Stephen Moreau

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 This is the number of patients waiting for beds in #UHL They are left on trolleys today. No privacy. No dignity. No adequate treatment. This is not healthcare. This is not good enough. @CarrollJennifer @MichealMartinTD @HSELive @roinnslainte @SimonHarrisTD

Please take a minute to sign and share this petition. We all may need care at some point and are entitled to safe quality care, where concerns are welcomed and acted upon.. A recent Journal investigates report highlighted how families who raised concerns over the level of care provided to their loved one, were then threatened with eviction. This leads to an imbalance of power, where the nursing home has control over a persons place within the system. That imbalance of power needs to be corrected and it needs to be done now. #NursingHome #Disability #Evictions #HumanRightsDoNotGrowOld #Uplift my.uplift.ie/petitions/prot…

"You feel completely invisible." Sinéad’s 15-hour trolley ordeal at St. Vincent’s Hospital is a stark reminder that healthcare overcrowding isn't just a statistic, it’s a systemic failure stripping patients of their basic dignity. #ED #HospOverCrowding #TrolleyCrisis #Dignity #StVincents irishtimes.com/health/2026/05…

This is appalling @IrishRail

Just under two wks post surgery. Up going again. Off all pain meds starting PT sessions, of course smiling again. CHI wouldn’t even list her for this surgery said she wasn’t able. She may have a complex disability but that doesn’t mean she’s not strong.#scoliosis #spinehealth

@rte why am I watching coverage of the Eurovision song contest on the news if RTE are boycotting it?

RTÉ and other public service broadcasters in Slovenia and Spain will not show the Eurovision Song Contest this week as they boycott the event over Israel's participation. rte.ie/entertainment/…

The Double Cherry Magnum is amazeballs. Not easy to find but worth the hunt.

We fought for Harvey at 12 weeks pregnant when we got the diagnosis. We fought for Harvey at 36 weeks pregnant when they suggested withdrawing medical care at birth. We fought for Harvey when we found out he had severe scoliosis and had only been linked to an orthopaedic surgeon that deals with feet. We fought for Harvey when they dismissed my concerns around allergies-later diagnosed as anaphylactic. We fought for Harvey when they tried to provide a buggy instead of a wheelchair. We fought for Harvey when he had delays getting a suitable hospital bed for home. We fought for 5 years to get him a speech device so he could communicate. We fought for him to get scoliosis surgery. We fought for answers when we found out he was removed from the surgical list. Harvey is now gone and we will continue to fight for him, and for the other children and families facing these unnecessary and cruel battles. We fight because Harvey deserved better and we fight because that is what Harvey always did. If government or CHI think we will ever be quiet and just accept what has been allowed happen, they simply haven’t been paying attention. #JusticeForHarvey #NoChildWaiting #StatutoryInquiryNow @CarrollJennifer @SimonHarrisTD @CHI_Ireland @MichealMartinTD @SBH_PAG @scolionetwork @Stephen63224725

March 2025 → March 2026: •Surgeries: 123 → 109 (-11%) •Suspended: 40 → 52 (+30%) •Pre-admit (with dates): 20 → 13 (-35%) •Total list: 228 → 216 (-5%) Children aren’t being treated faster. They’re being moved between categories. @CarrollJennifer @SimonHarrisTD

Every February, 70% of the commercial honey bees in the United States, roughly two million colonies, are loaded onto lorries and driven to California. They are going to pollinate the almonds. 80% of the world's almonds come from one valley in California. Over 1.3 million acres of nothing but almond trees, blooming for three weeks in monoculture, requiring more pollinators than the state can produce on its own. So the bees are trucked in from every corner of the country. Florida. New York. Montana. The bees are fed sugar water for the journey because their own honey has been removed to lighten the load. They arrive in the Central Valley to a landscape that is, for three weeks, pink and white blossom, and for the other forty-nine weeks of the year, dead. Nothing to eat. No forage. No diversity. Just almond trees and bare dirt, sprayed regularly with fungicides and insecticides that were deemed bee-safe in adult bees but turn out to be lethal to larvae when combined. In February 2025, commercial beekeepers reported the worst die-off on record. Around 60% of commercial honey bee colonies in the United States dead in a single pollination season. Financial losses estimated well over $139 million. Some beekeepers lost 90 to 100% of their colonies. The almonds are marketed as plant-based. Clean. Ethical. The preferred alternative. The preferred alternative requires the single largest managed pollination event in human history and it is quietly killing the pollinators faster than they can be replaced. Every glass of almond milk is, statistically, a small contribution to the largest pollinator die-off on record. This is not in the advertising.

