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This budget has failed to prioritise people with disabilities, childcare, the thousands of children who are homeless, and the hundreds of thousands of people on hospital waiting lists.
📺 I will deliver our #Budget2026 response with
Ged Nash shortly 👇
oireachtas.ie/en/oireachta...
📺 I will deliver our #Budget2026 response with
Ged Nash shortly 👇
oireachtas.ie/en/oireachta...
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oireachtas.ie
October 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
This budget has failed to prioritise people with disabilities, childcare, the thousands of children who are homeless, and the hundreds of thousands of people on hospital waiting lists.
📺 I will deliver our #Budget2026 response with
Ged Nash shortly 👇
oireachtas.ie/en/oireachta...
📺 I will deliver our #Budget2026 response with
Ged Nash shortly 👇
oireachtas.ie/en/oireachta...
What is happening in the Arts?
Great that the Basic income will be retained and expanded.
But who is losing out?
There is a cut to current funding to arts and culture spending.
This is real backward step. #budget2026
Great that the Basic income will be retained and expanded.
But who is losing out?
There is a cut to current funding to arts and culture spending.
This is real backward step. #budget2026
October 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
What is happening in the Arts?
Great that the Basic income will be retained and expanded.
But who is losing out?
There is a cut to current funding to arts and culture spending.
This is real backward step. #budget2026
Great that the Basic income will be retained and expanded.
But who is losing out?
There is a cut to current funding to arts and culture spending.
This is real backward step. #budget2026
📣 Childcare! Remember all those election promises!
None here today.
More places ❌
Fees to reduce to €200 per month ❌
And the “Building Blocks” scheme to create more places- not a single € paid out. It was supposed to be done last March. Will be lucky to have it next September. #budget2026
None here today.
More places ❌
Fees to reduce to €200 per month ❌
And the “Building Blocks” scheme to create more places- not a single € paid out. It was supposed to be done last March. Will be lucky to have it next September. #budget2026
October 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
📣 Childcare! Remember all those election promises!
None here today.
More places ❌
Fees to reduce to €200 per month ❌
And the “Building Blocks” scheme to create more places- not a single € paid out. It was supposed to be done last March. Will be lucky to have it next September. #budget2026
None here today.
More places ❌
Fees to reduce to €200 per month ❌
And the “Building Blocks” scheme to create more places- not a single € paid out. It was supposed to be done last March. Will be lucky to have it next September. #budget2026
Spot on👇
There are small few stations who are trying- RTÉ, Cork’s Red fm, Midwest
But they are far too many who don’t
Working with the brilliant Linda Coogan Byrne of WhyNotHer we produced legislation in 2022 to ensure gender diversity in broadcasting.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
There are small few stations who are trying- RTÉ, Cork’s Red fm, Midwest
But they are far too many who don’t
Working with the brilliant Linda Coogan Byrne of WhyNotHer we produced legislation in 2022 to ensure gender diversity in broadcasting.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Una Mullally: Why did CMAT have to sell out the 3Arena before she could get proper exposure on Irish radio?
We need to amplify Irish artists on Irish radio – not from a position of territorialism or nationalism, but from one of support and pride
www.irishtimes.com
July 21, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Spot on👇
There are small few stations who are trying- RTÉ, Cork’s Red fm, Midwest
But they are far too many who don’t
Working with the brilliant Linda Coogan Byrne of WhyNotHer we produced legislation in 2022 to ensure gender diversity in broadcasting.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
There are small few stations who are trying- RTÉ, Cork’s Red fm, Midwest
But they are far too many who don’t
Working with the brilliant Linda Coogan Byrne of WhyNotHer we produced legislation in 2022 to ensure gender diversity in broadcasting.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
State spends €36m on brand new 100 bed building
But no money to open almost half the beds🙄
128 homeless persons died in 2021- vast majority had substance abuse history. Most of the deaths- preventable.
I raised it in Dáil on Wed.
This saves lives👇
jrnl.ie/6713347
But no money to open almost half the beds🙄
128 homeless persons died in 2021- vast majority had substance abuse history. Most of the deaths- preventable.
I raised it in Dáil on Wed.
This saves lives👇
jrnl.ie/6713347
'Life-saving' 100-bed addiction rehabilitation facility running at half capacity due to funding gap
The Dublin Simon Community, which runs the facility, said it not only saves lives, but taxpayer money.
jrnl.ie
May 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
State spends €36m on brand new 100 bed building
But no money to open almost half the beds🙄
128 homeless persons died in 2021- vast majority had substance abuse history. Most of the deaths- preventable.
