M Ní Raghallaigh
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Associate Professor of Social Work; research related to refugees, unaccompanied minors & integration; Co-Chair, UCD University of Sanctuary committee #Gaeilge
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New publication! Huge thanks to
@zoe_h_oreilly
for leading on it and to all of the co-authors:
@pinar_aksu5
@ochieng_ogutu
@KirkwoodSteve
@HeidarAlHashimi
@BulelaniMfaco
@HyabYohannes
, Helen Baillot, Ahmad Albtran, Zuhair Al-Fakir, Azad Izzeddin, Tandy Nicole & Angham Younes
Delighted that our article 'Building an Ethical Research Culture: scholars of refugee background researching refugee-related issues' has just been published in the Journal of Refugee Studies!
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Can’t get out of my head all the generations of unvetted men from Ireland who have arrived as migrants in countries around the world ….. 🤷🏻♀️
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I’m awake early soaking in some great news:
I’ve been promoted to Associate Professor / Senior Lecturer
@ucddublin
😊
Having a permanent academic job is a real privilege in itself so I really appreciate how lucky I am. 🙏 And very grateful to all who helped and supported me!
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People of
#Ballinrobe
(and of every town protesting against accommodation centres) - watch this (and check the thread) and think about your history of ‘unvetted military age men’ leaving your town in search of a better life.
Ballinrobe in 1989, when the locals emigrated rather than protested against refugees.
Here are the opening 2 mins of the report.
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Hugely disappointing to see this-
@NGIreland
cafe to be run by Aramark who profit hugely from many
#DirectProvision
centres. I guess I’ll be adding this to the list of cafes I’ll no longer visit. Well done to the staff for fighting this
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I live in hope that the majority of people in
#Roscrea
want to be welcoming of newcomers.
It may be hard, but please be brave and stand up and say
#RefugeesWelcome
. The people who arrived in Roscrea today need to hear your voice loud and clear.
Especially the children.
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People who organise and attend a protest where ‘get them out’ is being chanted in this way have absolutely no interest in ‘consultation’ and would almost certainly object to female refugees too, especially if they were not from the ‘right’ countries. This is
#Racism
Locals say they want answers as to why “no women and children” refugees were moved into the area and that “adult unvetted males” arrived with no consultation. Protestors in East Wall have blocked the road outside building that housed refugees that arrived last night”
#Dublin
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Local residents in Co Clare ‘want assurances that no more male asylum seekers will be brought there’. 🤦🏻♀️
@morningireland
Men; young men. Fathers, brothers, uncles, sons.
Just like our fathers, brothers, uncles, & sons who left Ireland for a better life.
#RefugeesWelcome
#Clare
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‘[The locals] are afraid of what they will encounter from now on with every sort of stranger in the area that they don’t know’
So: reach out; get to know those arriving; make friendships; learn they are people very like you, with families, in search of safety + a better life.
Protesters gather at Galway hotel over plans to house 70 asylum seekers | Read more:
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Delighted to welcome
@ProsperaTedam
to
@ucddublin
as she starts her position as Professor in Social Work!
Céad Míle Fáilte!
We in
@UCDSocialPWJ
are very much looking forward to working with you!
@ucddublin
@ucdsocscilaw
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Thanks to the
@irishexaminer
for publishing my opinion piece outlining some key principles that I believe should be considered when supporting refugees (either as a 'host' or when working in hotels or other frontline services)
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Delighted to be in receipt of an
@IrishResearch
New Foundations award for research on "Perspectives of refugees on questions of participation, power and ethics in research" in partnership with
@masi_asylum
& the
@IrishRefugeeCo
and colleagues in
@UCDSocialPWJ
&
@EdinburghUni
76 New Foundations awards announced today by Minister
@SimonHarrisTD
, supporting collaboration between researchers and community/voluntary organisations. Congratulations to all our new awardees!
#LoveIrishResearch
@The_Wheel_IRL
@Dochasnetwork
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Could we try to get
#AfghanFamilyReunification
trending? Imagine the absolute fear and dread members of the Afghan community in Ireland must be feeling right now.
