader of the Social Democrats.
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From today, women in Ireland effectively work for free for the remainder of the year.
The gender pay gap is currently 14.4%.
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I celebrated
#WorldOceansDay
on the
#WestCork
coast today. I have no words, so you have to watch. 🐳
@atlanticwhales
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In my defence, you’d forget you’re being filmed on a radio program.
When a Government TD attempts to misrepresent the reality of the Mother & Baby homes redress scheme. 🤦♀️
@HollyCairnsTD
does not have a good poker face 👇🙄
#StateOfShame
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It’s hard to believe that this incredible, brave woman had to go through the courts for this.
Lynsey Bennett focusing on 'fight to stay alive' after settling her case against the HSE over the reading of her cervical smear tests | Read more:
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It might look like I’ve photoshopped antlers onto my election poster picture, but this is actually the original photograph. We had to get the antlers photoshopped OFF for the poster 😂.
#NewProfilePic
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We must do whatever we can to stop the massacre in Palestine.
That means using every means we have to exert whatever influence we can.
I asked the Taoiseach to request the suspension of Israel’s trade deal with the EU, on the basis of the human rights clause in the agreement.
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Today, three things FG and FF told us were impossible were achieved: a single-tier health service, rent freezes and the first signs of income support-It has taken global tragedy for people to see the true value of a society that puts people first.
#SocialDemocracyWorksForEveryone
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Sick to my stomach that the State has let so many down again. We will keep fighting for justice.
#Stand4Truth
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The writing is on the wall for this government, even the Taoiseach can see that.
They’re failing on so many fronts. In housing, health, climate - the list goes on and on and on.
A new Fine Gael Taoiseach isn’t going to fix that. We need a new government. We need an election.
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Ireland’s history of using shame and fear to control women and their bodies is truly horrifying in its scale and impact.
State and religious officials and bodies carried out these crimes. They profited from horrendous cruelty and systemic abuse.
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As of the weekend just gone, Róisin Shortall TD is the longest serving female TD in the history of Dáil Éireann.
What a legend.
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DEFUND THE GREYHOUND RACING INDUSTRY
On Wed the SDs will put forward a Motion.
Calling on the Government to:
💶Reverse the €2.4 mil increase in funding for the industry in 2021
🐾Increase funding for the welfare of greyhounds
🙌Phase out state funding for the industry
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On my first day as a County councillor, I watched a colleague congratulating newly elected reps on having great campaigns etc. He got to me, patted me on the shoulder and said, “Well done, you look great.”
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We have record rents, record house prices, record levels of homelessness and record numbers of people in their 20s and 30s living in their childhood bedrooms.
Tonight I will be voting no confidence in the Housing Minister and the government's housing policy.
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One of the most basic requirements of a functioning society is the provision of secure and affordable housing.
Housing is supposedly the biggest priority for the government.
And yet it is its biggest failure.
The decision to end the eviction ban is indefensible.
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I don't particularly like speaking out about this but it needs to be acknowledged to be addressed.
And it is essential it is addressed if we want more people to go into politics.
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The Government has just voted down the
@SocDems
motion calling for sanctions on Israel.
The slaughter of innocent civilians in Gaza will not end without international pressure.
Despite the overwhelming support of the Irish people, this Government has chosen not to act.
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👇
Pregnant Woman To Deliver Child Indoors In Pub So Partner Can Attend Birth
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I think and hope the public will do the opposite🤞.
Former justice minister Nora Owen said Helen McEntee will face criticism from the public for taking leave, despite being entitled to take time to take care of her child.
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I got to meet Joe Biden yesterday before he addressed both houses of the Oireachtas He was very friendly and told me that he was first elected at age 29, too.
The whole day was a really nice occasion and a great way to highlight Ireland's close ties with America.
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We desperately need more women at the decision making tables.
#MoreMn
á
@SarahAMcInerney
"Another abiding, for me, image of this lockdown has been men at podiums."
@SarahAMcInerney
speaks about women being disproportionally affected by the lockdown.
#LateLate
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Some of you have probably heard about a website publishing Tweets I posted 8 years ago in which I was critical of the Pope. Since then, I’ve had a lot of messages of support and a lot of very abusive, nasty ones too.
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The unfortunate reality is I wasn’t deeply hurt or offended, because I am used to this kind of sexism.
I may not have taken personal offence, but in reality this offends all women. Too many women are subject to this type of belittling and it needs to be called out.
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We all agree on the need for more forestry but this is not the way to go about it.
€25 million of public money is being used to help a private company make quick profits with few tangible benefits to the Irish people.
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It's 2021.
Sex education should be fact-based and free from religious influence.
