My daughter said to me “Dad she could run and couldn’t get away, there’s no way I’d be able in my wheelchair”. Not the Ireland I want.
#Ashling
Murphy
#daughter
For those who don’t think it’s a big deal,last year after a shocking, tortuous and devastating 8mth battle we said goodbye to my hugely adored sister and we had to decide who could,could not attend her funeral to say goodbye. It really is a big fkn deal.
#zapponegate
#Zapponyism
When asked about the 2000 people who are about to be evicted when the eviction ban is lifted and where will they go?
He replies, into emergency accommodation.
He’s a disgrace and not my Taoiseach.
A driver turned up to remove stock from the store, he was sent by the company and he entered the store
#aggressively
with the Garda sitting in a car outside, it was pointed out the van had no tax or insurance, the Garda seized the van!
#UpTheWorkers
The realities of being a family carer. You give up your career to care for a loved one. You get €223 a week and when you go for an eye test you have to pay you €35 because you are entitled to nothing. We save the state billions.
@CarersIreland
@ILMIreland
@MichealMartinTD
@oconnellhugh
You have TDs from establishment parties neglecting to declare owning 10-11 properties and the best you can do is farmers daughter wants to build home on the farm land.
Piers Morgan level of journalism this.
Should it not read. “The state is to hand over €450m of taxpayers money to private investment funds & landlords because it, the state, refuses to build social and affordable homes on state owned lands as it might effect the markets.” Shouldn’t it?
@ActingTheGom
Well when your little girl and boy run a lemonade stall two years in a row and through kind donations raises €7k to buy Temple st their first ever paediatric commode we should all be raging!!!!
@FineGael
@NoelRock
Be great if you could ban vulture funds snapping up entire blocks of apartments and renting them back to people and the state for massively inflated rents.
My beautiful mother passed away today.
Mam was a wonderful mother, wife, grandmother, friend and a nurse who lived her life caring for others.
The Galway hospice have been magnificent in caring for her, she passed with the love of her family all around her.
Sleep now Mam.💔
We had an older lady on the door this morning. She attends Hospital regularly and she was wondering did I know where “All those people who call for an Ireland for the Irish, which hospitals do they go to when they need to be seen by a nurse or doctor in an emergency”.
She knows!
I’m ashamed of my home county.
A county that prides itself as the city of the tribes a city and county that looks to tourism, arts and culture to promote itself on the world stage.
And a
@fiannafailparty
councillor stoking fear and hate with his soundbites, utterly shameful.
So
@wereontheditch
is a “Muck-raking” website!
The fact that it then follows with the statement “whose stories have led to the resignation of two junior ministers” reeks of professional jealousy!
I met an older woman this week with a disability and she said to me “I’m sick of just scraping by, I have nothing to enjoy in my life I’d be better off dead”. That’s some great little country we are.
This government is on the side of landlords, bankers and vulture funds.
Scathing remarks from Fr. Peter as he hears live on air that the
#EvictionBan
is not to be extended.
Would you expect anything less from a government of landlords.
Had enough yet?
Why is it when it comes to using taxpayers money to bail out banks and millionaires we can do that in 48hrs but when it comes to the state building homes for it’s people at a time of unprecedented wealth it’s very complicated?
#Greed
Rather then develop a national state owned enterprise like the ESB in 1927, we will sell off our wind renewables and face charges on par with prices we saw last year when costs were at their all time highest.
You couldn’t make it up!!
@greenparty_ie
Solidarity with the workers in Iceland. Some workers received an email at 9pm last night that their contracts were terminated others received an email this morning.
This is an outrageous breach of the workers rights and
@pb4p
stand fully with the workers!!!
Griffith woods being discussed on
@rteliveline
€75 rental for your pet pm, €100 parking space pm on top of your €1900pm for the smallest one bed. Not only are the rents extortionate, now you have to pay €1k a year for your cat, it’s truly a broken system.
@DarraghOBrienTD
Family carer :- €223pw
Sec Gen :- €5,730pw
Family carer :-€11,596pa
Sec Gen :- €298,000
It takes a family carer 25.75 years to earn what the Sec Gen earns in 1yr.
Carers save the state €15-€20billion! How’s that for value Irish Tax Payer?
If your going to make a statement
@MichealMartinTD
around how
@wereontheditch
is funded, claiming it has “no subscriptions” I’d at least check my facts, possibly double and triple check them!
#theditch
One year ago today we said goodbye, even in the throws of your treatment you still looked after your bigger brother, always smiling, always laughing, we miss you so much, we love you forever, our beautiful Liz.
