Ciara Reilly
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Deeply, deeply uncomfortable at the thoughts of the young men and women of Ireland being told that they can’t go into a coffee shop to meet their pals, but serving their vaccinated elders in one is ok. Thinking of my students who deserve better from our State.
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All those years of ignoring my nagging are finally paying off. Unflappable.
Fair play to
@gavreilly
who kept going as protesters shouted ' fake news get off the air' 👏 at the
#Dail
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A little reminder to parents.
You don’t need to do the elf thing.
You don’t have to do a Christmas Eve Box.
You don’t have to have matching pyjamas.
You don’t have to organise presents from parents AND Santy.
You don’t have to gift wrap presents when Santy leaves them.
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Lads,
@gavreilly
came home and had a feed. I changed the batteries in his back, so I reckon we can get three more days or so out of him.
#GE2020
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Today is Ann Lovett’s anniversary. Know her name and remember her.
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I am deeply uncomfortable with this type of commentary and analysis. Must we publicly scorn this family as a problematic case study when all of us would have done the exact same thing? Where is the humanity?
Dr Ray Walley says family meetings are driving infections, and urges people to keep their contacts low. He says one family visited a loved one in hospital who was dying with Covid, and the entire family contracted the virus. | Read more:
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Mná na hÉireann are having a good day, has to be said.
Glass ceilings shattering left, right and centre.
🙌🏻
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The decision to keep schools open at Level 5 is primarily an economic decision. Please, do not patronise teachers by stating otherwise. The hazing of a profession is degrading and demoralising. See also, “pods” in rooms where you cannot socially distance.
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With all due respect, children have suffered enough.
Pulling back on extra-curricular events, without doing *anything* meaningful to make classrooms safer - no HEPA filters? Still no full contact tracing? - is at best unimaginative and at worst just downright cruel.
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Tony Holohan, yesterday: Unvaccinated people should be avoiding any significant gathering where possible.
Norma Foley, today:
Pregnant and unvaccinated teachers can go into a classroom with dozens of unvaccinated, unmasked people.
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Tell me that you’re the parent of a toddler without telling me you’re the parent of a toddler.
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I attended our local Children's Disability Network Team Family Forum meeting tonight. I've never, ever been in a more distressing and upsetting meeting. Parents openly sobbing as a State service asks them (as though they need to be told) how they can do better.
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I found myself almost emotional when finishing up with two classes yesterday and today. What we have asked of young people this year is nothing short of remarkable. They are exhausted, lonely and sad, but have kept going. I think that they’re extraordinary.
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So many people ‘return’ to work and study this week. Patience, compassion and consideration must be a part of every interaction, in every email and and every utterance. Treat people well. As always, try to lift others as you climb yourself. We will get through this time.
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There isn’t a State honour high enough for the tenacious, determined and brilliant Catherine Corless. I’ll tell you this, my daughter will know her name.
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It’s possible to be concerned about the welfare of children, and to have concerns about the public health situation and how it affects school staff. It’s not an either-or. The constant binary back-and-forth of half-baked ideas being presented helps nobody.
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It would be helpful if, at some point, somebody in authority just said it aloud: schools are inherently a major risk of virus transmission, and the rest of society has shut down to allow for that risk.
It’s not nice but there’s no point dancing around the issue.
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Lots of hating on the moratorium but you should SEE the lists of chores I have planned for
@gavreilly
from 2pm today. Might even pop them into a spreadsheet. 😆
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Incidental school inspections are continuing, despite the national shortage of substitute teachers. Surely the better way to maintain standards of teaching (and to keep classes open!) would be for the inspectorate itself to be redeployed for teaching duty?
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Stop with the pressure. If you really want to do any of the above, go for it. But it really feels like a lot of this stuff is done for the benefit and approval of other parents. Make your own traditions. Enjoy and don’t endure Christmas.
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Six stillbirths (and one miscarriage) in in ONE country in three months, but it would be disproportionate to consider vaccinating those pregnant.
