Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick @C_Fitz_ Twitter profile

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

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Are you missing out on NHS Healthy Start? Many families in Northern Ireland are and we want to change that! #NHSHealthyStart @NHSHealthyStart

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

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3 years

It's been an eventful bank holiday weekend for us! We welcomed beautiful baby Bronwen Mary Connolly into the world on Friday, at a healthy 9lb 3oz ✨

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I really cringe when I hear people talk about how their profession is "paid less than shop assistants...refuge workers...fast food workers" It's a way to instantly devalue what that worker does. Don't do it.

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

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I can't help but feel indignant about the #flag debacle when we helped a pregnant woman this week who hadn't eaten in 4 days due to her benefits being stopped. Can we please focus on the absolute desperation that people are currently facing?

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We are celebrating my beautiful friend's big 40 in the shadow of the mountains of Mourne 🥰🌈😍 Ps. She's in search of love!

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I'm from a proud Derry family and based on the allegations alone, it is inconceivable that the current manager should have the privilege of representing the County in any capacity. Thinking about the woman who shared her harrowing testimony.

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3 years

Husband has to drive out to Jtown to run today, because last week, while running in Ballysillan playing fields wearing his GAA shorts, he was followed aggressively by a man & a dog & had to leave. Sometimes this place really smacks you in the face 😒

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

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1 year

If the DUP do not accept a deal. Poverty will increase. The NHS will collapse. Children's education will be compromised, particularly the most disadvantaged children. Childcare will be unsustainable. People's health and wellbeing does not feature in their "seven tests."

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1 year

My friend queued up in N. Belfast with her friend 1+ hr to try and get support from the council fuel fund. Their tickets were 181 & 182 and they missed out. I think it's hugely degrading that people are having to queue up & hope they make the cut. Utterly Dickensian. Shameful.

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

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2 years

Got a call last night from a stalwart in North Belfast to say a neighbour had been to her door to tell her about a mum down the street with 4 kids & that she has nothing for them to open on Christmas morning.

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

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3 years

Out of office is on; I'm turning from one form of labour & preparing for another. I hope to God I get a wee weeks hollys in between 🙏 for its been a mad year. I don't think I've ever pushed myself so hard, but it's been worth it. I secured a permanent post at Ulster...Joyous! ✨

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

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2 years

It's a hard day to be a poverty researcher. We work hard to present evidence, to cut through the rhetoric, to present our findings, to offer an evidence base for gov social policy and it's literally ignored. What is the point? #minibudget2022

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

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9 months

"The Lough is dying" Lough Neagh, Ballyronan Marina.

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

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2 years

The little bit of joy in this story is the kindness of neighbours & the solidarity in working class communities ❤️ Merry Christmas 🎄

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

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3 years

I am 35 weeks pregnant. I have had both vaccines. I was able to get second vaccine as a walk in appt at SSE after 8 wks. I had no side effects (except for a sore arm) & have had antenatal appts since & baby is well. I'd strongly recommend that pregnant women get their vaccine.

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3 years

Pregnant women are among those most seriously ill with #covid19 in our hospitals.

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1 year

@carlalockhart Hi Carla, this woman has no heat and five kids. We are still awaiting clarity on the £600 payment. This is the economic worst crisis in 40 years. People are desperate and destitute. What do you propose doing about it?

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

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2 years

The neighbour went on a quest for help & this AM my pals at St Patrick's SVP are heading down to see what they can do. This is just 1 household. I'm sure there are many who found it too difficult to seek help from charity. This is why families need the dignity of a decent income.

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Single man. Chronic health issues including depression. Over 60 but not retirement age. Living on UC. A flurry of bills leave him with nothing "not even a tin of beans" In darkness since Friday. Can't feed his companion dog. Has no family or "anyone to turn too"

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

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Was on the train today with a group of women on their way to Dub for a "girly" trip & they spent 20 minutes critiquing their cleaners and I haven't stopped thinking about it. I'm thinking so much about how we devalue certain types of work. How the person can be dehumanised.

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2 years

Single man. 6 yrs homeless. Finally gets a flat. 5 week wait means no UC payment until 27th of this month. £25 Discretionary Support grant in Nov for winter clothes disqualifies him from accessing another for 1 yr. He has nothing. No bed, no fridge, no cooker. #Poverty2022

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@C_Fitz_

1 year

We need to fight against this payment not coming until June. People are absolutely desperate. This is an absolute and a complete dereliction of your duty @chhcalling . I sat opposite you & told you the figure for fuel poverty in Northern Ireland - it's not fallacy it's fact.

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1 year

"Dickens day" Must be the most tone deaf appeal for a foodbank I've ever seen. I can't believe a politician would promote this. Particularly from a party who refuses to legislate to help people. My heart is well & truly broken. #CrushedbyCOL

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

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3 years

On a lighter note, I was very flattered that @BBCSpotlightNI promoted me to Professor!! (May have spat my tea out!) 🤣😆 Someday, maybe!