@ActingTheGom
@GoodLuxChuck
Il keep ramming this home! Family carer €219pw
Head of HSE €8,173.07pw
Carer €11,388pa saves the date €15-€20bn
Head of HSE makes more in two weeks then a carer in a year.
That’s a wrap for me! Thanks to everyone who voted for me.
I will continue to fight,especially for our disability and caring community & after years of campaigning and winning huge victories for our community and off latest reports around disability poverty I’m not going away!
The chaos we see in Coolock is not representative of how the majority who live there feel.
Many work in places like Beaumount hospital along side workers from all over the world.
They are friends and are an integral part of the community, a mighty working class community.
Jesus wept.
All my Galway friends you have your TD Ciarán Cannon on
#Morning
Ireland stating that “Yes it’s going to be a difficult time for people renting who will loose their home but it’s for the greater good” and he says it with such conviction.
#HowIrelandWorks
@caulmick
Watching this last night I couldn’t believe what I was hearing, his arrogance telling people move to somewhere cheaper as Dublin is too expensive for you now was infuriating, the sense of privilege was astounding.
What is it with the greens wanting to hit the people who are already suffering the most when it comes to the
#CostOfLiving
They have new measures being brought in that will see bills increase by 10%.
More hardship for ordinary working people.
@oconnellhugh
I’ve a little girl here
@oconnellhugh
who uses a wheelchair for her mobility and in my house we are very aware that you do not to judge people on their appearance or their mannerisms. You would do well to take a leaf out of her book.
I’m here outside
#Iceland
talbot street where the workers have had to occupy the store.
Workers haven’t received their wages or assurances that they will be receiving their owed monies and holiday entitlements.
Get down to support these workers!
#Solidarity
Huge demonstration in Dublin today to show overwhelming public support for a cessation of the ongoing violence and genocide being perpetrated by Israel on the Palestinian people in Gaza!
#CEASEFIRE_NOW
#FromtheRivertotheSeaPalestineWillbeFree
@TadhgHickey
She couldn’t even hide her disdain for him and she shows us on TV exactly how the Americans, English and Israelis view the Palestinian people, with the utmost contempt.
@nealerichmond
Bring shame on our parliament!
11,000 homeless, 3000 children.
€64bn to bailout bankers.
1000 patients on hospital trolleys.
The only shame being brought is the shameful neglect and woefully poor leadership by FG-FF these past 100yrs.
Young people have a good time when it was legal and the media eviscerate them along with publishing videos and pics. The establishment throw a soirée, no pics and no list of attendees just
@LeoVaradkar
and
@ivanabacik
. Who else was in attendance? Why the coverup?
#MerrionGate
Proud to stand with
@UnitedARacism
and many other groups today to show solidarity with our migrant and refugee community and to push back at those chanting hate and bile towards them!
#SayNoToRacism
Leo Varadkar on the six one news now and he’s just told us that people on state supports like carers allowance won’t be getting a €30/€40 increase you have to be on the minimum wage for that, and even that’s below the rate of inflation.
Fine Gael and poverty go hand in hand.
Last night on the
@rtenews
we saw Ava racked in pain and now due to the ever expanding waiting lists for life changing surgeries. As a CEO how can Paul stand over that failing.
#scoliosis
#children
#failing
@ThoughtsToby
I’ve been campaigning for the rights of people with disabilities for over a decade now.
From ratification of the UN convention on the rights of PWD up to the current scrap the green paper struggle which we won and at no time have I ever seen or heard you support our fight!
Lynn Boylan making a great point on
@TonightVMTV
that little was made a few weeks ago when FF/FG did not support further sanctions to Russian oligarchs and billionaires because the IFSC is awash with Russian money. Do as I say but not as I do!
#Billionaires
@Mick_Finnegan
Jesus Mick I’m at a loss to imagine how you were feeling but by the sounds of it you dealt with it in a way that you were the one who was in control of the situation and you were the one who fully owned the space.
Fair play Mick, powerful.
Im calling out this now as I’m sick of seeing this narrative peddled, my little girl will never be able walk, my elderly relatives can no longer walk or cycle my good friend
@SeanOKelly92
uses a wheelchair for his independence and his car is his life line. Stop shaming people.
That’s some start to the new year.
#RTE
news interviews a young Palestinian girl and asks her what her wish is for the new year, she replies “Not to be killed in 2024”.
#Gaza_Genocide
It appears that the far right have allowed their hatred to utterly consume them and they are now attacking
#PWD
.
This is a new low for people who have already shown their blind hatred to others.
To attack a person in a wheelchair is beyond reproach.
This is pure hatred.
Great rally for housing today. The old trope calling out the protesters as a group of wasters and layabouts is truly put to bed as the majority of those on the rally are from ordinary working backgrounds, ordinary people, who see no hope of ever owning a home!