This week the Social Democrats are bringing forward a Bill to standardise sex education in schools.
We are likely to vote on this on Wednesday. Please contact your TDs to help it pass 🙌
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Róisín Shortall and Catherine Murphy announced today that they will be stepping down to make way for a new
@SocDems
leader.
These two women have only been in my life for the past four years (📸 our first meeting in 2019), and yet they’ve had such a profound impact on it.
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On Thursday, the Tánaiste didn’t answer the question when I asked if he had concerns about Ursula von der Leyen’s response to this crisis.
The Irish Government must now make clear that Ursula von der Leyen is not representing Ireland’s position during her trip to Israel.
There is deep concern among EU institutions and capitals that by appearing to sanction Israel's expected invasion of Gaza, von der Leyen has squandered the EU's credibility - including on Ukraine.
She had no mandate to visit Israel from the member states.
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There are 18 TDs in the whole of County Cork. 17 are men. I am the only woman.
There are 6 times more men named Michael* representing Cork in the Dáíl than there are women.
*An Taoiseach Micheál Martin, Mick Barry TD, Michael Collins TD, Michael Creed TD, Michael McGrath TD.
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Ethnic cleansing is occurring on our watch and the international community is standing idly by and letting it happen.
Ireland is one of a few States willing to call out Israel's war crimes.
How long will the EU stay silent at the expense of Palestinian people?
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That the church has any hand, act or part in our schools and hospitals is truly disturbing.
#SeparateChurchAndState
👇
#RTEInvestigates
A private charity with stated Catholic values must not be given the ownership of a €500 million State-funded maternity hospital
@roinnslainte
@HSELive
@DonnellyStephen
@MichealMartinTD
@LeoVaradkar
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The debate on amendments to the Mother and Baby Home legislation has started.
I asked the minister on the outset, if he will be considering any of the amendments put forward by TDs that are based on input from survivors and human rights experts?
He said “No”.
#Stand4Truth
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Its incredible that in 2022 most of Ireland’s political parties support funding the greyhound racing industry to the tune of over €18m a year.
Organisations like Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind get a tiny fraction of that.
Cruelty in the industry continues to be a huge concern.
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In 2014, Fine Gael promised to tackle the housing crisis.
Nine years on, their policies have led to an unmitigated housing disaster.
Tonight, the government will vote to remove the eviction ban, the only protection thousands of people have against homelessness.
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The EU leaders recently released a statement.
It contained no criticisms of Israel's savagery and could only call for a ‘humanitarian pause’ of the slaughter in Gaza.
Why is no-one shouting STOP?
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Iceland has elected Europe's first female majority parliament.
Meanwhile in Ireland…
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Imagine trying to frame your political party as the party of home ownership when 12 years of Fine Gael in government has resulted in the complete opposite 🤯.
I don't know who they think they’re fooling, but I know people have had enough of this ridiculous spin.
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If there's one thing I've learned since becoming a TD, it's that you can't get a straight answer where meat plants are concerned.
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Now more than ever, we need a minister for Agriculture.
400 - 500 of the 1,250 Covid-19 cases in the past two weeks have arisen from meat factories or direct provision centres.
The Dáil needs to reconvene.
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It’s 2020, there is no maternity leave for politicians and everyone is scratching their head, wondering why there isn’t a better gender balance in Irish politics 🤔
#MoreMn
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Taoiseach, I would love it if you had paid as much attention to survivors and human rights lawyers as you have to this article - we could have ended up with better legislation that doesn’t break the law.
To help understand the facts about the mother & baby homes commission database, take a few minutes to read this piece by Colm Keena. The work that’s ongoing is about making sure information is made available, not that it’s hidden. Excellent journalism.
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Huge congratulations
@HMcEntee
- likely to be the first Minister at Cabinet to give birth while in office in the history of the State. There are no provisions for maternity leave for Irish politicians. I raised this in July👇and have a bill in the making.
It’s 2020, there is no maternity leave for politicians and everyone is scratching their head, wondering why there isn’t a better gender balance in Irish politics 🤔
#MoreMn
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🎉
Taoiseach
@MichealMartinTD
has committed to providing maternity leave for politicians, after
@HollyCairnsTD
told the Dáil the lack of leave for TDs, senators and councillors is a "glaringly obvious barrier for women".
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Record levels of homelessness.
Over 100,000 vacant homes.
More than 1 billion euro of the housing budget left unspent.
I don't think there is anyone left in the country who has faith in this government's housing policy.
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Eating disorders have the highest mortality and morbidity of all mental disorders.
Several young women with severe eating disorders have come forward recently to publicise the fact that they cannot get help.
