Female with a conscience- concerned for the vulnerable victim-survivors of institutional abuse & mass graves PRO of Tuam Mother and Baby Home Alliance.
West of Ireland
Joined January 2019
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There are approximately forty @ThalidomideIre survivors still alive - they have lived every day facing challenges most people never have to face. Decades waiting for State apology that provides supports is inhumane. Apology promised by @SimonHarrisTD in 2026. #NoMoreDelays
Tánaiste says he’s keeping his promise for the apology this year on @rtenews “This Week” @RTENewsPaulC
Well done to #AnnaKavanagh @AllianceBirth for speaking for #Whistleblowers who report on #Safeguarding of vulnerable at summit in UK @UKParliament while citing cases in Irish courts.
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#ChildrenFirst
Huge respect to Anna Kavanagh @AllianceBirth for her powerful intervention at the Westminster summit on protecting the wellbeing of whistleblowers.
Anna raised the deeply disturbing case of ‘Patrick’, the failures surrounding Tusla and the family courts.
@OCallaghanJim @HMcEntee @breeda_murphy @TransparencyTF
1/4 Five years ago @JamesSugrue2 spoke to #RTE about his early life, fostered out to live on a farm with an elderly couple and their adult son in Kilgarvan, Co Kerry when he was just eight years old. He and his two brothers had been abandoned by their mother at County Home
in Killarney in 1959. James’s life story reads as one of triumph over adversity and yet he is excluded from #Redress despite the former Taoiseach and Tainiste, Leo Varadkar telling Dáil that he was struck by details of the suffering experienced by boarded-out boys written
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1/4. Congratulations to a worthy recipient of the Outstanding Contribution to Irish Medicine Award (2026) @AustinOCarroll1 👏was presented with the Award for his lifelong dedication to underprivileged communities. He continues to speak for underprivileged stating “If you do not
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Listen to @MichealMartinTD on #Security etc when >50 #PrimeMinisters will visit #Dublin for the 😔#EuropeanPolitical Community summit on Thursday followed followed on Friday by an informal meeting of the EU Council. @GardaTraffic are mounting their largest ever security operation
Taoiseach Micheál Martin on what the government is doing to keep Ireland safe.
#LateLate
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#RedressScheme
Two days ago in @OireachtasNews @ClaireKerrane posed questions related to the review of redress scheme currently underway to #EmerHigginsTD standing in for #Minister @NormaFoleyTD1
In the exchange we learned the review is only
#DailEireann #HouseWine
“Leinster House employees also availed of staff discount to purchase 50 bottles at €12 each”
thesun.ie/money/17209149/oir…
The Houses of the Oireachtas Service has signed a contract worth an estimated €400,000 plus VAT for the supply of its own-brand wine to Leinster House.
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#BombThreats
#Ireland @rtenews and other media groups evacuated this morning following bomb threats !
Virgin Media continues to broadcast
rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/110…
1/2 Today in #DailEireann @alankellylabour will bring the Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences (Amendment) Bill 2026 2nd stage before the House. It is an amendment updating original 2020 Act explicitly criminalising the generation + hosting of AI-generated
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1/3 Yesterday in #DailEireann we learned from @LiamQuaide that last Thursday & Friday in Cork “cancer operations were cancelled at short notice. Women admitted for mastectomies, some already in hospital gowns, were sent home. Colon, brain and prostate cancer operations were also
@johnlewishelp what have you done?
How did this 2026 #ChristmasAdvert pass thru various editing + executive stages before being released? Reflecting a sense of entitlement by ungrateful brats posing as grandchildren. No Christmas music, while killing a #RollingStones classic. ☹️
Nope...not for me! 😠
This years John Lewis Christmas ad, in summary.
Nan needs a hug, rude kids barge past her, ignoring her completely.
Kids don't like Nans childhood presents, so Nan goes out shopping to John Lewis to buy things they like to placate them.
Nan eventually gets her hug, when the spoilt grandkids get the presents they want.
Oh, and a rickshaw ride round London for good measure!
An absolutely dreadful story of kids attitudes towards the elderly today, and blatant consumerism - I for one, won't be shopping there this year! 🎁 🎅🎄
1/2 For those of you who missed #CiaraMageen’s funeral Mass, here is the link to watch back.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=_V8f1u…
A truly moving celebration of her life, courageous to the end. On being anointed with Holy Oils, Ciara perked up & said to 85 yr old Fr Martin Kelly
1/2 The #MotherAndBabyHome Institutions Payment Scheme has just been published by the Minister. the period between 1 January 2025 and 31 December 2025. There were 1,341 Notices of Determination (NoDs) issued and 1,523 applicants accepted
A business jet crashed in a neighbourhood in #Florida on Sunday, killing all on board. Here former Navy #TopGun fighter #Pilot Matthew "Whiz" Buckley who analyses and comments on such aviation emergencies reminds us nine souls lost their lives. 💔
May they rest in peace
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@Independent_ie have today devoted their front page to
Irish Olympian #CiaraMageen who passed away yesterday. Ciara got the devastating news last year that she had terminal cancer but it didn’t hold her back as she sought to fit as much living in the time she had left. #RIP💔
The funeral mass for Irish Olympian #CiaraMageean will be held at 2pm tomorrow at St Patrick's Church in Ballyphilip, Co. Down followed by burial in the adjoining cemetery. Today Ciara is lying in repose at her parents' home on Ballyphilip Road in Portaferry. #RIP 💔🙏
1/16 Today marks ten years since we gathered at the site of the #Tuam #MotherAndBabyHome - #AllSoulsDay 2nd November 2016 for a candlelit vigil recalling 796 infants lost at the site for whom there are no burial records. Our members & public carried a lighted candle (see pic)
as we walked in procession from the site to #Tuam Square and into the Town Hall where artists displayed their work dedicated to the lost children, exquisite pieces framed in love. Darkness was descending as we began our walk and streetlight & candlelight showed us
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Fair play to @albertdolan_ - introducing a Bill to #DailEireann to #FollowTheMoney - public funds spent by #Government departments + local authorities.
If you’re not already following him, you should.
I got into politics to effect change. I will be bringing forward my bill in the coming weeks to finish the job. The Tender to Payment (Public Spending Transparency) Bill 2026 would require every euro of public money to be traceable from tender, through award, contract, purchase order and invoice, to payment. With one ID, one ledger, machine-readable, open to everyone.
Why I think this matters:
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And what it looks like in practice: statespend.ie (3/8)
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A Former @fiannafailparty TD who held three ministerial portfolios and served as an MEP to 2004, Gerry Collins from Limerick has died at the age of eighty-eight. His father James John Collins was a TD to 1967 and Gerry took his seat following his death.
#RIP
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Front page of @TheSundayIndo
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“State spends €14,000 a month for family in emergency housing.”
One family: more than 500 families have been in emergency accommodation in hotels & B+Bs in Dublin for two years+ Last August there were 1899 families in emergency accomm
