Dearbhail McDonald
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If it’s too unsafe for women to walk alone, day or night, the problem is not women
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The hatred of, misogyny & barely concealed racism directed at
#MeghanMarkle
in some quarters of the UK media (broadsheet as well as tabloid + broadcast) is staggering
#PlatinumJubilee
We have to interrogate the role of media in its demonisation of women, incl by other women
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Think it’s bad what they did to Britney? They’re doing it to Meghan Markle now. And we can see the misogyny and racism in all its horrid glory. In real time. It’s nauseating.
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I’m not sure how I feel (personally) about all this opening up lark just yet 😔 Maybe it’s just the post pandemic jitters, but I’m not convinced we’re in the ‘post’ part of it all yet. Just me?
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On this
#BrexitDay
, announcing a little exit of my own... I’m stepping down from
@Independent_ie
#INM
after almost 13 years working with some of the best journalists in Ireland to pursue new interests of my own. It has been an absolute privilege - a new, exciting chapter begins.
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Did we have any female nominees for that renaming of Dublin Airport *AskingFor50pcOfThePopulation*
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You’re in your 40s (could be any age), alone, female, had a great night out with your pal (s). Frantically checking if their/your taxi home was ok, got your key in the door. Security cross check. Final verbal call to check all is ok. This is totally normal, right?
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Irish peace is too precious to be squandered by the Brexit ultras | Dearbhail McDonald
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Truly overwhelmed by the response to my piece
@guardianopinion
I’m not alone: so many people hold similar memories about the
#Border
& so many of us are fearful about the impact of
#Brexit
on the
#PeaceProcess
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Thanks to
@guardianopinion
for allowing me to share some thoughts, from this side of the Irish Sea, on
#Brexit
the
#Backstop
and what the
#Border
means to many of us who grew up during the Troubles - and why we fear its return
The backstop isn’t just about trade. Is that so hard to understand, Britain? | Dearbhail McDonald
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Think before you post. The Sub Judice Rule matters.
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I see the armchair epidemiologists have branched out into large scale logistics and cold chain storage with their customary ease and *checksnotes* armchair expertise 🤔
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It’s staggering to hear Arlene Foster deny there was a hard border during the troubles. As the late Sen Daniel Patrick Moynihan once said, you’re entitled to your own opinion, not your own facts
Hate to comment as someone from Dublin, but on trips to Newry as a child we were ‘welcomed’ by British soldiers armed to the teeth inspecting documentation etc.
Was that not a hard border?
@DearbhailDibs
help me out here?
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If there were medals for mothers… we are so privileged to have had this lady as our mam. Now the final gathering begins 💙🙏
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Constance. Her name was Constance.
100 years ago today, the first female MP, Nancy Astor, was elected to Parlt. The female
@Conservatives
candidates standing in this election are exceptional & I look forward to working with them in Parlt to achieve further progress on gender equality across our society.
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So, some personal news.... Thrilled to be joining
@bbcradioulster
with
#SundayWithDearbhail
from 11am to 1pm on Sundays, bringing the best of in-depth current affairs, interviews, discussion and analysis, including an essential guide to the Sunday papers
.
@bbcradioulster
reveals new line-up for daytime and weekend schedule starting Oct 21
@LynetteFay
@DearbhailDibs
@vinnybelfast
@kathyclugston
@nikkigregg27
@shanetodd
@kerry_mclean
@marielouisemuir
@BBCevex
@nweir1
@kazhawkinsmusic
@BBCSounds
Info:
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The common thread between
#kerrybabies
#MagdaleneLaundries
#repealthe8th
and so much more is that we still, to this day, treat Irish women & girls facing crisis pregnancy with ignorance, distrust & contempt.
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When all this is over, we need to talk about
#childcare
and the needs of working parents but especially women who form the backbone of our health and social care services.
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Happy
#NollaigNamBan
to all those amazing ladies in our lives, the pioneers who have gone before & the younger generations now taking their place in the world. 2018 was a landmark year for Irish women, but we keep our eye on the prize: equality, a rising tide that lifts all boats
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The morning after the riot before... major clean up this morning in Paris
#ParisProtests
#YellowVests
#GiletsJaunesParis
#GiletsJaune
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For all those struggling today, here are 14 men peacefully protesting outside the US Supreme Court as they chant ‘Believe women, believe survivors’
The moment these heroes were arrested. They were warned but did not move.
Chanting "Believe Survivors"
RETWEET THIS!
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Violence Against Women. Our permanent pandemic. We don’t have to live with it or learn to live with it. And we need men to help us end violence against women & girls. No words, my heart is just breaking for the family & friends of
#AshlingMurphy
#EndVAW
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Heading ‘home home’ for our mother’s months mind. Observing new
#grief
rituals that somehow always felt for others to observe, not ours. But grief knocks at every door, in time..