This needs to change and fast.
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A
#ZeroCovid
strategy is inevitable, it is just so regrettable that it is taking so long.
(‘Regrettable’ is an understatement.)
Three cases of the P1 (‘Brazilian’) variant of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Ireland
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What. A. Week.
Link to full update:
(📸 it’s so nice to be back down in West Cork.)
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I think the government is severely underestimating the strength of feeling on this issue and the support the survivors have from the general public.
We have to keep up the pressure. Please share and contact your TDs if you haven’t already:
#RTEUpfront
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It has never been easier to find an empty hotel room and the Government can’t provide adequate space for mandatory hotel quarantining?
You couldn't make it up.
A lack of preparation and foresight is a recurring theme of the government's response to the pandemic.
#TonightVMTV
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Ireland isn’t full, it just isn’t working properly.
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🚺 "Why do we see toilet paper as a necessity but not tampons?"
Period poverty is one of the issues I raised in the Dáil yesterday when speaking on the topic of International Women's Day.
Shout out to
@AnytimeMonth
@PlanIreland
and
@RebeccaMoy
🙌.
#MoreMn
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#IWD2021
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I don’t have confidence in this government.
I will vote to support the no-confidence motion in the Dáil this evening.
🧵
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War crimes are not defined by the identity of the perpetrator - they are defined by the act.
The mass murder of Israeli civilians by Hamas is a war crime.
The slaughter of Palestinians - and cutting off food, water and energy to 2 million people in Gaza - is a war crime.
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Please contact your TDs to ask them to support the Social Democrats motion tomorrow.
E-mail template here:
#CeasefireNow
#SanctionsNow
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Late last night in Cahir, Co. Tipperary, a women's history group secretly put up 24 temporary plaques to celebrate the forgotten women of the town.
(🧵Thread👇)
#IWD2021
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Leo Varadkar says the Opposition needs to understand it takes time to build housing.
But we all understand that.
The question is how much time does he want?
Fine Gael has been in power for 12 years now and things have only gotten worse.
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This is an issue that is so important to so many families, and the fact that the Tánaiste decided to use the limited time to reply to try and score cheap political points says it all.
Thread👇
#ButNotMaternity
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🚨Seal Rescue are urging people to:
👉stay at least 100 metres away from him
👉and not post his location on social media
He is a wild animal and a protected species hundreds of miles from his Arctic home.
PLEASE SHARE 🙌
📰
#WestCork
#WallyTheWalrus
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What an absolute disgrace.
Done deal. Cabinet has approved the governance and ownership arrangements for the new NMH.
@VirginMediaNews
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It would have been really helpful if the Taoiseach and the Minister for Health had aired these concerns before now.
Rotunda series latest:
- Taoiseach Micheál Martin says he he doesn’t think the production was appropriate.
- Stephen Donnelly believes the Master of the Rotunda should answer questions.
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The owners said they are "so proud to call Cork our home" after their customers queued for two hours to support their fundraiser on Sunday.
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The story of maternal healthcare is the story of how we have treated women in this country: how they have been neglected, disdained and infantilised.
Those days are over. Women may not have a lobby, but they can vote. Government should remember this.
My
@Independent_ie
op ed👇
"People gathered inside pubs and restaurants yesterday to enjoy a pint, a meal and a chat. Yet today in maternity hospitals all over the country, women will miscarry alone; attend important scans and appointments alone; even give birth alone."
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Government has once again chosen inaction.
Their refusal to commit to intervening in support of the Palestinian people, in the International Court of Justice, is indefensible.
Ireland has a responsibility under the genocide convention to act, and act now.
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This is my grandmother, Sylvia Cairns (we call her Nanny).
She is 88 years old.
50 years ago, along with a group of trailblazing women, she helped to set up a charity called Cherish (now known as
@1familyireland
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🧵
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There are just three public in-patient beds for eating disorders in the whole country. All are in Dublin.
People with severe eating disorders are being forced to travel to the UK to get the care they need.
How is this in any way acceptable?
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Where were these prevention and control protocols when partners were sitting in car parks?
And why can't they be implemented now?
Filming took place with minimal numbers of crew on site and strict infection prevention and control protocols were adhered to at all times.
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Discriminatory teachings like this👇 should be explicitly banned from our schools.
An introduction to the programme says that when discussing LGBT issues, the “Church’s teaching in relation to marriage between a man and a woman cannot be omitted”.
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"Payslips seen by the Irish Examiner show that some staff had up to €50 deducted directly from their wages for the price of PPE during the pandemic."
The way the meat industry treats people is scandalous. What will it take for government to intervene?