The HSE has issued a formal apology to families in the South-East after it was revealed that children have been forced to wait up to seven years for vital orthodontic services. The delay has been attributed to severe staffing shortages, with the service currently relying on a single consultant orthodontist and a dental nurse traveling from Waterford to Clonmel just a few days a month to conduct assessments. #HSE #orthodontist #Apology irishexaminer.com/news/arid-4181…

@the_beeguy Is it feasible to provide a “bumble-bee nest box” like you would a bird box?

…to the ground zig-zagging across the landscape. They’re house-hunting, stopping to explore in long grass and vegetation, hollows in trees, stone walls, under sheds and even compost heaps. During this time #bumblebee queens spend a lot of their time resting between flights. 4/9

It’s that time of year - folks asking us about #bumblebees - WHY THEY’RE SEEING THEM ON THE GROUND - so here’s a thread to explain. Please #retweet! Every queen that survives means a new colony that gets to exist & produce queen #bees for next year! So important to #share! 1/9

Where is the impact of increased funding ? The spinal business management unit ? The taskforce ? @CHI_Ireland Spinal Surgeries completed (by end of February) •Feb 2025: 87 •Feb 2026: 68 •↓ 19 surgeries (-21.8%) CHI Spinal Waiting list (end of February) •Feb 2025: 233 •Feb 2026: 229 •↓ 4 patients (-1.7%) A year on, surgical output has fallen by 22% while the waiting list remains static. Despite taskforces and funding, there is no measurable improvement in capacity. @CarrollJennifer @SimonHarrisTD @MichealMartinTD @SBH_PAG #BackUs

Direct-provision-centre firm #Aramark donated €30,000 towards the cost of a staff Christmas party for the operator of the three children’s hospitals in Dublin, it has emerged. Last week, Comptroller and Auditor General Seamus McCarthy told the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee the payment was made in 2022. #CHI irishtimes.com/health/2026/03…

@IrishRail is it policy for employees not to give their names when asked?

@IrishRail exactly why is the underpass from north to south (toilet access) closed right now? Stationmaster and lackey redirecting clients.

Confirmed today by the CHI CEO that it was Aramark who gifted CHI the €30,000, admitting it was wrong to originally accept it. Aramark, the same company that is fleecing parents of sick children in the hospital shops. #HowIrelandWorks

MISSING CHILD #DUBLIN💙 Eanna (15) left home in Crumlin/Kimmage this morning (Tues) to travel by 82 bus from the Ashleaf SC to School in the Wellington/Orwell/Spawell area of Templeogue D6W She didn’t arrive in school and she hadn’t taken her phone or her ATM card PLZ REPOST💙

My daughter needs critical surgery. And as her mam, there is no pain like knowing the help she needs is there… but still being unable to reach it because of money. That is the reality I live with every single day. Every day I wake up with this on my mind. Every day I look at Katie and wonder how much more pain she can take. Every day I carry the fear of knowing her future, her mobility, and her chance to keep walking all hang in the balance while we try to raise money that feels impossible. It is breaking me. Because as a mother, your instinct is to fix it. To protect your child. To take their pain away. To do whatever you have to do to make things better. But this… This is bigger than love alone can fix. And that is the most helpless feeling in the world. The surgery is there. The specialist is there. The need is there. The urgency is there. But money stands in the way. No mother should ever have to live with that. No mother should ever have to lie awake at night wondering if her daughter will lose more mobility, suffer more pain, or face a harder future simply because the money was not there in time. If love could fix Katie, she would have been fixed years ago. If fighting hard enough could fix this, we would not still be here. If a mother’s heartbreak counted for anything, my daughter would already have the surgery she needs. But here I am. Still fighting. Still begging people not to scroll past. Still asking for shares. Still praying that somehow enough people will care. Because this is not about giving Katie something extra. This is about giving my daughter a chance. A chance at less pain. A chance at keeping her mobility. A chance at a future that is not defined by suffering. And no matter how hard I try, no matter how much of myself I pour into this, it still feels like we can barely get off the starting block. That is the truth. I am exhausted. I am heartbroken. I am terrified. But I will keep fighting for my daughter for as long as I have breath in my body. So please, do not scroll past. Please share Katie’s story. Please help if you can. GoFundMe: gofundme.com/f/help-katie-g…⁠� Because this is not just a fundraiser. This is my daughter’s life.