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Thoughts and prayers with the children and adults injured and impacted by the awful attack earlier.🙏
Also, thoughts and prayers with migrants and ethnic minorities: you are welcome in Ireland, you enrich our country. Please know that, despite what you see tonight.
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I really hope this is seen by the international protection applicants who have had to endure chants of ‘get them out’ outside their accommodation over recent weeks and months.
#RefugeesWelcome
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So, pre-recording lectures teaches me that I say 'so' a lot. At the beginning of each slide in fact. So, there you go. And no, I will resist the temptation to re-record them having made this discovery. The students I teach 'live' presumably already know this about me! So.
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Looking forward to the launch of our briefing paper this morning
Of relevance to people of refugee background, academics, students, journalists, NGO staff
DM for a copy of the report
#EthicalResearch
@IrishRefugeeCo
@masi_asylum
@IrishResearch
@uoessps
@UCDSocialPWJ
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If clubs/orgs are publicizing that Ukrainians are warmly welcome, I think tweaking the communication slightly to say you welcome Ukrainians and all people of a refugee background would be great!
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Try to imagine arriving in a new country having left loved ones and difficult and often traumatic circumstances - no matter what your nationality, or your gender or your age - and this is what you see when you look out the window?
#RefugeesWelcome
Ballymun right now. This needs intervention
Chanting “get them out” & “send them home” as young families look out frightened (a woman with 2 young kids sent us this).
This is utterly sickening.
The centre is a small number of mothers and kids.
Ireland is better than this 😢
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Heartbreaking to hear Kitty Holland describe the Indian man who was full of chat prior to the attack but silent afterwards as he began packing up his tent. Someone presumably just wanting peace and a decent life. Living in a tent in Ireland in 2023, attacked by racists.
Reporter KittyHolland is on
@morningireland
talking about witnessing an attack on a campsite in Dublin where migrants are living. Here is her news report from the scene.
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I gave up chocolate for lent. I think in the circumstances I should just admit failure and eat chocolate for the next few weeks/months. Anyone agree??
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This is a cross that my mum received in 1949 from her grandmother for her first communion. She gave it to me for my communion and yesterday I passed it on to my daughter. All of our initials and dates of our first communion are on it! ❤️
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Important to highlight that Gardaí have confirmed that
#GeorgeNkencho
had no previous convictions, contrary to widely circulated claims that he had 30 previous convictions.
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Extremely worrying report on
@drivetimerte
re conditions for asylum seekers in
#DirectProvision
and emergency accommodation. Social distancing impossible!
#MoveTheVulnerableOut
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Very concerning to hear this. Social work needs a diverse workforce, with diversity including people with ‘lived experience’. We all bring our backgrounds to our work and ‘difficult’ experiences & resilience in navigating them can be hugely valuable assets in social work.
Spoke to a social worker in Dublin earlier looking for advice on how to get into social work in Ireland. They didn't know me personally but they "knew of me" their words not mine. She went to explain that given my "difficult background" I would apparently struggle to be one
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Great turnout today in
@ucddublin
as we reasserted our commitment to valuing all members of the UCD community and to standing in solidarity with migrant and ethnic minority groups. Great to see the event organised so quickly in light of last weeks events.
@UCD_EDI
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Overheard my daughter at the end of a zoom party laughing and telling her friends my mam is going to look funny at her next meeting..... promptly forgot until I attempted to join our whole school meeting .....
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From my window I spotted a man in his seventies, struggling with his shopping. He stopped to take a break, leaning against a wall. My heart broke. Went out and carried the bags to his house, keeping socially distant. Have no idea if I did the right thing. Now I'm in floods
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Nice start to the week - article in Journal of Refugee Studies
@OxfordJournals
co-authored with
@mkarensmith1
& Jennifer Scholtz - looking forward to sharing it soon!
