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“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”Maya Angelou

Cork, Ireland

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Colette Kelleher

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6 years

My lovely son is coming #hometovote . This poor student used his birthday money to buy plane ticket home. Just messaged me "we will get you to the Emerald City on Friday" ❤️ He will #voteyes with his Dad. For his sister, his Mum & women of Ireland #togetherforyes @Men4Yes

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6 years

My 'drop of golden' son just landed in Cork airport. He is #hometovote and will be voting YES for his sister, YES his mum & YES for a better day for women and a kinder Ireland. Our family all #TogetherForYes #together2vote @CorkTogether4Y

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@KateFlood This is an incredible reach out to women & children by women all over England tonight. Moving but so awful that it’s needed. Post match domestic abuse very real. @KateFlood

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6 years

Give me strength. Never heard Iona Institute/No side speaking out about 3.5k homeless children, waiting lists for children with disabilities or mental health or help for lone parents. All I think of is Bessborough & the septic tanks of Tuam. #VoteYes to end hypocrisy Friday

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When your heart just isn’t in it anymore. #repealthe8th

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Today is my last day as a member of the 25th Seanad. Over the last four years in Seanad Éireann I did my best to put the honour and gift of my appointment into public service for the benefit of the people and groups whose lives and daily struggles are often not seen or heard.

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@Theholisticpsyc @VKennefick Assume you include fathers too as parents not just mothers? Are you challenging glorification of “working dads” or the push of long hours culture? Or housing policies that require both parents to work long hoursor the poverty of non working parents? What did you do yourself?

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Finland is a small country like Ireland. If homelessness can be ended there, it can end here. It’s all about our priorities, having the right policies and political will

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0.08% of population experience homelessness in Finland according to latest official PIT count. This includes people forced to stay with family/friends because of lack of alternative housing. Who does better??

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The 8th amendment doesn’t stop Irish women having abortions. It just stops Irish women having legal abortions in Ireland. #repealthe8th

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4 years

Delighted that @Love1solidarity appointed to Seanad. Eileen as a proud traveller woman & she brings with her a crucial perspective. Know she will be a brave & important voice for change. Well done @MichealMartinTD . Best wishes to all the other Taoiseach’s nominees too

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A big thank you to all who helped and accompanied me on this unexpected Seanad journey. Mol an obair atá déanta agus an obair atá le déanamh!

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@UCCSUWelfare I started @UCC 42 years ago today. Money was tight but never ever this bad. Appalled UCC students now need a food bank. But with for profit student accommodation, rents out control & fee hikes not surprised. These young people will not FORGIVE or FORGET. Government beware @UCCSU

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5 years

Great to host so many Women Traveller Activists at Leinster House today. Legends all fighting everyday for Traveller rights. By next visit hope @Taoiseach will have appointed Traveller to Seanad Eireann ⁦ @itmtrav ⁩

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@LiqaDr @RuthCoppingerSP @HSELive @CathyReilly @griffinniamh @TrainUs4Ireland @_IHREC @rtenews @tierneysimon @SimonHarrisTD @gardainfo This is just disgusting behaviour and that landlord should be arrested. Terrifying and insulting . I’m ashamed that such behaviour is happening in Ireland and isn’t being stopped.

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With fall of Kabul & humanitarian crisis unfolding, it’s time more than ever for more humane #familyreunifucation laws in Ireland. I introduced bill in Seanad 2017, now championed by @ThomasPringleTD . Time to pass this bill @NascIreland @OxfamIreland @IrishRefugeeCo @SeanadCEG

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3 years

Thank you @ThomasPringleTD and @NormaFoleyTD1 & all the TDs @bridsmithTD @MickBarryTD @AodhanORiordain who supported passage of Traveller Culture & History in Education Bill through to second stage in Dáil. An important milestone. @Love1solidarity @SeanadCEG @Oeiny @itmtrav

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2 years

@LeoVaradkar Any renters or under 30’s here? These are the people whose futures are being are robbed. Not holding my breath tbh

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@SbellsDell @LucyNorrish40 Don’t think it’s fair to comment about people about their appearance or how old they look. All too often a judgement of women in politics. Plenty of other things to criticise like polices, politics and being a member of a party that has done so much damage

