RT @dwnews: Radical right-wing movements like Germany's AfD party are on the rise worldwide. They are united by nationalism, populism, and…

RT @mulvanypeopleb1: Back in today for an eye test and as a family carer you not entitled to the same benefits as someone who “Works” so it…

@E71HRG Unbearable cruelty.

RT @AmDevlinUCC: Great initiative by @DigitalPolicyIE to highlight (in) accessibility of university campuses. Love to see this replicated n…

@AmDevlinUCC Oh wow. Thank you for this.

Online event next week @ucc

German Studies Journal, call for submissions to Indo-German @OxfordGerman @ags_tweets @GermanAbdn @CritGerStudiesC @ExpandingGerman @germaninireland

Screening at @UCC on #HolocaustRemembranceDay, January 27th at 16:00. All welcome.

A very important letter on gender in academia in today’s @IrishTimes

There is an urgent need for a Minister of Disabilities. We have a number of redundant ministries: Finance and Public Expenditure could be combined; similarly Education and Higher Education @MichealMartinTD @SimonHarrisTD

@LifeTenement Jemmy Gunnery was a hero.

RT @SabbySabs2: Once again, the Resnicks own MOST of the water in California. No one should own most of the water in any state! https://t.c…

@LBFlyawayhome Based loosely on

RT @AccessForAll7: Sophia has wanted to make this video as she is fed up waiting for @DubCityCouncil to fix the footpath and access out sid…

Great piece by Sarah Horgan in today’s @irishexaminer on Cork Deaf Enterprises (with thanks to @McSweeneyProf for the h/t!)

Today at 4pm

If TDs’ and MEPs’ salaries and pensions are not means tested, why is disability allowance? Why is carers’ allowance? @MichealMartinTD @HollyCairnsTD @ivanabacik

Great talk this evening for the @ucc Life Writing research cluster by Jakob Summerer looking at the use of metaphors in the articulation & treatment of eating disorders and in eating disorder memoirs. If you’d like to give a talk about any aspect of life writing, get in touch.

When snow is spawning against the windows, and we are warm inside, I think of my mother's quoting Louis MacNeice: collateral and incompatible with more than glass between us

@IrishDeafSoc @cisli_ireland @LabourParty Has the @labour decided to abolish means testing for Deaf people’s social welfare? Will it give Deaf people an equipment allowance to cover the cost of hearing aids? Or should deafness mean poverty? That’s right. If you’re in work, you pay for your own aids, with a small grant,