I raised it in Dáil on Wed.
This saves lives👇
jrnl.ie/6713347
But no money to open almost half the beds🙄
128 homeless persons died in 2021- vast majority had substance abuse history. Most of the deaths- preventable.
I raised it in Dáil on Wed.
This saves lives👇
jrnl.ie/6713347
We just don’t join the dots here in this country
📍25% delay visiting GP cause of costs
📍GP shortages mean some can’t get GP,others wait ages for appointment
And then INMO trolley figures today showed worst Feb on record..since 2004
We need more 🛌 &more👩⚕️ but lack of primary care is also reason
📍25% delay visiting GP cause of costs
📍GP shortages mean some can’t get GP,others wait ages for appointment
And then INMO trolley figures today showed worst Feb on record..since 2004
We need more 🛌 &more👩⚕️ but lack of primary care is also reason
March 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
We just don’t join the dots here in this country
📍25% delay visiting GP cause of costs
📍GP shortages mean some can’t get GP,others wait ages for appointment
And then INMO trolley figures today showed worst Feb on record..since 2004
We need more 🛌 &more👩⚕️ but lack of primary care is also reason
📍25% delay visiting GP cause of costs
📍GP shortages mean some can’t get GP,others wait ages for appointment
And then INMO trolley figures today showed worst Feb on record..since 2004
We need more 🛌 &more👩⚕️ but lack of primary care is also reason
Meta is playing with people’s lives and democracy here.
For years, they argued content moderators were the great defence against the worst impacts of their recommender systems.
This sets Meta on collision course with EU’s digital services act.
' jrnl.ie/6587323
For years, they argued content moderators were the great defence against the worst impacts of their recommender systems.
This sets Meta on collision course with EU’s digital services act.
' jrnl.ie/6587323
Meta says it is killing off its third-party fact-checking programme 'starting in the US'
The programme is to be replaced with X’s model of Community Notes.
jrnl.ie
January 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Meta is playing with people’s lives and democracy here.
For years, they argued content moderators were the great defence against the worst impacts of their recommender systems.
This sets Meta on collision course with EU’s digital services act.
' jrnl.ie/6587323
For years, they argued content moderators were the great defence against the worst impacts of their recommender systems.
This sets Meta on collision course with EU’s digital services act.
' jrnl.ie/6587323
Theirs was a fight for over 25 years for the thousands of young women wronged in our country.
Very sad that Rosie McKinney has left our world and our hearts go out to her daughter, our beloved Mags.
She was indomitable in spirit right to the end.
www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
Very sad that Rosie McKinney has left our world and our hearts go out to her daughter, our beloved Mags.
She was indomitable in spirit right to the end.
www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
Mother and baby home campaigner who threatened to set the dogs on nuns passes away
Galway native Rosie McKinney, who has passed away aged 86, was one of the youngest women to enter the Tuam mother and baby home when she was just 15 years old
www.irishexaminer.com
January 2, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Theirs was a fight for over 25 years for the thousands of young women wronged in our country.
Very sad that Rosie McKinney has left our world and our hearts go out to her daughter, our beloved Mags.
She was indomitable in spirit right to the end.
www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
Very sad that Rosie McKinney has left our world and our hearts go out to her daughter, our beloved Mags.
She was indomitable in spirit right to the end.
www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...
In an Ireland of surpluses in the public finances, this is our heartbreaking reality 👇
It’s shocking
But we shouldn’t be shocked.
So many struggling in silence out there. Huge credit to Capuchins and others for giving people some dignity.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...
It’s shocking
But we shouldn’t be shocked.
So many struggling in silence out there. Huge credit to Capuchins and others for giving people some dignity.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...
‘We have never run out this early’: People ‘distraught’ after missing out on Capuchin Christmas food parcel tickets
People ‘distraught’ on missing out after all 3,000 parcels are distributed by shortly after 9.30am
www.irishtimes.com
December 12, 2024 at 7:56 AM
In an Ireland of surpluses in the public finances, this is our heartbreaking reality 👇
It’s shocking
But we shouldn’t be shocked.
So many struggling in silence out there. Huge credit to Capuchins and others for giving people some dignity.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...
It’s shocking
But we shouldn’t be shocked.
So many struggling in silence out there. Huge credit to Capuchins and others for giving people some dignity.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...