Patricia Carey
patriciac.bsky.social
Patricia Carey
@patriciac.bsky.social
Running Slow , Thinking Fast 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🇮🇪🏳️‍⚧️
Special Advocate for Survivors of Institutional Abuse
Be Kind
Listening Learning
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Thirty-five thousand children.

The entire population of Leitrim is just over 35,000.

This figure, the most recent estimate of the number of Ukrainian children kidnapped by Russians, was given by Nathaniel Raymond, director at the Humanitarian Research Lab at Yale:
open.spotify.com/episode/3Y2i...
July 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM
June 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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June 21, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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A 33-year-old Democratic Socialist will become the next mayor of NYC and the worst, most corrupt people in the USA are losing their minds.

God loves to see it.
June 27, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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New exhibition, LAB gallery, Dublin: What does it mean to know?
Sinead McCann & I have two sculptural pieces. They're about Magdalene Laundries, but not the past. They are about the present, today, us, and the ways we remember (and misremember)the Laundries dublincityartsoffice.ie/programmes-p...
What does it mean to know? | Dublin City Council Arts Office
Magdalene Laundries were once vast islands of abandonment marking our Irish social landscape. They are closed now, but their legacies linger. When the gates were locked for the last time in 1996,...
dublincityartsoffice.ie
May 29, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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This coming Sunday — June 29th — 2pm — Bessbro gathering — we will be especially remembering our brilliant colleague Mari Steed.
June 22, 2025 at 10:07 AM
The state has been ignoring this since the failure of the Retention of Records Bill 2019. Legislation preserving and regularising the CICA RIRB and McAleese inquiry records can and should proceed the establishment of the National Centre for Research and Remembrance www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
Thousands of child abuse records kept in storage costing €80,000 a year
Long-promised law to transfer documents to the National Archives of Ireland has not been passed
www.irishtimes.com
June 9, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Hi, I’m God.

Healthcare is a human right.

Love,

God
May 30, 2025 at 8:49 PM
May 23, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Red sky Blackrock
May 18, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Cats of Dublin
May 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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On February 1, 2014, for the show’s final performance, Panti was the invited guest. A key moment in Ireland’s fight for same-sex marriage, we’ll let the speech do the rest of the talking for us.

Watch the full version of Panti’s Noble Call: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXay...
Panti's Noble Call at the Abbey Theatre - WITH SUBTITLES
YouTube video by rory oneill
www.youtube.com
May 4, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.
April 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Don't look away
A Haitian woman who was among those held in allegedly inhumane conditions has died after more than 10 weeks in immigration custody.

At least six others have died in ICE custody in fiscal 2025, which began in October, ICE data shows.
Haitian woman dies in US immigration detention
At least six others have died in ICE custody in fiscal 2025, which began in October, ICE data shows.
www.usatoday.com
April 30, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Princess and prince
April 29, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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The Bessboro Support Group are organising the Annual Commemoration. 923+children & 31 women died.The resting place of the majority is unknown & the grounds are under threat of housing developments where it is likely some r buried. Please help us commemorate them on the 29th June.
#MotherAndBabyHomes
April 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Please support this years #BessboroCommemoration. Our 11th year highlighting that the burial place of 859+children& women is unknown.The grounds of #Bessboro are under threat of being developed.

In 2018 we were privileged to have Cara O’Sullivan sing for us.RIP
#MotherAndBabyHomes #UmmarkedGraves
April 26, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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#author #writingcommunity #ireland #amagdalenerose #booklaunch

Announcing the Global Launch of my book: A Magdalene Rose

If you are in the neighbourhood, it would be great to see you there!
April 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Van Hollen: And it's also important that people understand this case is not just about one man. It's about protecting the constitutional rights of everybody who resides in the United States of America.
April 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
True
April 17, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Thank you for todays books
More Sandi posts anon
Raven Rocks
If espionage intrigues you⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

We have the book pre-ordered, let us know if you'd like a copy when it's published
Ahead of my book on the history of Russia's Illegals programme coming out next week, here's a taste in Guardian Longread form.

‘I am not who you think I am’: how a deep-cover KGB spy recruited his own son

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ap...
April 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Breaking News: The Trump administration moved to cancel lawfully obtained Social Security numbers in an effort to pressure immigrants to “self deport” by cutting people off from using crucial financial services like bank accounts and credit cards, along with their access to government benefits.
Pushing ‘Self-Deportation,’ Trump White House Moves to Cut Migrants’ Social Security
By placing migrants in Social Security’s “death master file,” the Trump administration is seeking to cut off their access to credit cards, bank accounts and other financial services.
www.nytimes.com
April 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Can God get an amen?
Blessed Be the Protesters!
Way to go, good humans!
www.thegodpodcast.com
April 5, 2025 at 10:24 PM