Recent permission given to Omagh developers McGinn for large-scale development on grounds of notorious Bessborough mother and baby home, podcast on the institution's history and latest controversy here:

The dread of parents of dependent offspring with Disabilities is so often: what will happen to them upon my death? After a lifetime of caring, parents deserve not to have to face old age and death with this terrible fear for their loved-ones.

Things most people don't realise about disability: it's the cost that is crippling. https://t.co/6pUkyt3qh5 @MichealMartinTD #deaf #Disability

"Weapons of mass destruction" defence, 23 years later #Iran

Asking @MichealMartinTD these questions about disability: why is disability allowance means tested? Why isn't it indexed? Why is there no Deaf tax credit? Why are dependent adult children with disabilities not factored into Fair Deal? Why aren't they exempt from inheritance tax?

Re 'mother of an adult child with an intellectual disability [informed] of her “legal obligation” to financially support her daughter “indefinitely”.' If this is so, why does Fair Deal not recognize disabled adult dependents? @MichealMartinTD

The Balfour Declaration was issued on 2 November 1917. In the memorable words of Arthur Koestler, Balfour’s declaration was “one the most improbable political documents of all time,” in which “one nation solemnly promised to a second nation the country of a third.” As is well

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I can never look at flour the same way. Eating bread now, I only see the thousands who were killed, injured, and permanently disabled at aid distribution spots for just one kilo of flour that now costs only $2. I hate this world.

The only protests in the USA that will get noticed by the folk who make decisions are not paying rent or taxes, not buying unnecessary stuff and not going to work. Oh and selling all your US dollars and all your shares.

2 exhibitions launched today at @glucksman @UCC one on "Labour of Love Economies of #Care in Contemporary Art" and the unseen work of carers. @podonovan spoke of the importance of art in democracy's darkest hours. @Johnbees reiterated the centrality of #DEI to the university.

Lovely piece in the @echolivecork about German Ambassador’s visit to @ucc https://t.co/O8NAfWy7jq

German Ambassador David Gill with students of @ucc German Department at their exhibition on Kleist (or Anti-Kleist). Extremely proud of their achievement. @GERMANYinIRL

What’s in the boxes? An experiential and interactive approach by PhD student @MarninaW to Gerald Goldberg and his archive and the Cork Jewish community’s history now on in @ucc Aula Maxima

Online event next week @ucc

German Studies Journal, call for submissions to Indo-German @OxfordGerman @ags_tweets @GermanAbdn @CritGerStudiesC @ExpandingGerman @germaninireland

Screening at @UCC on #HolocaustRemembranceDay, January 27th at 16:00. All welcome.

A very important letter on gender in academia in today’s @IrishTimes

Once again, the Resnicks own MOST of the water in California. No one should own most of the water in any state!

Sophia has wanted to make this video as she is fed up waiting for @DubCityCouncil to fix the footpath and access out side the shops in Marino. This is the safe route she takes home from school but for 5 weeks now she has had to rely on others to help her get back up on the