@TheVandelay
@NastazjaDom
It also allows the bandwidth for creativity. If you’re not slammed earning a living and exhausted worrying where your rent is coming from and sorting out your overdrafts, you’ve got lots of lovely imagination time to spare.
So proud of our Mum, Sally Mulready, on
#ireland100
tonight with
@SWB_Productions
Mum read a poem she wrote years ago, as a survivor of her childhood in Irish institutional care, asking “what god did we offend?”
❤️
O my goodness trans pride in London is so lovely, so full of love, so many friends, so many hugs and flowers and style and beautiful people. My HEART ❤️ 🏳️⚧️
I am so proud to be a trans ally.
Iconic funeral for Shane MacGowan. I can think of no other word for it. Nenagh has done everyone proud and Victoria Mary’s statement about addiction was absolutely right and beautifully put.
Mo Ghile Mear for the final farewell
❤️
So proud of
@NoraMulready
conducting the Irish Pensioners Choir, & our mum for founding the choir & basically so proud of them all I have exploded & am now just a firework.
Thank you so much to
@SWB_Productions
for having us. It was such an honour for our family.
#Ireland100
@saj_anderson
@HeathrowAirport
The trials of air travel as a person needing assistance. We had a similar problem of staff ignorance at Gatwick last year and did not have the energy to pursue a complaint. Good luck to you Stephen. I hope you’re able to get somewhere.
Re the vile speech at trans pride, inciting violence:
I am a trans ally. I know trans women are women.
The woman making that speech doesn’t speak for me. I don’t understand why she was given a platform at what was an otherwise beautiful event. I hope it never happens again.
Yes you absolutely may and may I say right back at ya xxxxxxxxxxx
And also I think it is high time
@DollyvanT
was given an OBE for services to living happily ever after
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Brilliant 50th birthday party of
@britishlibrary
- fantastic band
@DeleSosimi
inc best sax solo I’ve ever heard, fiddle playing in the reading room AND I got to see the actual Magna Carta & have a total public law geek swoon ❤️
Brilliant time with
@think2speak
who are doing outstanding work empowering LGBTQI+ children and their families. Great chat - thank you for having me ❤️🎉🪩🏳️⚧️
#Pride2023
#LondonPride2023
Absolute best reaction to that dire obituary in the guardian, which seems to have been written by someone who completely misunderstood the sheer courage and beauty of Sinead O’Connor.
Our dear friend Leeson O’Keefe. London Irish music legend. Stalwart of love to older Irish people.
Here at Hugh Callaghan’s funeral & RTE’s old song resung & St Patrick’s day - his last gig.
He gave life his all.
I’m proud to have known him.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam
💚
Extremely lovely time with
@PompeySteph
in this great city of ours. There are so many women working to lift up other other women it’s enough to make you feel emotional! ❤️
Actually cannot overstate how wonderful this is. Witty script, gorgeous music, brilliant actors. Give yourself a proper treat and go see it. I went on Saturday night - sold out show, standing ovation, audience bursting with joy.
#LGBTQItheatre
#QueerTheatre
Returning this week - you have 5 more performances to catch critically acclaimed
#LaMaupin
from our brilliant Associate Artists
@FantasticGnds
🎭 Tues - Sat | 7.30pm
🎟️
Brilliant
@pagesofhackney
event last night with
@RowanMoore
in conversation about his book (HIS BOOK!) with the excellent
@NickBano
(Photography by
@moira_robin
who asked the second most difficult question of the night.)
Reading about this inspiring cohort of new fellows and feeling extremely proud to be a trustee
@ChurchillFship
Particularly proud that we have a fellowship category about care experienced children & young people - very close to my heart ❤️
📢📢News just in! Congratulations to our new
#ChurchillFellows
of 2023.
141 inspiring individuals will embark on extraordinary journeys to learn from the world to inspire change in the UK. Meet our new Fellows:
@Warayemon
@brokenbottleboy
@Voodoo_Roy
Why? The purpose of language is to communicate to others what we want to say. If a person pronounces a word differently to you, or uses a different turn of phrase to you, but you still understand exactly what they mean, what’s the problem?
On a train in my beloved Hackney this morning. A young man wearing a kippah stood up to give his seat to an elderly lady wearing a hijab.
This is how London is.
❤️
I’m far away from the mother land today but I have been thinking about Sinead since I woke up, listening to her music, utterly full of admiration for her courage. Real, true courage.
Ireland will do her proud today I’m sure - at last.
Yesssss!