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4 years

Travellers must be central to conversations about racism

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2 years

If you only read one thing today let it be this. Heartstoppingly beautiful. Thank you ⁦ @TadhgCoakley ⁩

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Tadhg Coakley: ‘I don’t have a daughter or a son. I will never pass on my father’s kiss’

Sport offers moments of shared intimacy, joy and love - I am writing to pass this on

www.irishtimes.com

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4 years

“Without ⁦ @CorkLifeCentre ⁩ I wouldn’t be here today” past pupil Rhys Wooten to members of Joint Oireachtas Cttee for Education today

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3 years

One more sleep to my first vaccination in Cork City Hall tomorrow. Feeling very lucky and so blessed 🍀

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4 years

Remembering the dead of Srebrenica today. 25 years since a terrible slaughter of men and boys because of their religion. Visited the graves when on ⁦a Council of Europe monitor. Sadness hung in the air. Chilling, tragic and shameful.

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5 years

Travellers will tell you that racism and hate speech not new in Ireland....

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He is quite right of course: Archbishop of Dublin horrified at ‘new language of racism’ in Ireland (via @thejournal_ie )

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2 years

@Peston A horror show that Tories made. Austerity with Cameron & Osborne, Brexit with May & Johnson, Chaos with Truss & Kwarteng, Calamity and more poverty with Sunak & Hunt. Emigration dog whistles to distract. Meanwhile more hungry children & cold homes. A tragedy for British people

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1/5 I am honoured to be elected Chair of the Joint Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community @itmtrav @PaveePoint @oeiny @OireachtasNews

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"Thinking and actions around Traveller employment is too small minded, not ambitious enough nationally and does not reflect a serious approach to supporting an indignenous ethnic minority group" - Brigid Quilligan of Kerry Travellers Health Community Development Project

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On day #GE2020 called I want to thank Ministers, TDs, Senators, staff & comrades from Civil Society. In this Oireachtas we worked together on...abortion care, home care, dementia care, rights & recognition for Travellers, Refugees, ppl with disabilities and so much more..❤️🙏🍀

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Traveller History & Culture must be taught in Ireland & taught well. @NCCAie has taken some important steps but need to speed up. Great Senator Eileen Flynn @Love1solidarity will push Minister for Education to pass the bill for Ireland to come onto line with Council Of Europe

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Oein DeBhairduin ✨

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The Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers has adopted a Recommendation that for the first time ever calls on its 47 member states to include the history of Travellers and Roma in school curricula and teaching materials.

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Wishing my dear friends ⁦ @frances_black ⁩ ⁦ @SenLynnRuane ⁩ ⁦ @aliceeire ⁩ ⁦ @pippa_hackett ⁩ ⁦ @SenatorJDolan ⁩ all the luck 🍀 in the world in #SE2020 . Great chemistry. @SeanadCEG ⁩ we made our mark

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@jenoconnell Had some conversations about how tragic events in Lixnaw could have been prevented. Proper sentencing for violence in the family home would be a start, sending a clear message that such acts are a crime with consequences. That this man was ‘hardworking’ is neither here nor there

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@gavreilly @anitambyrne @AnneRabbitte @AnneRabbitte is one of the most hardworking & concerned Ministers in this government. She is genuinely listening & genuinely trying to find answers through dialogue. Not meeting or not talking will not make the everyday challenges of disabled and autistic people disappear.

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4 years

More history made today for Travellers. A very good day. Wishing @Love1solidarity a fair wind

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John Campbell

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Senator Eileen Flynn signs the Roll. The first Traveller woman to sit in Seanad Éireann #Seanad #DiversityIsOurStrength #herstory

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I am proud out to be a Mincéir Ally... #Minc éirPride #TravellerPride #TravellerPrideWeek #diversitywithin

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2 years

@TeamSLancashire Happy Valley 3 was all we waited for & more. TV at its very best. Thank you

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5 years

People are being treated as litter.. what have we come to? Irrelevant that this man was supposed to be “known to homeless services”...what exactly does that imply? That the poor person brought it on himself to be living in a tent and be swept up as ‘rubbish’ . Shocking & shameful

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Cathal Mac Coille

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Life-changing injuries.

