The Struggle Is Wheel
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Highlighting our own experiences of ♿adventures & ableism as a couple in Ireland 🧭 Spinal Cord Injury
Ireland
Joined December 2019
Dec 13th 🗓️🎄#AccessibleAdvent Questioning OUR realigned 🅿️space doesn't mean we don't recognise the need for SAFE cycle lanes. We need a SAFE exit. Where is OUR dropped kerb crossing on these #ParkingProtected cycle lanes? Buffer zone narrower than OUR access aisles? Come on.
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Hey @MichealMartinTD it’s very kind of you to think of the family in mourning after the death of their loved one. It’s a pity we weren’t given the same level of thought, time or respect however. #JusticeForHarvey
My thoughts and prayers go to the family and loved ones of Charlie Kirk after his horrific murder in Utah. We think especially of his wife and young children today. There is no place for the gun in politics, no justification for violence in democratic debate.
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After reducing my hours to one day a week, I appealed the decision to stop my Disability Allowance. As of this week, it has been reinstated!….. To the tune of €8.50 per week.
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.@SingaporeAir broke my wheelchair wheels. It isn't cosmetic. They've entirely torn through the shrink wrap protecting the structural integrity of the loop wheels. They are no longer waterproof.
Neither @SingaporeAir nor @AerLingus know where my wheelchair is. I need it to work, to live, to parent. Lads it's actually gone. I'm leaving the airport without my wheelchair. I am so broken. So so very broken.
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Our 2 new fav step-free spots out in the Burren.. (of all places) Chocolatier @HazelMountainCh & @BurrenPerfumery #Clare #WheelchairUser #Accessibility
@DiscoverIreland @Failte_Ireland
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Neither @SingaporeAir nor @AerLingus know where my wheelchair is. I need it to work, to live, to parent. Lads it's actually gone. I'm leaving the airport without my wheelchair. I am so broken. So so very broken.
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Got off this bus in Leeds without realising my🦼and I were in a cycle lane. With ramp deployed it’s impossible to be anywhere else nor to see 🚴♀️ coming from inside the bus. Dangerous infrastructure that needs to be halted by Bus Services (No 2) Bill on Wednesday.#TakingTheDis
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This was launched today. We are pouring over it. Lots of “aspiration”. One thing, we are looking for but we can’t find out who the consultation groups were in the forming of this document. There is reference to the public consultations we attended but which were farcical
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Children with disabilities are being taken to veterinary clinics or pet shops to be weighed due to limited access to specialist chair scales. One mother, Ciara Dunne, has called for all children’s disability network teams (CDNTs) to be issued with chair scales, saying many
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♿Funny, I haven't seen this before. Anchor points to secure a wheelchair in case of rough weather on a ferry. I'll have to check on the way back if this is a four-point tiedown or just a two-point system 🚢 #Accessibility #FerryTravel #Travel #Wheelchair @BrittanyFerries
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Why? @RTERadio1 wall-to-wall coverage this morning of Taylor Swift’s engagement. Would be great to see the same level of attention for children failed by @CHI_Ireland #JusticeForHarvey @BernardGloster @CarrollJennifer
@SBH_PAG @AccessForAll7 #BackUs
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#JusticeForHarvey #ResignHarris Sad week for whom exactly Sean. It's certainly been a Deservedly Torrid week for Simple @SimonHarrisTD & @FineGael A sad few weeks for Harvey's family not that it's registered with your party & Colleagues https://t.co/vMa3xsYiZU
Heading for #BéalNaBláth today for oration by Minister Jennifer Carroll McNeill , with a line from a song which #RobbieWilliams & the packed @CrokePark audience , sang so well last night , ringing in my head, ‘I’m here to make a sad week better’ 💪💪
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#JusticeForHarvey march was not in memory. It was a call to Action for all the children still waiting. Harvey doesn't get justice, he was failed and he paid the ultimate sacrifice.
More than 1,000 people have turned out for a march in Dublin in memory of nine-year-old Harvey Morrison Sherratt, who had spina bifida and scoliosis and died last month
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I’ve never seen such a crowd for a disability justice demonstration! One with a beautiful boy who was failed by the state at the very centre of it!!! #JusticeForHarvey
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Home now. The traveling & walking was hard, but for Brendan, Harvey, & all the children waiting or who suffered waiting, it was worth it! May this lead to change, FINALLY! #JusticeForHarvey #Scoliosis @ProfoundIreland PS: It was wonderful to see old friends & meet new ones💜
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Great turnout for #JusticeForHarvey & all children & families subject to state enabled violence 🙏 Dublin, Ireland now
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This 👇👇👇👇 I will never forget the day I sat in a CHI hospital and was told by a senior member of management. "You know other children are going to suffer because the lot of you kicked up such a fuss"
@UnaKeightley @CHI_Ireland I firmly believe & the evidence/findings in the published & unpublished reports back this up, a decision was made a long time ago at the top & by certain Consultants to not provide cohesive & dedicated care to SB children & to age them out because - resource heavy - too disabled
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And just like that his last ever SPINA BIFIDA clinic @TempleStreetHos 16 years old considered an adult and (kicked out) transitioned to the non existent adult services, from one broken system to the next. The chance we had at some regular scannning gone @SBH_PAG @scolionetwork
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Not a word from the Taoiseach or the Minister for Health on the death of Harvey Morrison Sherratt. The whole country has heard of his passing but not a word for those responsible for our health service that utterly failed him. And continues to fail so many others. He deserved
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✨Please read and share to all platforms✨ Firstly myself and @Stephen63224725 want to say thank you for the massive amount of support we have been shown since Harvey’s passing. To say it has been an overwhelming time would be a massive understatement. This march on Saturday is
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