Six blood clots in 6.8m J&J recipients but it’s prudent to stop the whole thing.
The cost-benefit ratio is different for women.
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Thinking about the parade floats that didn’t get their day in the sun today. Golfgate. Meghan, Harry and Oprah. Fungi. So many Tony Holohans and Joe Bidens. Brennans Bread vans relabelled as Banana Bread vans, and one slightly out-of-date Tiger King float. Alas.
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You can make a choice to live as closely as possible to Level 5, regards of announcements.
I feel like now is the time to dig deep and act as though we are at Level 5. I would like to see family and friends at Christmas.
I can do more now, so I’ll try to do that.
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Good morning. This isn't a thing. Don't let the media convince you that it is. End.
The classroom is now the frontline of gender wars according to teachers, who have admitted that they are “walking on eggshells” and terrified
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Thinking of cajoling
@gavreilly
into a live online Christmas sing-along, you request the classics and we’ll do some shout-outs for people listening in. All for a good cause. I’ll work on him.
Due to popular demand here's
@gavreilly
's Facebook live performance
@DublinAirport
earlier as he waited to welcome his pal Colin Scally. Thanks Gavan for a cracking performance. You definitely have at least one few fan ☺️
#DUBChristmas
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We have had many difficult days in education over the past 12 months.
But today stands out.
We have never been an “I’m alright, Jack” profession.
To put one teacher in danger is to put all in danger.
Unions must respond.
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No inter-county travel till July? This is the strongest signal yet that this approach is all built around keeping schools open. To be so adamant about that, and to pull hopes of some sort of priority vaccine schedule for teachers at the same time is appalling.
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• Something is poorly communicated to the electorate
• Media accurately reports what has been shared
• The public reacts unfavourably
• The decision is reversed and spun as ‘clarified’ or ‘corrected’
• The media is blamed for accurate reporting
Lather, rinse, repeat.
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Well, it happened. The baby said Leo and Heather (Heather!) before we got a Mammy out of her. No more press conferences or Oireachtas TV for her.
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Thank you all so much for sharing this thread from last night. I hate that I have to disrespect my own daughter's privacy by highlighting it so publicly, but this is Ireland 2022. Inadequacy in public services are only ever addressed through Stateshaming.
I attended our local Children's Disability Network Team Family Forum meeting tonight. I've never, ever been in a more distressing and upsetting meeting. Parents openly sobbing as a State service asks them (as though they need to be told) how they can do better.
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Dr. Tony Holohan is the T.K. Whitaker figure of this generation. His public contribution has been so immense, he is a Statesman and a true servant.
Thank you to his family for sharing him with the nation at their most difficult time. Go bhfaighidh sibh suaimhneas anois.
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‘We will keep schools open’ isn’t an achievement. It’s a statement, and barely a strategy. Simply stating it - and getting kudos from certain journalists or other quarters - doesn’t make it so.
What everyone wants is for schools to open sustainably. On that score we’re losing.
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Once more for the people down the back: the delayed LC grades have *nothing* to do with teachers. Nothing. Teachers submitted grades as quickly as they were asked.
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Making this available to all, have started a
@padlet
with tools, apps, ideas and sites to support Irish Primary pupils working at home. If you have any suggestions of activities or resources to add, let me know and I can slot them in!
@MarinoInstitute
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Louise and I already have Monart booked, and *we’re* bringing Zara. They can mind the child and the dog.
My wish for 2021 is that Gav Reilly and Richard Chambers get to go on a nice spa weekend
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For every act of mothering that I have done this week, I can’t but think of the mother in/escaping conflict trying to do the same things. Aching bodies feeding, exhausted hands holding, lips telling tales to distract and comfort. My privilege is overwhelming. God bless them all.
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Good morning only to anyone who has read the same book to the same child over twenty times this morning.
AGAIN! Says she.
*coughs*
“Once there were three baby owls: Sarah and Percy and Bill.”