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5 years

Why is our state giving in to the bigots? Government needs to stand up & be counted. “Prejudice has no place in our Republic” Time for @LeoVaradkar to make good on his words.

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MASI - Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland

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Plans to house 13 asylum seekers in Achill postponed due to ongoing protest outside hotel. The asylum seekers who were meant to move there had hotel cleaning staff knocking on their doors to tell them that they won't be moving. Limbo!

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6 years

#WhoNeedsYourYes : 170k Irish women who had to travel, the 9 women who will travel tomorrow & the 3 women who will risk their health by taking a pill without their doctor & face 14 years in jail. Let's undo the wrong of '83

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@mohsinkamal169 This is so cruel. Racism and xenophobia at its core. Calling on @HMcEntee to probe these visa refusals

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Colette Kelleher

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4 years

⁦My good friend ⁦⁦ @KomKathleen ⁩ and I are really excited & all ‘fired up’ about our sold out advocacy webinar tomorrow. It’s all about working with the new Government & getting results. For information about future events email colette @kelleheromeara .ie #getresults

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5 years

Learning about Traveller history and culture will benefit all! #TravellerEdBill

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Learning about Traveller history and culture will benefit all

A bill to make the teaching of Traveller culture and history mandatory in schools will be a step towards preventing persistent discrimination against Travellers, writes Colette Kelleher.

www.irishexaminer.com

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4 years

When are we going to move on from writing report after report about the discrimination that Travellers experience day in day out in our country. And do something about it that makes a difference. Time for deeds not words @PaveePoint @_IHREC @MichealMartinTD @Love1solidarity

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TheJournal.ie

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The report found that one in ten Travellers, including children, report “going to bed hungry” at least once in the last month, rising to a fifth in some countries surveyed

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@JohnJCrace Following & logic is where you went wrong my friend. Now if you said self serving manoeuvring & making it up as you are going along you’d be grand

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@JaneWinward @SocialHousingCo So so so depressing a woman looking good is something seen as threatening, dangerous, provocative & has to be hidden away. We really have a long long way to go

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@GCraughwell @EvelynSpring8 Hi @GCraughwell . Disagree with you here. Lived in London very happily for almost 20 years. Cultural stereotyping limiting, annoying, reductionist & problematic for ethnic minorities. Majoritarian dismissals on grounds of ‘hypersensitivivity’ misses the point of power imbalance

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4 years

Government must tackle ‘silent killer’ of suicide in Traveller community

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Government must tackle ‘silent killer’ of suicide in Traveller community

National Traveller Mental Health Network calls for the government to invest in specific services for the Traveller Community as suicide rates remain high among Travllers

www.irishexaminer.com

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Colette Kelleher

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2 years

Delighted to join so many friends at Cork’s first Trans Pride in glorious sunshine. Proud to be an ally #CorkTransPride ⁦ @GayProjectIRL ⁩ ⁦ @corklinc ⁩ ⁦ @Belong_To ⁩ ⁦ @LGBT_ie ⁩

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2 years

Big big congrats to Two Norries for rightful recognition in Cork Lord Mayor Community & Voluntary awards. Legends! ⁦ @JamesLeonard85 ⁩ ⁦ @corkcitycouncil ⁩ ⁦ @Tabor_Group ⁩

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4 years

... and if we have learned anything at all it must be a National Heath and Social Care Service.

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Fintan O'Toole

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Fintan O’Toole: It is time for an Irish National Health Service via @IrishTimesOpEd

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6 years

Lots and lots of Cork #TogetherForYes voters on Patrick St today. Chatting with one woman who took a leaflet. We started talking about the 170,000 Irish women who had to travel..... "I was one of them" she said. Her eyes welled up, Let's do it for her on 25 May @CorkTogether4Y

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5 years

So moved by this. Doctors from a small island reaching out to a country on its knees. Solidarity... #Cuba #italystaystrong

