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@conor_pope Tiny tears and first love dolls probably! There also was the year I got the girls world styling head! Magical times.

What is the best ,most memorable present you woke up to on Christmas morning as a child? For me it was either Subbuteo or the Lone Ranger and Silver.

@Daytobehappy Joyce Joyce Joyce, do people like you really exist? This Ma you mourn, did she know you were a racist before she died?

24 years after 9/11 and they haven't been able to identify any part of my mother because nothing probably exists after she went down 86 floors in the South Tower. This is all I have namely an urn given to 9/11 families with dust and ashes from Ground Zero and tonight New York voted in Mamdani!

@AllianceBirth Did they not engage with her throughout her pregnancy? It should have been that the social worker worked with her to secure some form of sheltered housing. Are there other issues at play here?

𝐔𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐲 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐲 This morning, Tusla social workers arrived on the maternity ward where the mother we wrote about yesterday is admitted. The mother was brought into a side room where they served papers ordering her to appear in court on Friday morning for a hearing to take her newborn into Care. Not one of the social workers asked her how she was feeling after giving birth. They simply asked how the delivery went and how the baby is doing. A birth should be a time of joy and celebration. Instead, within 30 hours of giving birth, this mother has been subjected to what she believes to be harassment and intimidation by those who should, in her opinion be offering her comfort, support and reassurance that everything possible will be done to keep her and her baby together . She is breastfeeding her baby and instead of contentment, she is living in constant fear that her baby will be taken from her on Friday. We in the Alliance of Birth Mothers Campaigning for Justice have seen this pattern too many times before. The decision to remove this baby was made long before the birth. Based on our observations over the last seven years, on  Friday morning the mother will arrive at court alone and without legal representation. A solicitor will be assigned at the last minute so that the system can claim she was represented. This solicitor will play the game, knowing that challenging Tusla means losing future contracts. He will not follow her instructions and if she interjects, she wouldn’t be viewed as petulant and this will be used against her as another #weapon to take her baby.  The mother’s “crime” is that she grew up in the Care system and is now homeless. She has no addiction issues, no history of harm, and no one to advocate for her inside the courtroom. We have seen this again and again. Mothers who were once in Care find that the same social workers who removed them as children now appear in their maternity wards to take their babies. The system is built to sustain itself, not to support families. It is driven by money, contracts, and institutional self-preservation. A mother and baby in crisis should receive support, not surveillance. The right intervention here would be a placement in one of the specialised mother and baby homes that help mothers and infants stay together. Such homes exist and have proven successful in preventing forced mother and newborn separation. Yet instead, the system continues to feed itself. Tusla must justify its €1.2 billion budget. Private for-profit providers rely on a steady supply of children to keep their operations running. Thousands of professionals have a stake in keeping things just as they are — lawyers, barristers, social workers, GALs, experts, and administrators. The public often asks why a baby is taken. In this case the answer is painfully simple. The mother is homeless. She is poor. And she was once a child in care. Generations of Irish mothers and grandmothers have seen their babies taken. The names of the institutions may have changed, but the cruelty remains the same. The Alliance of Birth Mothers Campaigning for Justice calls on Tusla CEO Kate Duggan to intervene personally. She will have no difficulty in finding out which case this is. She has the power to direct that this mother and baby be placed together in a supportive setting, not separated in the name of protection. This is Ireland in November 2025. A mother who gave birth less than two days ago is now preparing to walk into court alone to fight for her baby’s right to remain with her. The buck stops with @KateDuggan8 *Casey is a pseudonym to protect the identity of the baby

@lil_doza Ooh he's still so salty about the Irish thing! He's had plenty of time to learn!