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Please try to set a mask culture around you, unless you absolutely cannot wear one. I was the only one, the *only one* wearing one in the supermarket this morning. It is a simple concession to make as we progress to Phase 2.
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So many educators in my life are demoralised and feel utterly patronised.
To hear the CMO say that indoor dining is unwise for children at the moment - when it’s barely a fraction of the length of a school day - is genuinely upsetting. All was fine indoors a matter of days ago.
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A little reminder to enjoy your food and chocolate this weekend, and not to engage in destructive self-talk. No pig emojis, no memes, etc. Block any accounts involved in that nonsense. Eat well and be well. It’s a lovely time of year.
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"It took a pandemic to bring hot water to our classrooms."
2020/2021.
Great line from
@INTOPresident
.
#INTOCongress21
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As all retail staff return today may we all vow to give them the respect they deserve. Always treat them as you would like to be treated in your own role. It’s so good to have them back. Thanks also to essential store staff who kept us all going all this time. Heroes.
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Boosted and immediately back to feeding the baby in the hope of passing on those powerful antibodies over the next while. Thank you so much to all involved in the vaccination process. Run ragged for us, and still smiling and supporting all. You are the best of us! ❤️
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The chaos, I have come to just expect.
But the insincerity is worse. I can’t accept that they find it appropriate to send out Minister X to explain things, while Minister Y waits in the wings with their version and Minister Z has a different take further up the radio dial.
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It is highly inappropriate that education announcements are continuously revealed through the media.
We are in a national crisis. It’s elitist and exclusionary to make a major government announcement on Covid in a throwaway comment to a select audience.
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It is absolutely vital that the teaching unions unite with parents and students on this issue. Otherwise, this will be spun as the teachers revolting and pulling an opportunity from the students. We cannot let that happen.
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Tomorrow is going to be a day of vulnerability and extremes for Leaving Cert students. Elation and upset, excitement and regret. Go easy with the advice here. They will be feeling it all, and they’re entitled to it. I wish them all the best and hope they’re ok tonight.
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Honestly, I am blown away by the personal responsibility so many school leaders are taking on as we prepare for the return to school. We are so lucky to have them, but it should not be like this. Far too much is being left to local leaders to grapple with, in a near-total void.
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I see that “be kind” is now a weapon to be used in defence against accountability and standards of appropriate behaviour.
An account holder that vilified a young woman (and targeted countless other people) does not deserve sanctuary under “be kind”. Consequences follow. End of.
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Solidarity to the brilliant principals who are governing multiple gatherings of unvaccinated people, and are now being scolded for… *checks notes*… identifying close contacts in their own classrooms instead of waiting 48+ hours for telephone triage from a contact tracing.
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This is such a teacher move. We’ve all done it.
#edchatie
She got the press TOGETHER in less than 12 seconds!
That’s black auntie energy.
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With the greatest of respect, it IS a value judgment. Healthcare workers were treated differently, and correctly, on the basis that they were vital to a functioning society and they had a higher risk of exposure than others. Which is exactly what teachers are.
#INTOCongress21
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Crucial that the media take a calm and measured response to this news. The school did what they needed to do, the HSE take it from here. Respect this school and give them space.
Confirmation from a Dublin primary school principal that a child has tested positive for Covid 19 and that the class has been sent home. The pupil did not contract the virus in school
#TodayCB
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When it comes to running schools there’s an alarming disconnect between the views of the commentariat, and the lived experience of those on the ground.
It seems everyone’s happy except the actual stakeholders.
DES have won the terraces but lost the dressing room.
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Fascinating to see how some people’s reactions to school closures is to immediately assume it’s all the nefarious influence of… *checks notes* … teachers? Ah yes, Mother Nature is in the pocket of Big Teach yet again I see!
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Campaign starts now for
@gavreilly
and Natasha to do a 24 hour gig at
@DublinAirport
*departures* on July 19th. 🙌🏻 ✈️
Due to popular demand here's
@gavreilly
's Facebook live performance
@DublinAirport
earlier as he waited to welcome his pal Colin Scally. Thanks Gavan for a cracking performance. You definitely have at least one few fan ☺️
#DUBChristmas
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When I say I howled.