@LivvieThompson
and her outstanding musical (all women and non binary cast no less!) have won an actual
@OffWestEndCom
offie! Exploding with joy, So well deserved for the magnificent La Maupin.
❤️🎉💪💃
@Nicola_Slawson
This is a completely and utterly gorgeous article. What a lovely way to live your life. I am actually in tears. Very best of luck to all three of you xxx
Jake and Hannah are such a beautiful couple and their young family an inspiration to a great many of us. Thank you both for always being so open about your lives. You blaze a powerful trail for families like mine ❤️
O Mary this London’s a wonderful sight.
Happy pride to absolutely everyone and especially the
@TfL
workers who keep us all moving in the greatest city on earth
❤️💃🪩🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️
Love to my trans friends and family this morning. Do not give up hope of a more peaceful existence. So many of us are right beside you, full of admiration, respect & determination you will get to live your truth in peace.
❤️
At
@Gatwick_Airport
travelling w a magnificent group of elderly people with multiple disabilities & neurodiversity. The most appalling experience I’ve ever had of travelling w people with disabilities. Gatwick staff urgently need disability training. The ignorance is shocking.
@oilibhia
Not true. This Irish person wears the poppy and I make no apology for that. Nor do I criticise you for not wearing one. I do however feel shame at Ireland’s neutrality against Hitler. That’s nothing for any of us to be proud of.
So much love & admiration for Finn & the GI crew. They do genuinely life changing work w young trans people - who are bizarrely on the receiving end of so much media hostility when all they want is to chill with their mates in a tent in the rain like everyone else ❤️
@Genderintell
got back from our Under 18s camp on Thursday evening. It was so incredible to see 35 young trans people being able to play, share stories, care for themselves & each other & most importantly spend 4 days just being silly!
One 11 yr old said… 1/5 🧵
I’m sure this is well intentioned, but for many of us living with dementia in our families, it is ill judged, inaccurate & distressing.
She forgets loads of stuff now, but the person I love who has dementia, is witty, generous, & very much alive.
This👇should be taken down.
Fantastic night
@IrelandEmbGB
for
@FiddlerLondon
2024 with the absolute force that is Eilish Byrne Whelehan - a woman responsible for many things including teaching me and
@NoraMulready
the fiddle
🎻
❤️
🇮🇪
Truly hilarious set from
@paulfoot
last night
@UnionChapelUK
- I was delighted to be there supporting
@ChurchillFship
Churchill Fellow Dr Erin Hope who turned her personal sadness into meaningful support for others through
@LossFoundation
What a woman ❤️
With Eamonn Galldubh backstage
@TheRDS
waiting for our gig as back up band to
@IrishElderlyAdv
the Irish Pensioners Choir - a pure privilege to join them on the stage for RTE concert celebrating
#Ireland100
Thank you for having us ❤️
I’ve been married to
@RowanMoore
now for a month and IT IS SO UTTERLY FANTASTIC AND LOVELY AND BLISSFUL that I’ve decided to tell you all. If carlsberg made husbands etc.
❤️
Yes you absolutely may and may I say right back at ya xxxxxxxxxxx
And also I think it is high time
@DollyvanT
was given an OBE for services to living happily ever after
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Two years ago, I became the first Member of the UK Parliament to talk openly about being in
#recovery
.
I hope my openness has helped to challenge the stigma that stops so many people seeking help.
#ChooseToLive
#AlcoholAwarenessWeek
The Glastonbury crowd filling in for Lewis Capaldi when he needed help was such a beautiful moment. Anyone saying “it was heartbreaking” or “he shouldn’t have gone on” is seriously missing the point. Disability is not a bad thing to be hidden. It exists alongside success and joy.
The vast majority of people I meet, young & old, are just lovely to & about trans kids.
Curious maybe, not fully understanding what it all means (and it IS complicated so that’s totally understandable), but their instincts are kind.
I’m focusing on those good people today ❤️
@theFoxFisher
Gorgeous! Also - was in Brighton today and saw your lovely face smiling down from a poster just casually reminding us all that you’re an icon ❤️
So moved by
@siobhni
&
@louisa_harland
in Dancing at Lughnasa last night. Five sisters & one kitchen & all the love & life that goes with it. A line at the end about memories of Ireland being not factual but atmospheric - so true for me. That play will stay with me. Thank you.
🗣 'I'm the instrument and if it's a wonky instrument, then so be it'
#DerryGirls
actors
@siobhni
and
@louisa_harland
tell
@bbcnuala
about dancing on stage at
@NationalTheatre
👯♀️ & why they chose to shift the focus away from 'prettiness' to create something real.
