Órla Ryan
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Not on here very often anymore! // News Correspondent @TheJournal_ie ; creator @RedactedLives podcast; She/her
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The first episode of our new documentary series
@RedactedLives
is out now.
It tells the stories of women and children who spent time in mother and baby homes.
It has been such a privilege to work with survivors for the past year to create the series.
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Can't wait for the government to announce the next update on Covid-19 restrictions via a sea shanty on TikTok.
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One of my favourite updates from Sligo is getting photos of the calf whose preferred seating position is this.
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According to messages and posts over the past few days, I am a cunt and a bitch and in one case a person said it's 'wishful thinking' l would be 'finished off'.
Would any of this shit put me off doing my job? No.
Solidarity to all those who marched in counter-protest today.
The authors of those FactChecks have received a lot of unacceptable (and misogynistic, of course) abuse online since.
To see a physical presence (albeit outside an empty office) is an escalation that should be condemned by
@MichealMartinTD
’s government.
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Labelling a female a slut is the calling card of a man with no valid argument to make
The Greta Thunberg mural has only been up a few days but has already been destroyed by graffiti.
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You know what's comparable to living in Nazi Germany? Living in Nazi Germany.
Stop comparing (often minor) inconveniences to genocide.
Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.
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There was a sketch years ago in The Savage Eye where Éamon de Valera celebrated getting the keys to Ireland back off the British.
In the scene, he hands them straight to a bishop. All too accurate.
#RTEInvestigates
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A very significant intervention from the United Nations
Exclusive: People had their 'childhood stolen' in Irish institutions due to 'systemic racism'
Redress scheme for Mother and Baby Homes is inadequate and must be extended, human rights experts say
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My pronouns are she/her.
Adding your pronouns to your Twitter bio and email signature etc may seem like it doesn't matter but it helps trans and NB folks do the same.
Someone else's pronouns have no effect on you and yours. Just be sound.
#InternationalPronounsDay
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I'm honoured to win a Justice Media Award for my work on Mother and Baby Homes over the past year.
Thanks to everyone who has trusted me with their stories. Many more to come.
Congratulations to the other winners.
#JMA21
Merit certificates are awarded to
@MDoyler
(
@IrishSunOnline
) and
@orlaryan
(
@thejournal_ie
) in our first category - Print / Online Journalism (Daily) - while
@jenny_friel
’s reporting for
@irishdailymail
, which prompted legislative change, is a deserving winner.
#JMA21
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Huge turnout for Trans and Intersex
#Pride
in Dublin. The first in-person event since 2019.
@IzzyKamikaze
speaking now - calling for ban on conversion therapy & making sex ed more inclusive. She notes how many supportive parents are here today, hoping this continues to increase.
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Always rather depressing/inevitable to see the Dáil empty for the actual debate on Mother and Baby Homes redress scheme, before filling up for the vote itself.
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She was just out for a run.
Horrific news from Tullamore tonight. A young woman killed in an attack alongside the canal in broad daylight.
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BREAKING: State admits Philomena Lee and Mary Harney's rights were breached by Commission
A hugely significant victory for
#MotherAndBabyHomes
survivors:
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You know what's evergreen advice? Read the fucking article. Not just the headline.
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Once more for the people in the back: Trans rights are human rights.
Cis people are not an authority on trans issues, nor should they seek to be.
Side note: Someone needs to take Gl*nner's phone away.
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Gráinne Griffin of
@Together4yes
says group would support legislation being called Savita's Law, as requested by her parents, saying they were "so honoured and touched" by their support of the
#8thref
campaign.
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BREAKING: Philomena Lee among women taking legal action against findings in
#MotherAndBabyHomes
report
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I am genuinely bowled over by this and so honoured.
Such amazing work in this category.
Thank you ❤️
Órla Ryan
@orlaryan
from the
@thejournal_ie
From travelling to Kenya to report on women’s rights issues such as child marriage and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) to interviewing people in Lebanon about their experience in refugee camps, Órla has a diverse body of work.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again -
@SarahAMcInerney
is a brilliant, skilful interviewer.
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FYI - If you send transphobic tweets/replies, I will report and block you.