#EnoughIsEnough
@caulmick
@MichealMartinTD
I’m a carer I get a payment of €223pw, I along with many thousands of carers save the state billions. MM gets paid €78 less in one day what I get to care for a whole month.This crisis is crushing people on low to middle incomes yet all we see are the rich getting richer,enough.
@josephamadigan
@SpinalIreland
Funny there’s a campaign called
@AccessForAll7
who have for the past 3yrs been screaming about accessibility and the way PWD are treated by this Gov, they have never been engaged by you or anyone from FG/FF but hey great photo op!!!!! Remember the schools comment, we do.
“Actor Liam Cunningham joins protesting Iceland workers.”
Great to have
@liamcunningham1
in today showing his support to the mighty
#Iceland
workers!!!
@d2234f95349e48e
and the staff have been doing Trojan work manning the pickets!
#UpTheWorkers
@eoinmauricedaly
Took this 7yrs ago and there was no better feeling then seeing the chimneys as you come into land having arrived home from extended periods living and working abroad.
It’s not a
@FineGael
priority to end the housing crisis. It’s not a FG priority to create a fair inclusive accessible healthcare system. It’s not a FG priority to end poverty, their main priority is to keep
@sinnfeinireland
out.
That is all that matters to them!
@MarkGermaine
That system is called a healthcare system Mark and one that cares for people with addictions and mental health problems.
Currently we don’t have that, you should get angry at that Mark and not the person who is in need of the help the state is failing to provide them with.
@ChrisPenderKE
I still have never heard a single Labour TD apologise for being the first and only party In Government history to cut a support payment to people with disabilities and their families all to bail out bankers.
It will never ever sit right with me.
“Record €515m paid to private landlords under HAP scheme last year.”
Half a billion!
Naomi Klein writes when society faces a crisis then the very wealthy and connected will always make even more
#money
.
#HousingCrisis
#ShockDoctrine
Delighted to stand with
@liamcunningham1
and Sean tonight on the bridge in Fairview pushing back against the
#hate
and
#fear
that’s been used as a weapon against our communities in north dublin.
There is no place for
#racisim
in our society!!! ✌🏽✌🏽✌🏽
In Lidl, bumped into an older neighbour. Chatting about the housing crisis, an elderly stranger interjected “I’m home after 40yrs in the US and it’s the likes of you who has this county ruined letting in all those refugees” neighbour hit back “Pity you weren’t on the titanic”.🫣
This Friday il be voting Yes/No in the referendum.
I’ve been fighting for the rights of people with disabilities since 2015, I’m a carer and the father of a child with a disability.
Successive Gov have failed us, and enough is enough.
#DisabilitiesMatter
#VoteYesNo
So the minister was given four options but went with the option best to suit
#developers
and
#lobbyists
Information released to
@OCallaghanCian
showed he spent more time with those two groups then discussing the bill in our Dail. What does it tell you?Government is developer led.
Just registered for the local Elections.
After 5years of local and national campaigning, producing massive results for my community I’m asking you for your number one so I can continue that fight within Dublin City Council.
#VoteLeft
Early this morning I was sent a photo of the bike lane on Griffith ave, after school drop off I went for look and took some more. Anyone who wishes to use active transport is facing a skating rink of leaves.
@DubCityCouncil
this needs to be addressed for safety!
@donna_cooney1
@caulmick
Burning a sod of turf in the kitchen range to heat and feed yourself:-Bad.
Data centers consuming massive amounts of energy putting massive pressures on our grid and energy supplies:- Good.
@caulmick
@irishexaminer
I’m assuming the
@FineGael
councillor mentioned in the article will be lambasting her own party and resigning her party membership in protest against her party who have facilitated this happening?
What can we say, once again
@liamcunningham1
takes time out of his busy schedule to come down and support the mighty workers in
#Coolock
as they reoccupy the store due to the fact the promises made have been broken.
Get down and support these mighty workers💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
@paulmurphy_TD
If ever there was an argument for our state to step in and set up a a state led and state owned building program this is it.
#Paying
40% above the rate for social homes in the worst housing crisis in the history of the state!
#DayLightRobbery
I was down in Fairview removing the recent
@_HousingCrisis
posters. I walked over to this abomination but unfortunately could not reach it. When I went back across the road I was confronted by a shirt wearing businessman and told to “to mind my own business”. It is my business.
It would take a family carer 26.7yrs to accumulate the overpayment that RTE paid Tubridy in 5yrs.
Not his salary just the overpayment that did not register with him in his bank account.
#HowIrelandWorks