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My life is woven with the stories of children & families I have cared deeply about in ‘Intensive Care’

Our shared humanity

published Aug 28 by a super team @HachetteIre & @ConorNagle

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This weekend marks once again the anniversary of the deaths of my beloved mother and father. At this time, the brilliant Seamus Heaney poem ‘Clearances’ at once breaks my heart and lifts up my soul.

As I chat away on here with people about their middle-aged Friday nights I'm increasingly furious over how obviously Twitter was strangling my feed. This ACTUALLY works as a social media platform. X was just bots, ads and fury. There are PEOPLE here.

This place does feel different - it is good to have a range of views but not the toxicity that has overwhelmed twitter

youtube.com/watch?v=huRv... beautiful performance - I had forgotten how wonderful a guitarist Mike Oldfield is

youtube.com/watch?v=nXbE... Summers End .. such a beautiful song, one of John Prine’s last … few others could touch such emotional depth with such simple words

youtube.com/watch?v=wbre... Sinead O’Connor was such a brilliant artist - this is from the depths of her soul

Real courage shown by Shenna Bellows, Maine’s Secretary of State. Sad that it should require courage

For years the holocaust represented the very worst of human evil, so bad it surely could never be repeated.

Shane McGowan and Sinead O’Connor - we have lost two pilgrim souls this year