I have no time for that crap.
Ireland should be providing healthcare for the people who live here. Full stop.
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Who is best placed to talk about the experiences of trans people? Trans people themselves.
Their voices should be elevated and listened to.
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
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People being held accountable for their (at times abusive) actions is not the same as being 'cancelled'.
Thanks For Coming To My Ted Talk.
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For those saying, 'sure it was also bad in other countries' and 'all experiences in the homes weren't bad', maybe just don't today.
Your hot take isn't worth it, it's insulting to survivors.
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Thread: Tusla has refused an FOI request from Peter Mulryan, saying it cannot locate records about his older sister.
Bridget was born in Holles Street Hospital on 29 October 1936 before being transferred to St Gerard’s, an institution for unmarried mothers and their children.
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Every county will be one of five levels ... or they can choose the level that's in the mystery box.
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A rare sight in Irish politics - an almost all-female panel launching an Oireachtas report
#8committee
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Of course we live in a matriarchy.
Ireland famously treats its women so well. No issues here. None at all.
Just one question: what are sports?
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The Irish healthcare system is failing transgender people and forcing them to go abroad for treatment,
@Noah_Halpin
says.
Ireland "can’t keep sending people abroad for major invasive surgeries with little to no aftercare when we get home", he says.
"Does that sound familiar?"
'We can't keep sending trans people abroad for major surgery with no aftercare when they get home': Why activists are calling for a new model of trans healthcare in Ireland
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You know what has loads of toilets and bins?
Hotels! Let's build more of those!
City planning is easy, really.
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Sure look, we all p̵a̵r̵t̵i̵e̵d̵ ̵posed as pollsters to gather information on voters
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People who gave evidence to the
#MotherAndBabyHomes
Commission are contacting the Data Protection Commissioner & gardaí about the destruction of audio recordings of their testimony.
A number of witnesses say they would not have testified if they knew the audio would be deleted.
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A thread on mental health for the day that's in it.
Like a lot of people, this year has been difficult for me.
For a few months I was in quite a dark place and really struggling.
The pandemic has impacted us all in different ways and continues to do so.
#WorldMentalHealthDay
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Just to note -
@ococonuts
has done phenomenal work on illegal adoptions and Mother and Baby Homes over the years.
He uncovered so much and for a while was pretty much the only journalist shining a light on all this.
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Thank you very much for all the messages of support and solidarity - they are much appreciated, as are the many donations
@thejournal_ie
has received since the protest yesterday.
I'm grand and generally don't pay too much heed to keyboard warriors...
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When it was pointed out that one of the victims had tried to take her own life, a member in one forum asked "Was she hot?"
Legislation on image-based sexual abuse is urgently needed.
If you see anyone sharing this type of material, call them out. It is not okay.
Gardaí looking into allegations that large number of images of women and girls were shared online without their consent
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Finally made it into
@thejournal_ie
- delighted.
reporter Órla Ryan has won the Irish Red Cross Journalism Excellence Award 2020.
The award honours journalists who cover a range of humanitarian issues or who are committed to highlighting social injustices in Ireland or abroad.
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.
@HollyCairnsTD
notes the irony of debating
#BurialsBills
on the day Cabinet is set to sign off on plans to develop
#NationalMaternityHospital
at St Vincent's campus.
Religious bodies shouldn't have any control over women's healthcare, as Ireland's past clearly shows, she says.
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Honoured to win a Justice Media Award for my reporting on FGM in Ireland and Kenya.
Congratulations to all the
@thejournal_ie
crew and everyone who brought home awards.
#JMA2020
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I remember that Sunday in Dublin.
Primarily because it was today.
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Huge crowd at
#StandWithNursesAndMidwives
rally. Large cheer as Irish Rail train beeped in support when driving by.
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This is so irresponsible.
We are speaking with Professor Delores Cahill who says Covid19 can be cured with Vitamin C and hydroxychloroquine. The Professor is telling Mick "there is no need to lockdown the country. No need for masks, social distancing or closing small businesses and pubs"
#NPRedfm
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Mary Harney, who has been dubbed the 'Resister in Chief', celebrating today's news at her home in Galway.