Planning on waking up
@gavreilly
in a bit by just shouting WHAT ABOUT GYMS? WHAT ABOUT GYMS? WHAT ABOUT GYMS? WHAT ABOUT GYMS? over and over.
I honestly have to scream at the way people rush into the mentions of Irish journalists looking for tailored hyper specific info about restrictions easing etc. “Sorry any word on when the tiddlywinks classes at the credit union 6 miles away from will be back on?” I can’t!
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"This is the calm, before the storm, before the surge."
Remarkable composure from An Taoiseach.
What a moment in our history.
What a moment.
High rope politics with no net.
Nothing but respect and admiration for him and his team.
We will prevail.
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Now's not the time for a bigger discussion but, for the record: a primary schools' "readiness" (or otherwise) for online learning is not a measure of its quality. Nobody could have been expected to deal with the circumstances they're facing now. Festina lente. Try your best.
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Were I an opposition education spokesperson, I’d be asking why the EAL allocation for Ukrainian pupils (who absolutely deserve all support) isn’t extended to migrant pupils from other countries.
A rationale and an explanation for this decision is overdue.
#edchatie
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No timelines. No structure. No transparent KPIs. Children "active" in a service even if they have never been seen by the team. Consultations (if happening!) still on Zoom. Years of waiting lists. Paperwork being sent to the wrong people. Broken promises. Shame, shame, shame.
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WFH is a privilege for many of us in education. Tonight, I am thinking of colleagues in schools and childcare settings that will never have that option. It is a difficult and worrying time for them all.
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With all due respect to those behind it, the suggestion to conclude the school term early is illogical and senseless. It will serve to do nothing but lower the tone of discourse about the teaching community. Unfortunate.
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It's hard to articulate the despair that was in that room. Parents are distraught, alone and clueless. Begging and pleading to be heard and listened to, and for people to just do their jobs. Just. Do. The. Work. My love to all in that room tonight. If you know, you know. 💙
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I am absolutely over the moon and completely humbled to be nominated for a
@ForumTL
and
@TheUSI
Teaching Hero award.
Supporting and teaching my
@MarinoInstitute
students means the absolute world to me, and it is a privilege to work with them every day. I'm beyond chuffed!
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Unbelievable efficiency at the
@ucddublin
vaccination centre this morning. Went from the front door of O’Reilly Hall to being vaccinated in under 12 minutes. Superb care and attention of all present. Beyond grateful to
@HSELive
and
@_TheNMH
this morning, as always. Science. ❤️
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Can’t help but feel the Irish education sector has been very badly served in the course of this crisis, through either tactical (or careless) leaks and the fuelling of over-the-top speculation. Nobody was equipped for this, but the message was not managed well.
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Hurling is simply the greatest game on earth, even when it doesn’t go your way it cannot be beaten. Walking back to the car, soaked and gutted but wishing Limerick every success going forward. They absolutely deserved that win. 💔
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Personal news, that may just be the professional news you're looking for…
Digital Education (maternity leave) role at
@MarinoInstitute
.
I promise to leave a healthy stash of Nespresso tabs for the successful candidate! 😀
#jobfairy
#edchatie
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Gulp! A bit of news. I'm thrilled beyond words to share that I'm joining
@MarinoInstitute
in a full-time capacity as a Lecturer in ICT and Digital Education. So excited for this next chapter, and looking forward to working in a place that made me the teacher I am. (1/5)
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What evidence supports the rationale of the three day week for LC students?
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Schools cannot ‘keep Covid out’ or ‘keep children safe’. They’ll try their best to do all that they can to avoid infection, but community rates will always impact on school rates. Stop blaming schools, particularly those facing the emotional and physical ordeal of an outbreak.
So Dept of Education is subtly saying that this is the schools fault! I'm sure this is the last thing that anyone involved needs to hear hope they are all ok
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