Stephen O'Connell

Govt appoints facilitators for spinal care, Shine probes via @RTENews rte.ie/news/2026/0228…

TRIGGER ALERT - Ireland’s SHAME #Carers Told By @HSELive They 100% Legally Responsible For ‘Accommodation & Care’ Of Adult #Disabled Citizens ‘Until They DIE’ -An Ableist Trope -That Family Are 100% Responsible For #Disabled Citizens With ZERO Support -REJECTED In Care Referendum

15 years, 3 months, and 5 days of HSE failure. That is how long Katie has been waiting. Katie was diagnosed with hip dysplasia on 24 September 2010. Today, more than 15 years later, she is still living with the consequences of a diagnosis that was known, documented, and repeatedly raised — yet never properly acted upon by the Health Service Executive. For 15 years, 3 months, and 5 days, Katie has lived with: Cerebral palsy A severely dysplastic hip A twisted femur A retroverted pelvis A hip joint shaped more like a saucer than a socket, offering no stability Every step she takes costs her. Every year of delay has allowed her condition to worsen. We fought. We pleaded. We escalated. We confronted @MichealMartinTD. We made @BernardGloster aware. Our ministers for health as far back as @AnneRabbitte did absolutely nothing. Her surgeons just gave us excuses until we got Micheál Martin involved And still — nothing changed. We were met with delays, deflection, and silence. What could have been treated years ago is now urgent and complex. The surgery Katie needs — a GANZ-type femoral and pelvic osteotomy — is not available to her here. The only surgeon who can safely perform this surgery for Katie is Dr. Dror Paley in Florida. This is why we are fundraising. Not for comfort. Not for extras. But for life-changing surgery that should never have taken over 15 years to secure. 💔 €300,000 is the cost of prolonged delay. 💔 It is the cost of missed intervention. 💔 It is the cost of a child growing up in pain while systems failed her. Katie should not still be waiting. But she is. 👉 Please help us give Katie a future without constant pain. 👉 Donate if you can. Share if you can’t. 👉 Every single euro brings her closer to surgery. 🔗 Donate here: gofundme.com/f/help-katie-g… 15 years, 3 months, and 5 days is long enough. This is not complexity. This is failure.

She doesn’t answer the question. It’s very simple there our no funds for certain children. My child is one of those children #HelpRoxan