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We live alongside these people every day and their suffering must be acknowledged. My priority will always be not to offend victims of abuse and discrimination by saying nothing.
I'm sorry for my choice of words, it wasn’t personal in 2012, it’s not personal today.
#Stand4Truth
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The Dáil was recalled on the same day in 1990 by Haughey in the wake of the Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait, which left Larry Goodman’s company with £180m dept. Haughey denied the Dáil was recalled to save Goodman International but emergency legislation was passed to save it.
Many farmers will remember that on a previous occasion the Dáil was recalled was in 1990 by then Taoiseach Charles Haughey. At the time Haughey denied that the Dáil was recalled to save Larry Goodman’s company.
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The Government just voted down our amendment to include an explicit condemnation of Israel’s war crimes in Gaza.
Unfortunately, without that we cannot support their motion.
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We’re in the middle of a pandemic and constantly hear that there isn't funding for essential services like disability supports, refuge space for victims of domestic violence, communities that are flooding - it is beyond infuriating to see where and how money IS being allocated.
Today, government are trying to push a Greyhound Racing motion through WITHOUT DEBATE.
The budget has allocated €19.2m to Greyhound Racing - an increase of €2.4 million.
See motion here👇
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📸The
@farmersjournal
took this photo of me and my mum and I love it so much.
My mum is so supportive of my new life in politics especially considering she is down a pair of hands on the farm.
She also looks after my dog when I am in Dublin🙌.
A busy week again this week👇.
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“What did we vote for?”
Six years after we
#RepealedThe8th
, women are still being forced to travel to the UK for healthcare.
The government has sat on Marie O’Shea’s report for a year.
How many more women have to suffer before they act?
#RTEInvestigates
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📻This morning I went on Today with Claire Byrne to debate the increase in greyhound funding with Cllr. David McManus. Listen here👇
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Today, government are trying to push a Greyhound Racing motion through WITHOUT DEBATE.
The budget has allocated €19.2m to Greyhound Racing - an increase of €2.4 million.
See motion here👇
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Deeply disturbing details have been leaked from the Mother and Baby Homes Commission Report before survivors have been given the chance to read it.
Details like, some women being "taunted" while giving birth. These taunts linked their childbirth pain to their unmarried status.
The Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation report to be published this week will reveal that a "most disquieting" 9,000 children died in the just 18 institutions investigated, the Sunday Independent has learned.
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This is so outrageous and unfair.
We cannot stand for it.
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As a public rep I have a responsibility to choose words carefully.
I didn’t do that here so I want to be very clear.
Asylum seekers are welcome here.
I absolutely & unequivocally condemn the abhorrent mistreatment of people seeking asylum.
The manager of Magowna House knew for three months that asylum seekers would be housed there.
But nobody else was told.
Not the local community, not local politicians, not even Clare Immigrant Support Centre.
How was this handled so poorly?
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Planting trees on bogland dries it out, leading to greater carbon emissions from the soil than sequestration by the trees. This is not a solution. Bogs need to be kept as wet as possible to conserve their carbon and take more out of the atmosphere.
Over 600,000 native trees to be planted on unused bogland
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“If you want to get elected, you need to be less opinionated.”
What's the worst advice anyone ever gave you? 🤔
(I'm working on badges for my new collection 'Bad Life Advice')
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Louise O’Neill: ‘If someone trusts you enough to send an intimate photo, respect that trust. Talk to your sons rather than warning your daughters’
@oneilllo
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This debate went on for so long we didn't get to have the final vote on the Mother and Baby Homes redress scheme.
Instead it will happen in the next few weeks. So there is still time for the government to do the right thing.
Please contact your govt TDs:
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When we keep silent to avoid offence, we offend the many thousands who have suffered and are still waiting for justice. Ongoing cover-ups, people deprived of their adoption files, Tuam - there are genuine grounds for speaking out against a culture of trying to hide these things.
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This morning I launched a Bill that would extend maternity, adoptive and paternity leave to county and city councillors.
(No, they aren't entitled to this leave at the moment, and no, I couldn't believe it either).
Thread👇
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The manager of Magowna House knew for three months that asylum seekers would be housed there.
But nobody else was told.
Not the local community, not local politicians, not even Clare Immigrant Support Centre.
How was this handled so poorly?
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Thread:
Today marks one year since the 2020 General Election.
During the campaign we couldn’t keep up with the demand for our ‘More Mná’ badges.
I lost count of how many times I donated my badge to someone I met in the street or on the doors.
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Along with my colleague
@WhitmoreJen
, I am calling for a specialised Garda unit to tackle wildlife crime and for more funding to the National Parks & Wildlife Service
@AgrilandIreland
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