#LivingWithLoss
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This is one of my favourite
#MarRefMemories
the late, great
@noelwhelan
fighting back tears as he is mobbed outside of Dublin Castle. A much valued colleague & friend, Noel Whelan made such a remarkable contribution to
#marref
& so much more. I miss his friendship & wisdom.
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Hands up if you’re NOT going to the Garth Brooks gig
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Forget yer man: listen to Ada Hegerberg’s advice for young girls instead 🙋🙋🙋
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Huge shout out to all our council workers, medical staff, army, public servants & so many others keeping vital public services intact during
#stormemma
#sneachtageddon
#everdayheroes
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Amazing 👏👏👏 Irish team wins international competition with dementia app
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This small island pulled together, socially, economically and politically for the
#BSE
and
#FootAndMouth
crises. If we can do it for cattle, we can do it for people.
#COVID19
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Everyone's asking: what's next? And the answers are
#schools
#education
#housing
etc. The repeal of the 8th is about so much more than
#abortion
- it's about the status of women, the kind of society we want to live in & *whisperit*
#ANewPolitics
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Anyone else nervous about the opening up, esp indoor and outdoor gatherings, in circs where many Irish people appear to have an aversion to wearing masks? *askingforafriend*
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Is it just me or is anyone else happy at the prospect of not re-registering for lots of newsletters/mailing lists in the current
#GDPR
scramble? Didn't realise just how many things I had mindlessly signed up to.
#SpringClean
#GDPR
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Crying out for proper sex education for years, and it’s framed like this 👇
Good morning, here's the front page of today's Irish Independent
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Anyhoos, this just arrived & I don’t know whether to die of shame/buyers’ remorse or just get into the Christmas spirit, because, feck it, we all need a boost this year 😂
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Oh, to be a fly on the wall wherever Arlene Foster is now
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80pc or our public health specialists in Ireland are women. More than 70pc of health and social care workers worldwide are women (sadly not reflected in the leadership). They are indispensable. Can we absolutely bow at their feet with gratitude today and always
#NollaignaMban
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Not gonna lie, part of me loved being locked down in this magic 2km corner of the planet. Here’s to a healthy, safe & equitable reopening of our economy & society. 💙
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Once more with feeling, you cannot comment on an accused in criminal law proceedings once they have been charged and brought before the courts. That many high profile accounts on this platform, incl media contributors do so, never ceases to amaze.
#Contempt
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Can we just say fair play to Joe Duffy and the
@rteliveline
team for doing more for women experiencing
#menopause
and
#perimenopause
than years of trying to break taboos and get this crucially important issue on the agenda. The women of Ireland salute you 🙇♀️👏
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Once more with feeling… the answer is not pepper spray 🤦♀️
In light of the tragic murder of Aisling Murphy and the ever-increasing assaults of women in Irish society,I am calling on the Government to open a real debate in legalising the use of Mace so women in particular would be able to defend themselves against unprovoked assaults.
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“Sesame Street” displaying more leadership about
#refugees
and
#migration
than many world leaders right now
#refugeeswelcome
These "Sesame Street" characters are helping refugee children learn how to play again ❤️😭
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Doing my wee bit
@SkyNews
to explain why the
#border
and the
#backstop
is about so much more than just goods/trade. It’s about a hard fought peace, integration, our identity, our shared future.
#Brexit
Thanks for posting
@lisaocarroll
@skydavidblevins
THE BACKSTOP - what it is not: “For people like me who grew up on the border, this is not about trade. It’s about people” -
@DearbhailDibs
, group business editor at Ireland’s largest newspaper group
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Hairdressers, any update on the hairdressers? Yours sincerely, Mna na heireann
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Great to see some good come out of the awful headline the
@Irishtimes
had originally placed (& later changed) on its syndicated interview with Don McLean. Here, his ex wife Patrisha has her right of reply
@roisiningle
and it’s well worth your time 👏
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Inhale, hold your breath for four seconds, exhale & repeat 🤦♀️
John Humphrys suggests Ireland could quit EU and join the UK
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No Irish women in Washington. Not one. Sad.
#StPatricksDay
Productive meetings this afternoon
@uscapitol
for discussions on
#Brexit
, Northern Ireland, immigration & economic issues
#StPatricksDay
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Naomi Long though…
@naomi_long
If there’s a clip of analysis on the protocol you need to watch, it’s this one.
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Step aside John Lewis ad people, there’s a new winner in town 💙💙💙
Christmas may be a little different this year but we all know who makes it extra special. Whether you’re keeping old traditions or making new ones we all love a magical Christmas. You just have to Believe……..
Check out our Christmas advert ⬇
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Where are the women?
NEW
Tony Holohan, Ronan Glynn and Philip Nolan leave Government Buildings after three hours.