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5 years

"Can you believe that in this day and age...out of 424 Traveller Individuals in East Limerick, that only 29 are over 50, worse still only 3 over the age of 65, one of these is my own father" - Nora Mooney, Kilmallock Traveller Women's Group #JCKeyIssuesAffectingTravellers

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4 years

Tragic loss of 23 people in a few short weeks in a Dundalk Nursing Home, a third of all who lived there. Serious questions to be answered. Would be good to hear as a matter of urgency from @HSELive @hiqa on what happened & what’s in place now to prevent more deaths in such places

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5 years

Statement here. Great news for Cork mothers and children. Bessborough nuns stepping back and gifting the land. Much needed cutting edge childcare and family support services are saved. A big relief for talented staff too in limbo these past months

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3 years

Cork native is the first female Provost in Trinity's 429-year history

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5 years

Proud to sponsor & champion gamechanging Traveller Culture & History in Education Bill & hoping to get it over the line in Seanad on Wednesday . Asking all Senators to send a strong Bill to Dail & for @McHughJoeTD & TDs from all parties to turn into law @itmtrav @PaveePoint

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Irish Traveller Movement

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On Wednesday Seanad Éireann has a historic opportunity to recognise #Traveller history and culture. We’re calling on all Senators to support the Traveller Culture & History in Education Bill. Will you support the milestone #TravellerEdBill ? #TravellerHistoryOurHistory

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3 years

@lewis_goodall Hancock is a spoofer of the highest order and no idea of what is right or wrong. Or cares even less Perfect for Boris & crew. Moral bankruptcy at every turn. Pity poor England & the best of what is British. So many decent people let down. A tragedy

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5 years

Let’s stop calling people “clients”, “service users”, “patients” or “customers”. Let’s stop hiding behind cold language & professional clap trap to create barriers & hierarchies. Let’s listen to and talk about “people” just people & make common cause in solidarity with them

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Sarah Donnelly

@sarahmdonnelly1

5 years

Food for thought on dehumanisation/ re-humanisation of medicine @AbraarKaran

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So glad Traveller Culture & History Bill I introduced in Seanad in July has prompted Minister Bruton to take action on curriculum. Welcome also his commitment to address low levels of secondary school completion among Traveller children ⁦ @itmtrav ⁩

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History of Irish Traveller community to be added to school curriculum

THE history and culture of the Irish Traveller community is to take its place on the school curriculum.

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Colette Kelleher

@ColetteKelleher

5 years

To end homelessness we need homes for good, not hubs, not hostels, not hotels or even sending in HIQA. Full stop

@morningireland

Morning Ireland

@morningireland

5 years

Father Peter McVerry told @morningireland HIQA should be given the responsibility to inspect homeless services. He thinks if that was to happen a lot of hostels would "be closed down overnight", describing situations of heroin use & violent incidents happening in shared rooms.

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3 years

Lit some candles for right decision to @savecorkcity in High Court next week. We live in a beautiful city and must make right decisions to preserve its unique heritage AND protect it from flooding. We can do both @MichealMartinTD @simoncoveney @mmcgrathtd

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3 years

@JamesKavanagh_ The good book says that the Christmas decorations MUST stay up til 6 Jan! Otherwise we make the Three Wise Men (as if), baby Cheeses & the wee donkey very cross, and not a day’s luck either!

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5 years

A short clip from the Housing Committee yesterday, speaking on the impact of homelessness on children #homesnothubs

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2 years

Our beautiful crumbling Cork city tonight. Lots of broken hearted people without a bed, a home or hope. We can and MUST do better

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6 years

Presenting today to Justice & Equality Cttee. Small changes in Family Reunification Bill will have big impact for people already gone thru hell. Time for Govt to change mind & stop blocking ⁦ @NascIreland ⁩ ⁦ @OxfamIreland ⁩ ⁦ @IrishRefugeeCo ⁩ ⁦⁦ @SeanadCEG ⁩

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Colette Kelleher

@ColetteKelleher

5 years

Public transfers of vast sums to private landlords for insecure and inadequate housing pure waste. Government is scamming us with this ‘bad deal’, ‘bad value’ housing policy. Needs to be phased out with investment in public housing on public land instead