#MotherAndBabyHomes
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This may get lost amid all the madness, but the
#BurialsBill
has passed the Oireachtas & been sent to President Higgins to be signed into law.
A very significant development for survivors & relatives. It comes almost a decade after Catherine Corless first published her research.
Long-awaited legislation to allow for the excavation of the former mother and baby institution site in Tuam has passed through its final stage in the Oireachtas
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But I thought he single-handedly repealed the 8th Amendment?
Fine Gael byelection candidate James Geoghegan organised a conference for anti-abortion TDs and senators.
The event featured a standing ovation for these politicians' rejection of legislation that provided for abortion when mothers' lives were at risk.
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Exclusive: Nurses working in the ICU at St Vincent’s University Hospital say they are at “breaking point” due to chronic staff shortages.
They have to use a baby monitor to watch certain patients as there are not enough staff members to cover every bed.
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And just like that it has been nine years.
Here you are teaching Shep to jump fences.
Love you ❤️❤️❤️
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James Sugrue was boarded out with his brothers in Kerry. He was abused as a child.
He and thousands of others who were fostered as children are excluded from the
#MotherAndBabyHomes
redress scheme.
"How dare they exclude us? ... I'll keep protesting until I die."
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There is some confusion over what Garda Commissioner Drew Harris said at a Policing Authority meeting about image-based sexual abuse today.
Here is exactly what he said:
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More debate on the records of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes in the Dáil this afternoon.
Catherine Connolly says sealing the records for 30 years "is not about protecting the survivors, this is about protecting the system".
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The Commissioner, confusion and a history lesson in muting women.
My report on a strange event that resulted in more questions than answers for survivors of
#MotherAndBabyHomes
'Yet another blow to survivors': Women get few answers as Commissioner defends Mother and Baby Home report
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This was something else.
Prof Mary Daly acknowledged the
#MotherAndBabyHomes
Commission discounted evidence of hundreds of survivors given to Confidential Committee.
She also basically gave out to
@ococonuts
for having "a bee in his bonnet" about Bessborough.
Report to follow.
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This is such a mess.
When a witness who gave testimony to the
#MotherAndBabyHomes
Commission tried to report the destruction of her audio recording to gardaí, they told her to contact police in England (where she now lives), police today referred her *back* to gardaí.
'Ireland has let me down': UK police refer county home survivor back to gardaí over destruction of testimony given to
#MotherAndBabyHomes
Commission
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Survivors of
#MotherAndBabyHomes
are calling for the redress scheme to be extended.
James Sugrue, who was abused when boarded out as a child, quotes Prof Conor O'Mahony: 'If you don't want to compensate people for violating their human rights, don't violate their human rights.'
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Thousands gathered in Dublin city for
@INMO_IRL
rally in support of nurses and midwives, who are engaging in strike action over pay and staffing levels.
#StandWithNursesAndMidwives
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Good news everyone: The pandemic is not actually that bad, Michael O'Leary has informed
@morningireland
Off to celebrate by booking some cheap flights.
Joking aside, accusing NPHET of spreading misinformation is very disingenuous.
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I'm honoured to be nominated for the Journalism Excellence Award at the 2020 Humanitarian Awards.
I'm in amazing company - the journalism and other work being showcased is incredible.
Congratulations to all the nominees.
After a vast number of nominations across all categories and a tough decision-making process, the finalists of the 2020
@irishredcross
Humanitarian Awards have been chosen.
Click:
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When the Commission into Mother and Baby Homes published its report in January 2021, many survivors felt ignored - all over again.
Since then I've been working with people who passed through the system, as mothers & children, so they can tell their own stories in their own words
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So glad this all worked out
From the 2004 Fine Gael Dublin Manifesto "Dublin: A Home for Everyone"
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I don't agree with any personal abuse or threats being directed at politicians, but to say people concerned about the mother and baby homes bill have been “fooled by online trolls” is simply incorrect & an insult to survivors, many of whom have been retraumatised by this debate.
I asked one FF TD who was behind the supposed 'hijacking':
"People involved in politics, people we can figure that out for themselves, it's fairly obvious."
