In a restaurant in Bordeaux with colleague. He asked for well done steak. Waiter told him to have chicken. He asked for butter, “for the bread?” “Yeah. “No”. At the end of the meal waiter asked if we’d like coffee. Colleague asked for cappuccino… “No. That’s for breakfast” 😂
My mam died last night. She was diagnosed with vascular dementia 7 years ago, so we actually lost her a long time ago. We really need to do something about
#DignityInDying
in Ireland. RIP Mam
The Irish government, composed of 2 parties that have been in power since the foundation of the state, say that the state of the health service is not their fault, as they "inherited" it. From whom? The British ?
@fiannafailparty
@FineGael
In 1995, Ireland had a similar hot spell to the one you're having now. Glorious sunshine for weeks. It lasted until September 4th, when it absolutely bucketed rain for the whole day. That was our wedding day 😁
in 1992, sinead o’connor shocked the producers of SNL when at the end of her performance, she tore up a photo of the pope to protest child sex abuse in the church. her career was totally derailed and the church’s abuse did not re-enter the national spotlight for another 10 years
#RoeVsWade
Ireland had a constitutional abortion ban for 35 years. We have seen:
-a young woman with an inevitable miscarriage die from sepsis
-pregnant women die from treatable cancer
-suicidal rape victims force fed & force caesareaned
-teenage rape victim forcibly detained
We left Ireland for Bordeaux in 2001, when this fella was 3. He’s always wanted to go and live in Ireland, and now, he’s on the ferry to rosslare, going to live in Tuam with his beautiful girlfriend. Very proud ☺️
My 21yo student son pays €800pm for a 1 bed apt in Luxembourg w security of tenure. He gets a €13k pa grant/loan &can hold down a job for 20 hours per week paying €14ph. He has free public transport, free functioning healthcare. Irish people are being gaslit
I’ve heard lots of FFFGLAB spokes people saying voters were “stupid” to believe that any party can deliver homes for all, a decent healthcare system, decent public transport, decent education system & decent retirement I live in Luxembourg 🇱🇺. Here’s a few facts about life here:
My mam was diagnosed with vascular dementia in 2016. Since then, she’s known only confusion & distress. A woman so loved, knows no love, only strangers & danger.
We really need to have a serious conversation about dignity in dying in Ireland 🇮🇪
I spoke earlier on about my mam being a feminist, without knowing it. She used to drive to newry and buy condoms to distribute to the women in our estate
My mam died last night. She was diagnosed with vascular dementia 7 years ago, so we actually lost her a long time ago. We really need to do something about
#DignityInDying
in Ireland. RIP Mam
I’ve worked in procurement in several sectors for 30 years. I have NEVER seen a contract without defined pricing, exact delivery dates, and legally binding penalties for breaching either. It would be kind to call the children’s hospital
#shambolic
Stephen Donnelly confirms there's no agreed completion date for new children's hospital
Cost of the hospital will be at least €2bn.
2016,
@LeoVaradkar
said cost would be €650M insisting it would open by 2020 'unless an asteroid hit the planet'
#NCH
One great thing about being home this weekend was experiencing how diverse
#ireland
is now. Our butcher was Pakistani (left home same time we did) the hotel receptionist was Zambian, a waitress was Paraguayan, another Turkish.
#IrelandisFull
of beautiful people who make it better
We’ve seen 200k women travel to a foreign country in order to have an abortion.
We’ve seen thousands of Irish women use imported abortion pills to end their unwanted pregnancies
#RoeVsWade
#Ireland
is the most un dog friendly country I’ve ever come across. Clodagh and I have just been asked to leave the entrance to the Eyre sq shopping centre where we were sheltering from the pissing rain
And please allow me to add that the fight to achieve our currently imperfect abortion legislation would never have been achieved without our trans, non binary or all other LGBTQIA+ allies. Ireland’s freedom has always been dependent on intersection and inclusion
It’s a very heartbreaking evening. Very long queue and we are still here. 450 hot meals, pastries, fruits and drinks gone. A big massive thank you to all our donors. Your support means so much!