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3 years

Today is a big day for future of our beautiful city. Hope right decision is made in the High Court to @savecorkcity #lovethelee

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@Luighseach This brave young man is very welcome in Ireland where I hope he finds some peace and opportunity

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2 years

@Arrivalists_ Patrick. Thank you for sharing this story. It actually made me cry. Honouring your mother by taking a little less and giving a family a forever home, like you and your family had. Beautiful. Generous. ❤️

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Colette Kelleher

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3 years

@Colmogorman Never ending systemic abuse of power worldwide. Picked on powerless - indigenous people, children, women. Church yet to face up to wrongs and trauma caused. Yet to atone. Recent ‘sins’:Trying to sell off children’s burial ground or renege on promises for Traveller homes for cash

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Colette Kelleher

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6 years

A very big thank you all TDs who voted decisively cross party for Family Reunification Bill 78 to 39.Another big step to #keepfamiliesTogether . A modest proposal that will do some good⁦⁦. @NascIreland ⁩ ⁦ @OxfamIreland ⁩ ⁦ @IrishRefugeeCo ⁩ ⁦ @SeanadCEG ⁩

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4 years

Wish I had been a regular at Suoermacs so I could boycott it now. Terrible attitude to the very people who make Pat McDonagh’s millions for him. Live and let live

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Colette Kelleher

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5 years

Why are we listening to Lucinda on RTE???? I don’t care what she thinks. About anything. Proven time & again to be out of touch and out of step with ‘regular citizens’. Certainly wouldn’t be turning to her for any political strategising or wisdom

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Colette Kelleher

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4 years

Daughter & I got creative this afternoon and made these lovely Christmas wreaths. Joy ❤️

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I hope relevant people in HSE have beeninformed, that this incident is being investigated & disciplinary action including sacking will be taken

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Colette Kelleher

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4 years

Arif’s death is a tragic and unnecessary loss of a young man’s life. This week in Scotland a destitute woman seeking asylum died of starvation with her one year old baby in her arms. Shameful for countries as rich as ours to treat people like this. May both RIP

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Saoirse McHugh

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4 years

RIP Arif #EndDirectProvision ffs

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Today I moved Traveller Culture & History in Education Bill onto Seanad Order Paper. Seconded by @SenLynnRuane and @GraceOSllvn . Bill will be debated next week. I am looking for cross party to support for this important legislation @itmtrav @SeanadCEG

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4 years

Ask any Traveller? Harsh words, hate speech, prejudice and discrimination are everyday realities. Only 1 in 10 non Traveller employers would offers Travellers a job. 80%+ unemployment. Anti Traveller sentiment is very much an ‘acceptable’ racism in today’s Ireland

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4 years

@ColetteKelleher @johnconnors1990 I dont see how travellers could be racially profiled? Discriminated against yes, but are people racist against travellers? Not that I know of.

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@saoirse_mchugh @davidmcw has been doing lots of work on vacant & derelict sites. Some great ideas. Must be big penalties for owners letting places fall into neglect. So many beautiful old buildings in Cork city centre have literally crumbled & fallen down. Could have been homes. A no brainier

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Looking forward to listening to @louiseckenny speak on #Together4Yes in Cork 3 May, Great line up of speakers including @alisonoconn , @LouiseCrowley2 and Annie Roche from @TFMRIRE , Save the date!

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4 years

Scenes from the beautiful city of Cork this evening. I love this place ❤️🤍

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4 years

@Peston @BorisJohnson What do Boris & his cronies care? Not a button nor a fig. In his deluded grandeur BoJo got his heart’s desire. No 10 via Brexit! Nothing else mattered in his blond ambition. Cynicism writ large. Incompetence too. Pity all the decent people under his sway... god help them all

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3 years

@bbclaurak Brave people

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4 years

On this day 3 years ago we marched ⁦together to repeal the 8th .....and we did! A lán atá deanta agus a lá atá le dèanamh #freesafelegal ⁦ @maryellena ⁩

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2 years

@Independent_ie Why on earth are we giving column inches or the time of day to this rather unreliable commentator?

