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Writing in @thejournal.ie this morning about the need to be honest with ourselves in deciding how our beautiful city of Galway evolves over the coming years, in light of recent legislation and High Court judgements. Now is the time for responsible decision making. www.thejournal.ie/prev/6598715...

Twas Christmas Eve babe And the midwives still had to come into the full antenatal waiting room to ask partners to give their seats to pregnant women standing And the bells were ringing out for Christmas time

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In Ireland we're so busy firefighting all the problems around the basics (housing, healthcare, transport, education provision), that we can't seem to set a vision for the future of the society we actually want to live in. #ge24

Listening to #LateDebate and it is as though the FG/FF reps on are delivering reports from a different planet. Instead of acknowledging that our health system’s biggest problem is that we treat expert staff so badly that they are refusing to work here, they are asserting there is *no* problem.

Yes, libraries are invaluable for their collections and public services they offer, but also social contact without the expectation to interact with anyone or spend any money is so important to so many people

✨Little reminder that Aontu exists because Peadar Tóibín resigned from Sinn Fein because of its support for Repeal. They want to seriously curtail women’s access to abortion, and would overturn repeal if they could.✨

This photo speaks a thousand words #GeneralElection2024

What an achievement vaccines are. What a monument to our love for each other it is to stare straight into the face of something as horrific and unstoppable as smallpox or measles or polio or cervical cancer and say “You know what, it doesn’t have to be like this.” HUMANS!

‘I stand by my original statement: we ARE never gonna survive unless we get a little crazy.’