Far right agitator Philip Dwyer was trying hard to be victimised at the Anti-racism gathering in Tallaght last evening. Philip : Hey why are you here ? Anti-racist : Keep walking Philip : what ? Are you fat shaming me now? 😆🤣

Huge crowds out singing ÓRÓ ‘SÉ DO BHEATHA BHAILE at the GPO to stand up for the Republic against racism 🇮🇪 Ireland says No to the far-right mob and their Hitler salutes, Trump banners, Q-Anon conspiracies, dragging our tricolour along the ground #NoPasaran #FáilteRoimhTheifigh

Sweet sweet sight! Major anti-Fooligan protest gathering nicely at the GPO and it's only just begun. 😎 #NoPasarán #Ireland 💚🤍🧡

@Ontheboldstep Ah stop, I was just coming to post that I grew up with someone who always said this! She'd go ballistic if you called her out about it! 😂

My brother in law does joke and say he lives just off the malahide road also Coolock 🤣

Why is that boyzone documentary saying Mikey is from Raheny when he’s literally from my estate? He’s from Coolock. 🙄

@lil_doza @DubCityCouncil Is English not his first language?

Gavin Pepper, a councillor in @DubCityCouncil shared this image with intention of creating racial hatred. He lied that a foreign woman assaulted her and shared a video removed the audio because his so called victim was being racist calling black women and children “black b***stads” The racist woman has no visible signs of being assaulted apart from rushes that often come from not taking a shower for ages. Why is he getting away with all of this despite him holding public office? @ConorReddy95 kindly speak up against this continuous pattern from the Cllr involved.

@ThereseCahill1 According to comments on Facebook we're to leave the lad alone he "suffers with mental health".

i would hope whomever spawned this scum is suitably ashamed of themselves as a parent and their child as a human! disgraceful 🤬🤬🤬

@McNiffecent Have you watched severance? I think it's on Apple. The next season is due out soon, so you wouldn't have too long to wait for more. It's in the style of Black Mirror, did you watch that? It's a good one too.

Anything good on Netflix/ Apple/ Disney? I don’t have a dodgy box/ firestick. I loved Bad sisters, love anything that sharon Horgan is involved in. Loved Rivals, Disclaimer,The perfect couple, Ozark, Breaking bad, Nobody wants this, The Gentlemen, Breeders, Trying , Fargo etc…

@robggill Stop now

Not sure there is a a more overrated Irish media personality than Blindboy.

@doogarry I can't offer any tips really but it is very intuitive and before long you will find your way around it. I use a Mac, but mostly work in illustrator. What programmes will you be working with the most? LinkedIn learning used to have tutorials on everything.

Looking for MacBook Air tips - in my ignorance, I had no idea that the Mac UI was so different to Windows 🙊 Can manage things fine but know I'm not using it to full potential

@caulmick Every hospital with an a&e department needs a separate rapid injury clinic like the Mater has in Smithfield.

Patients leave Ireland’s A&Es in tens of thousands without being checked by doctors - Ken Foxe More than 53,000 people left hospital emergency departments in the first half of this year without being officially discharged. the number of “did not waits” at A&Es averaged nearly 300 per day between January and June. The figures rose in the second quarter.. #Waiting #HealthCrisis #HSE independent.ie/irish-news/pat…

@McNiffecent @NetflixUK @DisneyPlus @AppleTV @AmazonUK I cancelled paramount+ because they have switched to an ad model and you cannot find out the prices unless you set up an account first!

The streaming services have all gone a bit tight, the whole point was that we could watch almost anything there & now they’re too cute so you have to buy/rent movies like Elf / Love Actually etc. I notice they are also offering ad-supported movies!! Isn’t that why we all moved?

Joe Biden has pardoned a doctor who diluted the chemo of cancer patients, a judge who locked up kids for cash, a CEO who led a $19 million fraud scheme, a local official who stole $53 million from a small town, and his own son. He literally pardoned fraud, bribery and corruption.

@ChristineL52182 Boo hoo, would you like us to have a collective crying session?

@SageDespatches Never going to This shit hole! My Grandmother was from Ireland but I will not be going to see my family!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, the Israeli government has decided to close its embassy in Dublin because it views the Irish government as being hostile to Israel. The Irish government says it's not and tries to defend itself by saying they are pro international law, humanitarian, blah blah blah. It's not as if the Israelis are short of supporting evidence for their claim. Hmmm. That would be the Irish president sporting a keffiyeh and standing in front of posters saying "free Palestine". 👇

@lil_doza That was his mammy slapping him because he didn't go to mass!

Neo-Nazi admirer and fascist NP leader Justinn Barrett was caught helpless as he was being slapped by a man.

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