Deirdre Maher

A great privilege to speak at Parliament today. Delighted so many MPs came to the APPG on #carers @mndcampaigns @CarersUK

🚨🇬🇧 BREAKING: British surgeon gives HORRIFYING testimony to the UK Parliament. He describes how IDF drones arrive right after airstrikes in Gaza, targeting and shooting the injured, including children, right on the spot. Repost this. Please I beg you

To Irish people and friends of Ireland, wherever you may be, happy Saint Patrick’s Day 🇮🇪 Do mhuintir na hÉireann agus do chairde na hÉireann pé áit a bhfuil sibh, Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh 🌍

A word to eternally treasure...

They raped a man. They gang-raped him. They raped him so brutally that he had to be hospitalized. Doctors documented the injuries. The video of the assault was leaked. Now the rapists are free. This is not just unlawful and immoral. It is sick! #ThisIsIsrael

Spoke to Katie Malone of Bohemians recently who spoke with conviction on Palestine, "Two years ago we had that game against Palestine, that was brilliant. You see what’s going on over there, it’s absolutely terrible. “You need to have those eyes on it..." 🧵1/2 #COYGIG

Get around @TOMMAHERSY who covered Ireland’s entire break both home and away this international break. A mammoth effort and some outstanding coverage 🇮🇪

No fresh injury concerns reported for France by head coach Laurent Bonadei. All four goalkeepers in training this evening. Selma Bacha and Naomi Feller, not with the squad. #COYGIG 🇮🇪 v 🇫🇷

I was delighted to speak with @miadodd18 recently, she spoke on: • Ambitions to bring silverware to the women’s team at Rovers 🟢⚪️ • Training in Phoenix Park 🏃🏻‍♀️ • The pathway to the WNT from the LOI 🛣️ • Midfield greats ⚽️ #COYGIG🇮🇪☘️ thehalfwayline.com/2026/02/08/mia…

Had the pleasure of speaking to Aoibheann Clancy last week, she spoke on: • First time meeting Carla Ward 👩‍💼 • Shelbourne’s season ahead 🐚 • Finding inspiration in her younger self & in Irish legends 🇮🇪 • Playing in the 6, the 8 & the 10 🪄 #COYGIG thehalfwayline.com/2026/02/04/aoi…

Remember, all these countries once had their own culture and traditions before Islam.

Shared by a foreign correspondent for Channel 4 News. To everybody who contributed to the campaign to make Erfan Soltani famous, you have to know that you just saved somebody’s life. An eternity of gratitude. But it’s not over, we must keep saying his name until he is released.

No less than 3 UK papers have a front page pic of the same (blonde) Iranian protestor murdered by Iranian security forces. Not one of these papers has ever humanised a single one of the tens of thousands of women and girls murdered in the Gaza Strip in this way.

To whom it may concern... A humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding in Gaza right now. Now Heavy rainstorm is hitting Gaza..These are my children’s tents All I ask is that people share the post. 3 replies — even dots — can save my children 💔 donation chuffed.org/project/154635…

“I keep asking how we became such monsters, uncapable of stopping this nightmare.” -Francesca Albanese @FranceskAlbs

Roald Dahl on Measles: Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. 'Are you feeling all right?' I asked her. 'I feel all sleepy,' she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was...in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunised against measles. ...I dedicated two of my books to Olivia, the first was ‘James and the Giant Peach’. That was when she was still alive. The second was ‘The BFG’, dedicated to her memory after she had died from measles. You will see her name at the beginning of each of these books. And I know how happy she would be if only she could know that her death had helped to save a good deal of illness and death among other children. Roald Dahl, 1986

Masih Alinejad, an Iranian-American journalist used to live under Sharia Law in Iran. She shares her experience “In Iran, I was told, if I take off my hijab I will be hanged with my hair by God. I'll get kicked out from school. I'll get lashes. I'll get jailed. I'll get fined. I'll get beaten up in the street every day by morality police. If I get raped, it's my fault. If I take off my hijab, I won't be able to exist as a woman in my homeland. In the West, I am told if I share my stories, then I will cause Islamophobia. I am a woman from the Middle East, and I am scared of Islamic laws. I am scared of all the brutalities that I have experienced. Phobia is an irrational fear, but my fear and the fear of millions of other women who lived under Sharia law in the Middle East is rational.”

Today marks the 33rd missing anniversary of Steven Clark, and we refresh our appeal for any new information on his whereabouts. Steven, aged 23 at the time, was last seen in #MarskeByTheSea, #Cleveland, on 28 December 1992. We are thinking of his loved ones at this time. Seen Steven? Please come forward with your sightings. #findStevenClark misspl.co/Mvvx50XJH1C

We are Afghan women—trapped in silence, stripped of dreams, forgotten by the world. Every day feels like a life sentence for simply being born female. Please don’t look away. Lend us your voice. Your care can give us hope.💔

The government’s treatment of the young people in prison associated with Palestine Action is shaming our country in the eyes of the world. theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/d…

A year has passed since the detention of my father, In this white coat, he walked alone amidst death, destruction, and in front of tanks—not because he was fearless, but because his oath and his humanity were greater than any fear. He refused to abandon the children and the wounded at Hospital , and for that, he was detained. This image is a testament to the courage of the man who was the last line of defense for life, and it is the very same scene that ended with his unjust arrest. A full year of injustice has passed. Today, we ask for nothing but his freedom. Please share his story to keep his voice alive.