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Imagine being a lone parent of a 1 year old, giving birth, leaving hospital to b&b accommodation, having to leave at 10am each morning. As you recover from childbirth. With a toddler. Adeola’s story as reported by
@KittyHollandIT
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Please RT Minister Flanagan
@CharlieFlanagan
please move the most vulnerable people out of
#DirectProvision
centres NOW
#MoveTheVulnerableOut
#COVID19ireland
@SanctuaryRunner
@IrishRefugeeCo
@NascIreland
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My lovely uncle died during the week and it’s really nice to read the messages on especially those from his past pupils. These two especially will stay with me and tell of the huge difference that teachers make in the lives of their pupils
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For anyone considering fostering unaccompanied minors including from Ukraine, this new publication might be of interest/help. DM me with your email and I can send. Unfortunately not avail online
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Ps. I guess I should try to explain how it is pronounced if you are thinking in English - Shhknock-ta ??
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My daughter (2nd class) was upset earlier to hear her brother (JI) would be back at school before her. Now we are hearing it may be up to 2nd class back first. But maybe it won't. Politicians: please just stop flying kites. Meet, make a decision, inform us.
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Great piece by
@KittyHollandIT
about
@Thomasod10
demonstrating the importance of a parent's love, a social worker's care, a YouthReach coordinator's belief, funding from Tusla to overcome financial barriers, & most importantly, Thomas' determination.
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Coverage of our research report on the needs of refugee children by Sarah Burns in today’s
@IrishTimes
#SafeHaven
@mkarensmith1
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I’m very nervous about return to face to face teaching but it is nonetheless lovely to feel the buzz around
@ucddublin
today as students move into accommodation and others graduate!
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Logged onto zoom for a meeting and to find myself looking like this thanks to my 8 year olds zoom skills from the previous evening!!!
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Migrants? Refugees?
PEOPLE!!
Individuals with hopes and dreams; individuals fleeing conflict; individuals with careers and education; individuals with a past and a future; individuals with mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, sons and daughters
So tragic.
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Why is the department contributing to the negative narrative about 'single' male asylum seekers by saying this? "The resident breakdown will be for families and single females. This will not be a centre for single males."
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"He (Trump) is the manifestation of the ugliness that is in us"
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Very welcome that unaccompanied minors would not move to shared adult accommodation at 18 (many move from foster care to DP now) and that they would get legal support to apply for refugee status as early as possible
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Can we all just respond to the minister’s tweet with messages of congratulations to show that the racists are a minority? Just imagining the two boys being delighted that a minister has tweeted about them and then they see the replies questioning their Irishness 😔
Brilliant! Two Irish students have won first prize at this year's European Union Contest for Young Scientists.
Congratulations Aditya Kumar and Aditya Joshi. You have done Ireland proud
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1. Our colleague Dr
@hildaloughran
is retiring today after working for 32 years at
@ucddublin
. We want to wish her the very very best for her retirement, we hope it is filled with health, happiness & fulfillment. We thank her for her dedication & influential contributions.
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Opinion piece I wrote for
@IrishTimesOpEd
'Ireland can & should accept
#refugee
children'
#unaccompaniedminors
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To everyone at
@dublinbusnews
, especially the number 4, 7b and 7d drivers, Happy Christmas / Nollaig Shona from Naoise and Réiltín- thanks for all the waves during the year!
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Updated endorsement by social work academics from across the island of Ireland of the Irish Association of Social Workers' statement on
#Gaza
. We also endorse the
@IASW_IRL
call for the International Federation of Social Workers
@IFSW
to issue a similar statement.
IASW calls for an end to the indiscriminate killing of innocent civilians in Gaza.
Read the full statement here:
@IFSW
@VGeiran
@CIJ_ICJ
@UN
@UNHumanRights
@irishredcross
@volker_turk
@cronin132
@Sineadmcgar
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Beautiful Irish translation of ‘If I must die’, a poem by Palestinian Professor Refaat Al-Areer who was killed in an Israeli air strike earlier this week.
Translation by Macdara ó Graham.
.
@AliAbunimah
in case you are interested, a good friend of mine translated Refaat's poem into Irish.
#RefaatAlareer
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Fantastic turnout for family cycle today- great support for Deansgrange bike lane
@BikeDeansgrange
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Lucky Khambule of
@masi_asylum
outlining on
@morningireland
how terrified international protection applicants camping at the IPO are and calls on urgent action from
@rodericogorman
before someone is killed
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Congratulations to our Social Work Masters students on their graduation today - lovely to see everyone and to celebrate your fantastic achievement! Have a wonderful evening celebrating!!