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4 years

Some news ...NCCA is recruiting an Education Officer for Traveller Culture & History. Spread the word ⁦ @itmtrav ⁩ ⁦ @PaveePoint ⁩ ⁦ @NTWFIRL ⁩ ⁦ @SindyLJoyce ⁩ ⁦ @hannaghmcginley ⁦ @Oeiny ⁩

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4 years

Up to the tippy top of Patrick’s Hill today for a picnic in Bell’s Field. Who could ask for anything more? ⁦ @yaycork ⁩

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5 years

I was delighted to host the @WeAreAllHuman2 students from Largy College, Monaghan today. I am truly inspired by these students' support for their friend, for welcoming refugees, and for having the courage to act where we politicians are not. We need to #KeepFamiliesTogether

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6 years

Me and my lovely daughter running for @Together4yes . Great to finish! Let's get a big Yes vote over the line on 25 May

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Colette Kelleher

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4 years

Thank you @MichealMartinTD for appointing @Love1solidarity . First recommendation over the line. 33 more to go.

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Colette Kelleher

@ColetteKelleher

4 years

I was honoured to be the Rapporteur for the Seanad Public Consultation Committee which reported in January 2020. The first recommendation was to appoint a Traveller to Seanad Eireann. I hope our new Taoiseach ⁦ @MichealMartinTD ⁩ will do that today

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Well done ⁦ @SimonHarrisTD ⁩ for announcing ring-fenced Dormant Accounts funding to support Traveller access to and ability to remain in higher education. A step in the right direction

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6 years

Let’s #KeepFamiliesTogether this Christmas. Calling on all TDs to support the Family Reunification bill in Dail this Thursday @OxfamIreland @IrishRefugeeCo @NascIreland @Fiona_Kildare @fiannafailparty @greenparty_ie @sinnfeinireland

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4 years

What a cruel and eventful month November 1920 was ..Bloody Sunday, Terence MsSwiney & Kevin Barry’s deaths, Kilmichael Ambush to mention a few. The Burning of Cork to follow in a few short weeks. What a torrid, turbulent and momentous time. Makes our 2nd lockdown look quite tame

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So so proud of my ‘OH’ who ran 10k in #CorkCityMarathon proudly wearing ⁦ @SanctuaryRunner ⁩ shirt . #RefugeesAreWelcome here

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I’ve been so honoured to be a member of Seanad Éireann since 2016 and part of the amazing ⁦ @SeanadCEG ⁩. We did some great work together .... To keep it up please vote #SE2020 for ⁦ @frances_black ⁩ ⁦ @SenLynnRuane ⁩ ⁦ @aliceeire ⁩ ⁦⁦ @SenJohnDollSD40 ⁩

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@Peston And entirely in keeping with the Nasty Party of old. Cosset the cronies. Punish the poor

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7 years

Over 100,000 Irish women have travelled to the UK to access abortion. These women are politicians, teachers, nurses, waitresses and full time carers. They are our mothers, sisters, daughters, friends and work colleagues. They are people we know, people we love. Women we let down.

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5 years

Congratulations Respond! Keep these beautiful ‘forever’ homes coming...so much more than bricks and mortar. The fabric of people’s ability to live decent lives

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Respond Housing

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5 years

32 new homes in Lucan, we hope our new tenants will be really happy there 🏘️This was done in partnership with @sdublincoco , @HousingPress @HFA_Ireland 🙏. Some more pictures below.

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2 years

Congratulations ⁦ @corkcitycouncil ⁩ for hosting #RainbowCitiesNetwork conference. Great to be at launch with old friends & new as a LBBTQ+ally. Proud of my lovely inclusive city. A beacon of hope 🌈

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"How can you watch my people suffer and die and do nothing about it?" - a powerful submission from the Offaly Traveller Movement at yesterdays Joint Committee on Key Issues Affecting Travellers. One of many powerful submissions. Watch all in full at

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4 years

Good to see Gardai enforcing the law for the offence we fought so hard to get onto the statute books. Coercive Control is abuse and those who do it commit a crime and should be subject to the full force of the law. @SAFEIreland @CoerciveCtrl_IE

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Gardaí in Cork arrest man in connection with coercive control case

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