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"I edged towards the door and when I got there one shouted: 'Hazel Chu, you're going to turn into a shapeshifting dragon someday and we're going to catch it on camera'."
The culmination of deeply embedded racism and buying into conspiracy theories.
Solidarity with
@hazechu
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"You've got to sit down or we'll all die."
Hard-hitting new Covid campaign.
#LateLateToyShow
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'Now people can focus on the Rose of Tralee and the Knock Novena' - Marty M has the most Irish response ever to a draw.
#KerryvMayo
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"If you don’t like wearing a face covering, then you really won’t like wearing a ventilator. I can’t be any more blunt than that.”
Thanks to
@DrZeroCraic
for helping to debunk this misinformation about face masks.
Debunked: No, wearing a face mask does not 'disrupt your body's pH levels' and increase risk of cancer and other illnesses
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"If Black Lives Matter protestors were carrying guns and showed up to where white people were voting ... you'd understand my concerns." - Van Jones to Rick Santorum on CNN, in discussion about Trump supporters showing up with guns at count centres.
#Election2020
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It's not confusing: clothes are mandatory but not compulsory.
When explaining the lockdown retail rules, Minister of State at the Dept. of Enterprise
@Damien_English
has said that "clothes are not essential".
#rtept
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BREAKING: Mother and Baby Homes: Two test cases, involving Philomena Lee and Mary Harney, to be heard by High Court later this year
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It's such a huge honour to win the
@RafteryPrize
for
@RedactedLives
Mary Raftery was an incredible journalist and her legacy speaks for itself. It was wonderful to meet so many of her friends and former colleagues yesterday.
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Regina Doherty v strong on Barry Walsh comments or "bile" as she puts it; she fully supports Kate O'Connell and has apologised to Tara Flynn. She calls him an angry young man, adding: "This man is not fit to be sitting around a table...making decisions on our behalf."
#todaysor
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"We are nurses. Mighty, mighty nurses. What are we looking for? Pay restoration and safe staffing. It's not too much to ask for."
#StandWithNursesAndMidwives
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@HollyCairnsTD
says the Government’s Mother and Baby Homes redress scheme fails to consider human rights violations perpetrated on thousands of women & children.
Many issues yet to be examined - thousands of unexplained deaths, illegal adoption, racism & other forms of abuse.
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Forced and illegal adoption was widespread in Ireland, regardless of what the commission says, survivors have repeatedly told us.
Many told the commission too, and can't understand how their testimonies have been misinterpreted, misconstrued or ignored.
#MotherAndBabyHomes
'Illegitimate children could contaminate the morals of society so had to be hidden away': How the mother and baby home report 'failed' people who were illegally adopted
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International pop sensation
@cmatbaby
lifted the roof off the
@academydublin
last night.
A very special gig ✨
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My (Italian) flatmate and I are deciding what takeaway to order for Saturday (yes, we lead exciting lives).
One of the options comes with tiramisu as a dessert so we were looking up exactly how it's made.
It has been an *education*.
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A great appointment for
@TENI_Tweets
-
@Noah_Halpin
starts as Community Aid Officer on 1 March.
Noah will "oversee direct support for trans people navigating the National Gender Service and healthcare in Ireland".
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So sorry to hear this. Derek was an amazing activist who fought for many years for redress for survivors of Bethany Home & other institutions.
We had many conversations over the phone and finally got to meet earlier this year.
My thoughts go out to all his family and friends ❤️
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Tuam survivor Peter Mulryan continues to search for information about his two sisters. He does not know for sure if they died or were adopted:
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Mother and Baby Home redress scheme leaves many survivors "out in the cold, ignored in the present as they were abandoned in the past", James Smith writes
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Welcome news - HSE is recruiting a Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist who will lead a multidisciplinary team that will oversee healthcare for transgender adolescents.
CHI at Crumlin has recently appointed a Paediatric Endocrinologist who will also be part of the team.
'We can't keep relying on other countries': HSE begins hiring experts to oversee new health service for trans youth
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How long before we start hearing the phrase "a meaningful summer?"
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