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Important to note that this isn’t a change in policy. Direct provision is used for asylum seekers, not for resettled refugees.
NEW: Afghan refugees will not have to go into direct provision upon their arrival into Ireland.
There is also ‘no question’ that any people with a deportation order to Afghanistan will be actually deported.
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I would not like to be in this situation.
But consider the concern that parents in
#DirectProvision
have for their children’s welfare living in a room together for YEARs.
And it took YEARs for our politicians & the general public to stand up and say it was not appropriate.
A family of five have lodged an appeal against their mandatory hotel quarantine saying the facilities are not fit for purpose.
Michelle O'Dowd says she has serious concerns about the welfare of her 14, 10 and 9 yr olds if they've to remain in quarantine for twelve days
@rtenews
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Fuming. Lit review in an international journal cites my work (in Ireland) but categorizes it as being in the United Kingdom / Great Britain. How did three authors, at least two reviewers and an editor not know the difference / spot this?
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I feel sick, disheartened and frightened that Casey got 21% of the vote in exit poll. I cannot imagine how Travellers must feel.
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Ms Gleeson: let’s be clear, the ‘pressure’ our housing & homeless system is under is NOT because of refugees and family reunification. You really need to clarify this. Irresponsible.
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Shared this before but sharing it again as it is an excellent response
“If they really are refugees, why don’t they have to stay in the first safe country they reach?”
“Why don’t they just claim asylum in France?”
Here is my answer, once & for all. To Jonathan Gullis, and to everyone else who ever wondered.
#RefugeesWelcome
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Question: What factors in the educational system - at primary, secondary and third level- result in students not getting a dyslexia diagnosis until they are on a masters programme? This happens every year.
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When I think of the many people hosting Ukrainian families, this quote from a foster carer caring for unaccompanied minors keeps coming to my mind:
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The
@DeptJusticeIRL
urgently needs to clarify the last sentence of first para. There is an existing ‘culture of disbelief’ re asylum seekers and the Dept saying they arrive ‘seeking accommodation’ rather than seeking international protection is seriously concerning
A statement from the Department of Justice & Equality on the situation in
#Oughterard
can be read here:
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We are very busy getting ready to show solidarity with refugees!!
#RefugeesWelcome
It's time to come out in a show of peaceful and determined solidarity, to stand with our refugee and migrant communities and oppose the latest iteration of anti-refugee hate.
📆TODAY the 6th February
⏰1.30pm
📌Outside the GPO
#RefugeesWelcome
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Delighted to have chapter on
#Integration
of asylum seeking &
#refugee
children in this new Research Handbook on Child Migration, edited by J. Bhabha, J. Kanics & D Senovilla Hernández - Irish colleagues Ciara Smyth & Rebecca O Donnell also have chapters
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Glendalough with the moon to be seen as the sun starts to peak over the mountains
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Absolutely horrendous conditions being reported from outside the IPO by
@AilbheConneely
on
@morningireland
- inhumane conditions, no sanitation, disease, no food or water.
Heartbreaking for the men involved.
Volunteers overwhelmed too.
Action needed.
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Launch and Webinar announcement:
Monday 27th June 12.30 - 14:00
'Research involving people of refugee background: considerations for ethical engagement'
Further details and to register:
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Great to see the people of
#DunLaoghaire
and surrounding areas turning out to give a loud clear
#RefugeeWelcome
message
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‘It’s beyond belief that the world is allowing this to continue’
"I'm furious.
Furious that those with power shrug at the humanitarian nightmares unleashed on 1 mil. children.
Furious that disease is as well-armed as the warring parties, but it gets no attention.”
-
@1james_elder
for
@UNICEF
, with
@DrMargaretH
for
@WHO
, briefing on
#Gaza
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Given
#FathersDay
falls on
#WorldRefugeeDay
I’m thinking of all of the dads who are refugees. Wishing them a happy Father’s Day and a future that gives them peace, hope, and a bright future for themselves and their families.