Listen here ⬇️
He sure did. In my family we are so proud Hugh became our very dear friend. He brought us so much joy and we will miss him hugely.
Thank you Rory for this lovely piece.
❤️
Delighted to see
@PantiBliss
leading the st Patrick’s day parade through London today. No better woman, for an inclusive Ireland and a warm welcome to all ❤️🇮🇪
I was a
@SAYesMentoring
mentor for a year - cannot recommend it highly enough. The mentors and mentees are thoroughly trained before they even meet for the first time. Such a worthwhile & valuable experience.
🚨 We need you!🚨
Calling all good candidates to
mentor young Londoners! If this is you, please get in touch.
(meetings are virtual and you don’t have to live in London)
Email us: volunteer
@sayesmentoring
.org
@SAYesMentoring
Firstly - Leo asked a wonderful question and delivered it flawlessly.
Secondly - we do not deserve Michael Sheen. What a beautiful soul. I love how supportive & encouraging he was, without being patronising.
#TheAssembly
@STN_Airport
Nope. The admin burden of sorting out disabled access should not fall on the people who need that access or their families. You need no more information to be able to just tell everyone who works for you that people in wheelchairs are human beings so why not just do it?
Happy book launch day to
@RowanMoore
who is delicious and also excellent at writing books. Me and
@NoraMulready
shall be sailing in Noah’s ark to the launch 🚀 tonight
@DrWillN
@TeamPrepster
@TheLoveTankCIC
I am so sorry I missed this at the time! You absolutely wonderful person Will. I hear you about these lists but you are definitely an exception to the rule. You’re an awesome human and I’m proud to know you 💪❤️
JIGGY in London!
The Big St. Patrick's Festival Party
Featuring Jiggy, comedy and dance!
16 March, London Irish Centre
Doors, 20:00, Show, 20.30
Tickets: …
@LDNIrishCentre
When we worked together at Ch4, Paul O’Grady insisted that new roles on his show were advertised in the local Job Centre. He wanted anyone and everyone to be able to apply so they could get a break like he had. And it made the show better. A kind and generous man.
Here’s the sign me and my lovely
@RowanMoore
brought with us to trans pride last summer.
To our sons and every other trans person in our lives - you are a joy & a blessing & you must hold your beautiful heads up high today & always ❤️
Happy trans day of visibility
#TDOV
So much solidarity in football. Full of admiration for them. Enough is enough. Men touching women without our permission happens all the time, what might be trivial to the man can be upsetting for the woman for years after & it is so long overdue that the men just stop it.
Spanish striker Borja Iglesias announces he will not play for the Spanish national team in support of the women's national team after Luis Rubiales refused to resign as RFEF president. 🚨
“As a footballer and as a person, I do not feel represented by what happened today… I have
Happy 43rd birthday to myself & more importantly ETERNAL gratitude to
@DollyvanT
whose magical matchmaking means I spent it milling about Dalston with
@RowanMoore
❤️
An absolute privilege to play in stage with the Irish Pensioners Choir, with
@NoraMulready
and the most fun crew I’ve ever had the pleasure to make music with ❤️
No matter where I go / it’s in my soul ❤️
What an absolute honour it was to have the London Irish Elders Choir perform at an Old Song Re-Sung 🇮🇪
You can watch their heart melting performance in full now on the
@rteplayer
!
I am delighted to say that my new book, a must for anyone who wants to understand the weird state of property and housing, will be launched on November 2nd.
Pre-order now
Stunning night last night at London’s only trans owned LGBT+ club. Owned by a collective. GREAT welcome. They even sang (the timeless classic) Let It Go from Frozen. And
@eileeneiffell
was glorious in her Irish dancing dress. Get down there 🪩🎉🏳️⚧️
#Pride2023
What an amazing evening it was! 🎤🎶
@eileeneiffell
Join us TONIGHT and every Thursday at
@zodiacbarlondon
for GameOn! 🎮🎉 and experience the incredible talent of Eileen Eiffell.
🔗 Get your tickets now -
@Gatwick_Airport
@saj_anderson
No.
1. The admin burden of sorting out problems with assistance shouldn’t be on the people who need the assistance.
2. If you’ve read my tweets, you know what the problems are and so should be able to avoid them happening again.
Beautiful tribute to Sinead O’Connor from the President of Ireland. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Irish people so united- we are just so utterly proud of her.