#COVID19
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Whatever your view, make sure you are registered and, if you can, come
#hometovote
No one of child bearing age has had a chance to have their say on
#8thref
in 35 years
#ItsTime
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Absolutely brilliant piece on
#Brexit
and
#NorthernIreland
by
@PatricKielty
who predicts that if we’re heading for a hard
#Brexit
we’re heading for a united Ireland
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This, what a beautiful act by the community in Creggan - the finest messages to promote in the wake of the the death of
#lyramckee
#OurDifferenesMakeUsStronger
💙
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I shared a deeply personal story
@IoDIreland
about having my eggs frozen in the hope that we can have a much needed public debate about
#fertility
(male and female)
#family
and women in the workplace.
#OperationFrozen
#WeNeedToTalkAboutFertility
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Absolute solidarity with, and respect for, these amazing, courageous women
#DontBeAfraid
@DublinRCC
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Had the extraordinary privilege of travelling to Sydney as part of the Irish delegation for the inaugural
@EUAusForum
An Australia-style deal is what Australia is working its proverbial to get rid of. A No Deal by another name? 👇
@LBC
@mrjamesob
'Australia-style deal means nothing.'
James O’Brien passionately reacts to Alok Sharma saying on LBC that the difference between a No Deal Brexit and an Australia style deal is just 'semantics.'
@mrJamesOB
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Lost for words… Honoured and humbled to receive the
@SmurfitSchool
Outstanding Achievement Award 2021 for my contribution to business journalism. Congrats to
@TomLyonsBiz
@ipkehoe
@thecurrency
and all today’s
#SmurfitAwards
winners and nominees
#JournalismMatters
We're delighted to present Dearbhail McDonald
@DearbhailDibs
with this year's Outstanding Achievement Award. Presented by the judging panel to someone whose work has enhanced our understanding of business and inspired other journalists to follow suit.
#SmurfitAwards
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What an incredible piece on her pregnancy loss (and that of her husband) by Meghan Markle. And she is still being subjected to horrendous online abuse - The Losses We Share
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18 months ago, my definition of a sea swim was getting my shoulders wet. Yesterday I swam my first 1.5km open swim race & even made it back on time for
@theshakingbog
Big thanks to swim sistas
@NiamhPitts
@maddielou77
fellow
#NewryNyuk
@a_millar
& all at
#Balscadden
#SwimNorth
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I have covered
#VAW
for 20 years. There have been many watersheds, vigils, promises & darkest hours. In all that time, women have failed, on their own, to turn the cultural tides of misogyny & sexism that fuel male violence. Men can no longer stand by. It’s their time to rise 🙏
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In a newsroom, a legally fraught/complex/contentious story is often met with: can we hold it/consider it/reflect/ interrogate it more? Can’t help thinking the
@officialgaa
could have done with a proverbial time out to reflect on its petulant & personalised
#COVID19
response
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#AndJustLikeThat
the
#pandemic
was (apparently) over. But I couldn’t help but wonder, did they call that right?
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Retail assistant in Paris: do you come from Londonderry? Me: No, but not too far away, why do you ask? Ah, she replies, it’s the
#Derrygirls
We just love them over here... G’wan the girls 👏👏
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Thanks for all the lovely messages during my summer stand in stint
@RadioBrendanRTE
- especially to a little person who has promoted me to the ‘favourite out of all my mum’s friends’ 😂 Great team, great guests & great listeners as well - welcome back Brendan 🙌📻🎙 🙏
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When a man asks clear, strong questions, he is articulate. When a woman does? She is angry...
#8committee
Am watching Kate O'Connell question William Binchy at the Oireachtas abortion hearing. She cannot contain her anger.
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This is hilarious... British truckers “forced to watch” Irish lorries sail through Calais. You voted to leave mate 🤷♀️
British truckers forced to watch Irish lorries sail through Dover-Calais customs while they sit in queues under new Paris-Dublin deal;
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NOTHING prepares you for that first visit to the graveyard at Christmas after losing a loved one.
#RIPMum
Thinking of everyone mourning a loved one this Christmas 💔💙
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Waiting for the searing, insightful op-eds by influential men on the fear experienced by women & the shadow pandemic of abuse experienced by women and girls. The men asking men what they (men) need to do. They’ve been commissioned (by mostly male editors) They’re coming, right?
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Or, you know... As other police forces and essential agencies around the world have done, shown a bit of solidarity, Espirit de Corps, and God forgive us, some humour in these dark times. All about perpective, I guess?
This video is surely a fake? I mean, at a time when the Garda overtime bill is through the roof they’re surely not waisting taxpayers’ money trying to memorise dance routines?