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Excited to receive my copy of this Research Handbook on Child Migration published by
@ElgarPublishing
in which I have a chapter on the integration of asylum seeking &
#refugee
children
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Sickening seeing the protests in Mullingar
Government really needs to engage with local anti-racism groups immediately when accommodation is being organized so that the message of welcome - which I firmly believe is the message of the majority - can be fore-fronted.
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Interested in doing a PhD with me in relation to
#Refugees
#AsylumSeekers
#UnaccompaniedMinors
or various aspects of
#SocialWork
practice? Get in touch!
Interested in doing a PhD with us in September? Apply now!
#SocialPolicy
#SocialWork
#SocialJustice
Details are available here:
@ucdsocscilaw
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It really might be wise not to report on any details of a person arrested, including nationality, until the person is actually charged with the offence.
Gardaí have eliminated a 40-year-old man from their inquiries into the murder of Ashling Murphy in Tullamore, Co Offaly.
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One would have to feel a sense of pride in Ireland for the regularization scheme announced yesterday. So many countries are making migration and claiming asylum more difficult. Well done to all those who campaigned for this.
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Delighted to have this case study published in the new
@UCDforALL
Universal Design for Learning publication
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I was at a family funeral in Carraroe yesterday and I learnt that graves there are dug by neighbours and friends of the deceased. A last favour for a friend. A lovely tradition.
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Can’t comprehend it. Trying to understand how someone could have so little empathy as to do this to migrants who are homeless, living in tents, away from everyone. None of the myths that they are ‘taking our houses’ etc even apply. 🤷🏻♀️
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Heartened by the strong
#RefugeeWelcome
message in
#DunLaoghaire
today
#F
áilte
#IrelandForAll
@DLWelcomes
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En route to
@SWSP_TCD
for one day symposium on understanding the needs of children in care and care leavers to mark the retirement of my former lecturer, PhD supervisor and career mentor Professor Robbie Gilligan
@RobbieGilligan
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Anyone else have this as a kid? Loved it! Our dog chewed the petrol pump nozzle though which meant it no longer fitted into the cars!!
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I dedicate this award to..... "every child in care today, or who has been in care, or is suffering or who didn't survive"
#CareAware
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My surname is 'Ní Raghallaigh' - it's very nice to have my work cited but please don't cite me as 'Raghallaigh'. Lesson for us all (including me) - let's not assume anything re names. Find out what's correct!!
#getthenameright
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Huge congrats to
@romolusa
for passing her PhD Transfer Assessment Panel today and thanks to
@BryanFanning
@Joe0712
& Krisna Ruette-Orihuela for serving on the panel. Rom's PhD is on the experiences of Black social workers in Ireland - a hugely important study!
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@SimonHarrisTD
Congratulations Aditya and Aditya. As the minister says you have done Ireland proud! Enjoy the celebrations and wishing you every success in the future
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Really great day marking the retirement of Professor Robbie Gilligan! Honored to be part of it! Thanks
@RobbieGilligan
Happy retirement (and see you next week, working!!)
En route to
@SWSP_TCD
for one day symposium on understanding the needs of children in care and care leavers to mark the retirement of my former lecturer, PhD supervisor and career mentor Professor Robbie Gilligan
@RobbieGilligan
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Our webinar on Building an ethical research culture: Scholars of refugee background researching refugee-related issues takes place next Monday the 27th from 3-4.30 pm. Registration at this link:
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Finished work early so my daughter could have two friends to the garden to celebrate her birthday! We have nobody over since last summer so the laughter and chat is music to my ears!
#reopening
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Often during this pandemic I feel we are getting some insight into a tiny part of what life must be like as a refugee or living in a war zone - worried about safety; worried about food supplies; kids unable to go to school; so much uncertainty; losing loved ones. 1/2
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Delighted to have an article published in this with
@maeveforeman
about transitions from
#DirectProvision
(Thanks to
@GloriaKirwan
editor of the issue!)
Latest issue of Social Work & Social Sciences Review. Free access to selected articles until April 17th
Second part of series on ‘Research with hard-to-reach groups’ in UK, USA, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.
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