#homelessness
#poverty
President Michael D Higgins has strongly criticised the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen for comments on the Middle East conflict which she made on a visit to Israel last Friday | Read more:
I’m amazed at all this « return to office » talk. People have worked at home happily & productively for 2 years. Why would you force the into cars (public transport is not an option for most in 🇮🇪 ) to pollute and contest, entirely unnecessarily?
@greenparty_ie
? It makes no sense
I’ve worked in procurement for 25 years. If I awarded a contract for paper clips without proper assessment I’d be fired. But hey, it’s only womens lives we’re talking about
Far right outside my house again. This time they decided to ring the bell. I'm glad I checked before I answered.
Why do they always come at my baby's bedtime?
@cubedreamer
@rtenews
Refusal to use a student’s preferred pronouns is the ultimate arrogance. Thankfully, irelands laws protect this student. I hope they feel protected by their family, their school and our laws
Let's be clear, Eamonn Ryan falling asleep is not the issue. The real problem is that he woke up and voted against giving people a real living wage.
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
The fact that Stephen Donnelly has spent his Saturday afternoon replying to people on Twitter shows that we have them rattled. We need to keep up the pressure
#MakeNMHOurs
We have decided that we're going to move back to Ireland this year. The fantastic and great value for money public transport, low personal taxation and affordable housing really swung it for us.
We’ve just canceled the honeymoon we wanted 25 years ago but couldn’t have cos we were penniless. Fuck you covid (I know it’s small sacrifice. Don’t @ me)
For years they told us there was no support for a referendum. They told us to wait. They told us we were SHRILL. They told us the CA recs would be watered down. They said there was no broad support beyond for rape &
#FFA
. GET OUT! VOTE! PROVE THEM WRONG
#8thref
#Together4Yes
@3athalete
People don’t tip because wait staff are paid a living wage with all the benefits that other workers get (pension, healthcare, sick pay, paid holidays). We Europeans find it disgusting that staff in America have to depend on discretionary payments from customers to survive
Happy international women’s day, the first where women in the republic of Ireland have access to the full range of healthcare. Let’s hope that next year we can say the same for our sisters in the north
#extend67
#TheNorthIsNext
FYI, we got antigen tests the other day from Amazon Germany, €48.99 for a pack of 25. Site is also in English. We ordered on 26/12, arrived today. Delivery to Ireland won’t be a problem
My son & his lovely girlfriend are moving to Galway in June. He’s a plumber & she’ll be studying patisserie part time in GMIT. They’re both looking for jobs and a place to live within 30 mins of Galway city. If you hear of anything please let me know 😊
Russia’s attacks against civilian infrastructure, especially electricity, are war crimes.
Cutting off men, women, children of water, electricity and heating with winter coming - these are acts of pure terror.
And we have to call it as such.
I remember leaving the hospital via the back stairs, our baby in his little coffin in a gym bag. And the next day, my dad driving us to the cemetery, the white coffin between my wife & I on the back seat. I can’t imagine having to leave him behind in another country
#together4yes
The grief of losing your baby while you are still pregnant is like no other. Trying to come to terms with a loss that has not yet happened, you are left reaching for something that you will never hold.
@TFMRIRE
#repealthe8th
#Galway
people !Our son David & his lovely partner started a bakery in Tuam last week. The artisanal sourdough & authentic French pastries are flying out the door every day! Check out
@MaysPlaceGalway
on Instagram!
The 8th amendment has been here for 35 years. That’s a lot of time for
#LoveBothVoteNO
@ionainstitute
to organise perinatal hospices, baby boxes, & to fight for better outcomes for crisis pregnancies. Have we seen them do it? Can they point to any initiative on their part?
Funny, I don’t recognize any of these
#SaveOurSpaces
gowls from when we were fighting for reproductive rights I Ireland (north and south). I do remember our
#trans
siblings standing arm in arm with us though. We will always stand with them! 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
« the way the government treats refugees is very instructive. It shows you how they would treat the rest of us if they thought they could get away with it »
Hi all. Our friends in Iona are looking for opinions on how sex Ed should be delivered in Irish schools. I think we should tell them what we think.
