Alison Reynolds

@DalrympleWill @EmpirePodUK Taught not thought.... darned auto correct. Time to just eat shoots and leaves 🫣

@DalrympleWill @EmpirePodUK Thoroughly enjoying this series. I'd suggested it on the feedback last year, clearly remember Nell McCafferty had just died. Will have to listen to Colm Toibin again, so many nuggets we were never thought in school. Fascinating view on historians balancing radicalism. GRMA

New from @EmpirePodUK: Our series on Empire & Ireland continues- THE GREAT HUNGER- Part one- The Arrival of the Potato Blight With the great Colum Toibin

@Majellabeattie1 @DrTonyHolohan He's a book out for Christmas

RTE made changes to the programme due to be aired tonight. Vicky's solicitors called out the 'manifestly' untrue statements made by @DrTonyHolohan and references that we should be guided by the high and supreme Court as to what constitutes medical negligence.

@GarNob @ncseirl Very little experience with SENOs but the game playing was remarkable. I subtly complemented them on it. Told it's all down to the inefficient resource allocation by the principals and I have to demand what my child needs. Are there any genuine SENOs out there?

The game playing that certain Special Educational Needs Officers with @ncseirl engage in with parents over school places has to be seen to be believed. Just seen an email chain. Pathetic and unlawful. It’s the same with supporting schools in meeting children’s needs and rights.

People will say, ‘we didn’t have Autism in my day’ and ignore the fact that in their day, there were people who: didn’t allow guests in their home, ate the same food everyday, wore different variations of the same outfit every day, were experts on a few niche subjects, …

@NeurodIreland @AodhanORiordain Very real. Dual diagnosis.

@DavQuinn Perhaps your contempories don't act like they you'd expect someone to act if they were repressed? Maybe ask them if they were, they'd appreciate your concern.

We are now being led to believe that the average Irish person was being repressed by the Church right into the 1990s. I was born in the 1960s and I can assure you that few if any of my contemporaries, male or female, seemed too 'repressed'.

@CatrionaGolden If there's a diagnosis, in cover letter put that the Disability Act 2005 states that child is entitled to support. Advise per KOD.

What they did to Noel Browne for trying to do the right thing is exactly what they do to every single whistleblower except they have it even worse #whistleblowing

@Liz_ORiordan I enjoyed it mainly. Agree the ending was a letdown. Thought America Ferrera was especially good. Film is making a point about how women are seen. If it makes older girls/ tweens think twice about conforming to social pressure, that's a result.

Saw Barbie. Average 2/5. First half OK. Ending was a real let down. Far too many cameos of underused talent.

@AsIAmIreland @DCU @DCUautism @AsIAmUniAward Great idea

@cmaemcclean @RTENewsAtOne @McNiffecent Shouldn't be the school's responsibility. Parents are responsible for their children’s welfare. Who'd clean the helmets... be a lot of scratchy heads

@RTENewsAtOne @McNiffecent Maybe if schools had a helmet scheme going where children could borrow a helmet for a period of time...it could be cleaned and lent out to another child then? What happens to all helmets children outgrow? Reusing might help keep cost down for families?

A consultant in Paediatric Emergency Medicine has called for the wearing of helmets on bicycles to be made a legal requirement - Dr Carol Blackburn at CHI Crumlin says if she cld prescribe a helmet for every child in Ireland she wld...more at rte.ie/radio/podcasts…

We woke up this morning to read this statement by our Taoiseach @LeoVaradkar This is a horrible #ableist slur to use to denigrate anyone. Using anyone’s disability whether physical or intellectual as a put down impacts us all in the disabled community. Once again we are the butt of the joke, shame on you! @FineGael @AsIAmIreland @DisabilityFed @InclusionIre @centralremedial @SBHIreland @ILMIreland @fussireland @adayinmywheels @WaterfordDN @_DPIreland @DADACampaign @AnneRabbitte @rodericogorman @LeCheileDND @autselfadvocacy #abelism #hurtful #DisabilityRights #DisabilityInclusion

@AccessForAll7 @sadhbh_dwyer @LeoVaradkar @WaterfordDN @mulvanypeopleb1 I hope this gains momentum, deplorable language. Sums up the thinking in the upper eiteleàns 😡

@sadhbh_dwyer @LeoVaradkar @WaterfordDN @mulvanypeopleb1 The days of us and our community hiding in the shadows afraid to speak up and call it out are over. We are filled with rage today off the back of this statement so we will use that rage to call this out and show people how unacceptable this is. Shame on him not us.

@AccessForAll7 @LeoVaradkar @WaterfordDN @mulvanypeopleb1 Not surprising but still disappointing. Absolutely unacceptable from the leader of this country. Who do they think they are.

@evers_deirdre @Luighseach To protect the child's identity

@Luighseach Why not name & shame him?

@1rorycowan @gavreilly Unfortunately Keith advocates for ABA. Look it up, you wouldn't let them near your dog. Let alone children. Anything trying to change or eliminate autism is wrong.

@gavreilly Well done. I remember Keith Duffy making the exact same point, years ago, about early intervention being so important. For some reason that point always stuck with me. There’s an urgency there that needs to override cuts, budgets, etc.

@gavreilly Only got round to listening to this. Wow. Powerful 8 minutes. I laughed and cried. All too true. Says it all when the minister can be refused a meeting with her staff.

@MrNickRansom @RohitDoel @BBCSport Keep telling em!!

@RohitDoel @BBCSport Only ‘cause I told them 😂

Well done @BBCSport :) #ActuallyAutistic

@wardtours @Luighseach May the Lord show you compassion in your time of need 🙏

@Luighseach 28 stab wounds, watched a another woman & her family go through hell all those years and said NOTHING.