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Not just in Ireland, but across Europe & further afield
@tconnellyRTE
is peerless in his coverage of
#Brexit
Public service broadcasting at its finest 👏
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Let’s not forget the huge breakthrough for
#WomenInPolitics
& women in public life that
@KamalaHarris
has made, and the dent of gratitude we owe to all of the women who made it possible for her & for future generations 👏
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Somebody has to be missing these two dotes, who were frolicking on
#JamesonBeach
yesterday evening. DM if you’ve lost your wee pals or know who they belong to
#Sutton
#Howth
#CliffPath
#Runaways
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When you hear those three magic words…. ‘You’re fully vaccinated’ 💉💙 Thank you science, thank you front-liners. Thinking of all those who lost loved ones to
#COVID19
who could not avail of this amazing feat of innovation and collaboration
#GratefulGirl
#inittogether
🙏
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Well played
#Balscadden
sea swimmers, well played 👏👏
#DryrobesWelcome
#WelcomeAll
#DaNorthside
🏊♀️🤗
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Waking up the day after your mum’s funeral 💔 Overwhelmed by all the love and support in recent days and we will respond to you all as soon as we can. Big love to
@deshocks
& her family on the loss of their lovely mum too. Grief is the price we pay for love 💙
If there were medals for mothers… we are so privileged to have had this lady as our mam. Now the final gathering begins 💙🙏
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Beyond excited... Starting 'Sunday with Dearbhail' this morning
@bbcradioulster
Make sure to join in the conversation
#Dearbhail
New this Sunday, Dearbhail McDonald (
@DearbhailDibs
) brings the best of in-depth current affairs, interviews, discussion and analysis. Including an essential guide to the Sunday papers.
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So very well played by Ireland’s Alan Joyce, CEO of
@Qantas
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Our competitors don't normally ask us for advice, but when an airline leader reached out, we couldn't ignore it.
Naturally, there was only one way to respond: CEO to CEO.
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My heart 💙
"I'm trying to give something back for everything Ireland has done for us"
One of the first Syrian refugees to have been resettled to Ireland has opened a pharmacy in a Co Carlow village, creating jobs for three local people.
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#Afghanistan
break your heart? Less than a week ago, we feared
#Kabul
could fall within 90 days, but the
#Taliban
strolled in in a matter of days. The women, the children, everyone 💔
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Flying home from London this morning & thinking of all the women who have journeyed before but no longer have to do so because they can receive the requisite healthcare and compassion they need at home
#8threpealed
#8thref
#ANewDawn
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When your neighbours’ kids find out you’re on crutches and leave this outside your door. I can’t even 💙😭
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This 👇
@DrMikeRyan
#COVID19
"It's not just
#COVID19
that is killing people,
it's underprivilege,
it's lack of access,
it's years of living with health conditions that haven't been properly managed because of the colour of your skin, or your ethnicity, or your social group"-
@DrMikeRyan
#HealthForAll
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2/2 I am indebted to all of those who shared their
#fertility
journeys & their expertise for
#FertilityShock
@RTEOne
I feel less lonely now having shared my own story - and having heard yours
#WeNeedToTalkAboutFertility
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The French /Parisian tradition of keeping the Christmas lights up throughout January has a certain appeal 💙
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That first
#MothersDay
without your mum 💔All the firsts hurt in their own peculiar ways, but are reminders, too, of happier days
#Grief
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Public education & active citizenship works. Ireland did its homework on
#8thref
The Citizens Assembly, the Oireachtas hearings, women telling their stories, empathy, years of campaigning in the wake of so much suffering. Gradually, then suddenly, Ireland became a better place 💙
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Attention
#seaswimmers
🌊🏊♀️🏊 Because we had such a blast last year, we’ll be doing
#Snamh4Mna
in aid of
@Womens_Aid
on January 6th to celebrate
#NollaigNamBan
A safe, socially distanced swim wherever you are, who is in? 🙏🏊♀️
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He gave my first break in broadcasting & we've had many battles on air. But honoured to join
#Vinb
for his final, all female panel 💁👠📺🍾
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And another great
#womaninmedia
there’s
@KatieGHannon
handling difficult conversations on
#Liveline
with professionalism, flair and empathy. We are blessed with great female on air talent tbf 👏👠🎧
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This is a must read…. ICU doctors speak out: ‘There’s no optimistic scenario. There’s only pessimism and carnage’
via
@IrishTimes
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Overwhelmed by all the good wishes - it will take me some time to reply to all the tweets, messages and emails I’ve received since yesterday. But heartfelt thanks to all 💙💙
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Social media companies are publishers, let’s stop pretending that isn’t the case. Imagine if a newspaper/tv/radio station published that racist abuse. It’s not enough to condemn the posters, surely the platforms have to be held to account too.
The FA has released a statement condemning the racist abuse England players have received on social after losing the final of Euro 2020.
The FA is “appalled” by the online racism aimed at England players.
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This is brilliant. Who is she??
I’ve literally been spontaneously bursting out laughing all day thinking about this TikTok.
Also, why is this half my family? 😅
#Ireland
🇮🇪
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