@GrainneFallon
P McVerry has accurately forecast every step of irelands journey to homelessness catastrophe &beyond (&was ridiculed for projecting 10k homeless). Y’day he projected 15k homeless by the next general election. 15k. In the 2nd richest country in the EU
#FFG
80 years ago tomorrow, WWII began. It was caused by people who didn’t think that those of different race, beliefs or sexuality had a right to live in “our” society or “our” country. They thought that people should “take our country back”. Sound familiar?
We are aware that remembering the tragedy of
#Auschwitz
is not easy. And yet, it is our duty & responsibility to remember.
We remember about this awful times to commemorate the victims. But this history is also a warning of what human hatred may bring.
Follow
@AuschwitzMuseum
.
@Bulent90275
If you prefer a hamburger over a cassoulet, boeuf bourguignon, salade landaise, moules à la crème, steak Rossini or a simple confit de canard with fries… then I feel terribly sorry for you
Amazing that so many who agreed with us on
#TrustWomen
in 2018 are telling women who express an opinion on THEIR hospital to get back in their box. « Doctor knows best » doesn’t cut it any more
#MakeNMHOurs
@OurMatHosp
'Sweet Jesus, what have we done as women to allow somebody like this speak in our name & attempt to reassure us that we own this hospital and we go through this labyrinthine thing, for what ? To serve the Interests of SVHG '
@catherinegalway
#NMH
Remember during
#marref
when the antis were predicting “BABIES ON DEMAND! for the gays”. Or in 1997 when they screamed “DIVORCE ON DEMAND!! &uppity women will take the farm!!” ... sound familiar?
Complete &utter nonsense yet again from this charlatan. We've had free (&fantastic) public transport in Luxembourg for 3 years & it has been a huge success
@Killybegsgirl
Was once in a restaurant in Bordeaux with a fella from mount Charles. He says « can I have a steak, cooked all the way through please? ». The waiter replied « non! You can have chicken! »
It was an extremely difficult night with a yellow warning storm raging. We reached the GPO with sleeping bags, tents, hygiene packs, and 500 hot meals. We also gave out sandwiches, fruit, vegetables, crisps, protein bars, and hot drinks.
The queue stretched from the GPO to
Very disappointed in Kellie Harrington here. Given lots of opportunities to support migrants and refugees and point blank refuses.
Particularly disappointing given the racial diversity of all our next Olympic hopefuls
#irelandforall
Fine Gael TDs are getting more emails on transgender issues than on the eviction ban, a private party meeting has been told.
Calls for a wider debate within the party on trans issues during what sources described as a “bizarre” and “weird” discussion
More on
@Independent_ie
The minim wage is c€2k a month & you pay practically zero tax on that. Child allowance is c€600 for 2 kids, per month. I live in a 4 bed apt, 20 mins from the city & pay 1800 pm. More than affordable for 2 working adults with 2 kids.
The photo shows the amount of Airbnb properties available for 2 adults and 2 children in Ireland. Homelessness would be halved if we banned short term let’s in family homes
Today, Clodagh decided she needed to escape under the back gate to introduce herself to the builders working behind the house. Naturally, while they were initially afraid of such a fierce animal, she won them over with her hypnotic eyes
Had a chat with my 84yo dad today. I nervously told him I was canvassing in this week for the referendum. “Is that the women’s right thing?”. Yes it is dad, yes it is.
#Together4Yes
As usual, Keith is incorrect. Before the 93 single Europe act the same customs procedures applied across all of eu. Also,as someone who crossed the border twice a week, I can tell him that the machine guns, ID checks, searches& body frisks made it the hardest of borders.
Those of us who have worked in international trade know there was never a hard Irish border. There was a customs check, occasionally with security. There was never passport checking or goods manifest checking so it was a regulated border NOT a hard border.
Get your facts straight
A country with record low unemployment, record high GDP, but also record homelessness, child poverty, trolley numbers , carbon emissions coupled with awful public transport, & no plan for improvement.
And he’s boasting
The unemployment rate is below 4% for the first time since 2001. We are building more houses now than any time since 2008.
Ireland’s post Covid economic recovery has been world-leading. Now we are turning that recovery into real progress in housing.