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

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2 years

@JamieBrysonCPNI Jamie, this is beyond inflammatory & dangerous. Colin Harvey is an academic and he is as entitled to freedom of thought as you are. How dare you attempt to put him in danger in this way. I'm disgusted.

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

@C_Fitz_

1 year

This was up in Antrim paediatric ED yday (a wee visit with F - he is A-OK). I asked a nurse about it & she said that things are so bad that they took this initiative. They see too many children coming in hungry & children unable to access treatment as they've no £ for transport.

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

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10 months

I met a woman walking with a thin 6 year old child in Belfast City Centre yesterday. She was showing people a little note and people weren't stopping. I stopped...

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

@C_Fitz_

2 years

@carlalockhart With respect, the same applies to you and your colleagues. Not one DUP rep came to the Long Gallery to hear people with lived experience of poverty outline their fears for winter. It was hugely disappointing #CrushedbyCOL . Those in poverty are socially excluded from NI.

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

@C_Fitz_

11 months

**THIS** is the story of the day folks. This covers the shortfall in both Education (£200m) and Communities (£111m). This is a failure of government.

Belfast Telegraph

@BelTel

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More than £460m of public money allocated to Stormont has been returned to the Treasury in recent years because it wasn’t spent

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

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3 years

£200 for every household. Again, I feel like this is a poorly researched policy. I'm all for universalism. But we literally have families losing out on thousands due to benefit cap & two child limit. Those of us who are in secure employment could do without this money. 😖

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

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3 years

First jaunt out in the fresh air. 10 days new is our Bronwen 💜 Feeling sooooo much better.

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@C_Fitz_

3 years

A local childcare setting has increased their prices - pushing £1,000 p/m for one child, full-time & workers are paid minimum wage. How is this sustainable? Is it any wonder women feel pushed out of the labour market?

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1 year

Folks there's a volunteer in North Belfast whose urgently tending to a man who is sitting in the dark & a man who has no food in the presses as @RishiSunak contemplates a 6 week holiday. No justice. No peace.

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

@C_Fitz_

1 year

The out of office is on until the new year. I am blootered, as are we all! I am going to sign off here too and snuggle me babes for a couple of weeks. Time to recoup some energy and brain power for the fight to continue in the new year. Everyone, take care in the meantime ✨❤️

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

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3 years

If we are going into a lockdown situation, people need financial support. If unable to work they need income. Money in their pockets...This should *not* be substituted by food parcels.

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

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2 years

Single mum. Living in inadequate social housing. Impacted by the two child limit. No gas & "-43p in her electric" She's "scared to think" of where she's "getting the pennies for the next meal" - it is really taking its toll on her health. (Screenshot shared w/ her permission)

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

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2 years

My last day on maternity leave with these two 💜 happiness.

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

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1 year

. @J_Donaldson_MP saying that the NHS pressures are UK wide. Statistics clearly show that the situation is much worse in NI than other parts of the UK - there is no equivalence. The waiting lists show an utterly broken system.

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

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6 years

Dear Jim Rodgers, as a young woman who is committed to #socialjustice and making #BelfastCity a more welcoming + diverse city, I am appalled to read your crass and unfair comment in the Newsletter. @NualaMcAllister has been a blessing for our city. Shame on you.

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1 month

Caught a bit of #panorama . Imagine the Gov giving councils a measly £500m - when there's £10bn holed up in a bogus levelling up fund. It's actually disgusting.

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

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5 years

I’ve a whole new deep appreciation for our welfare state after the eventful birth of our little boy Finian ❤️ I will do everything to protect it for future generations 💪🏼 #FiveGiants

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

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9 months

My sister is married 7 years! ❤️ This is the night before...Our last night in our two wee single beds. Pure Fr Dougal and Fr Ted style. We shared a room at home for 24 years! I balled my lamps out for hours and hours. Isn't it hard when an era ends?

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1 year

Thinking of all the kids going to bed freezing this week. I am a broken record, but the lack of political accountability, the lack of progress, the lack of legislation is having an untold impact on the next generations. Our wee ones.

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2 years

The DUP not coming to the Executive table will be the biggest driver of the #CostOfLivingCrisis - not the protocol @BBCTalkback .

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2 years

My auntie from Coalisland sent me this snapshot of what Primate Dixon p.s. are doing to support children in their school. It's inclusive & facilitates participation for all - brilliant! 🌟🌟

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

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2 years

How depressing is it that we are heading into a minimum of 6 months of "limboland" politics. The cost at the front of my mind is 25,000 more *destitute* households.

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

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10 months

I welcome today's judgement - it outlines the importance of the law, of the protections offered by the ECHR. But it also makes me think about our work on #destitution and how there are millions of people who are suffering Art. 3 & Art 8 breaches every single day.

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

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4 years

I am "going home" to be a lecturer @UlsterUniSchLaw - a dream come true. I will be focusing on gender, socio-economic rights & social security law. I am truly gutted to be leaving my role @LawCentreNI . Its an amazing job, with a brill team & kick-ass org. APPLY TO BE PART OF IT!

Law Centre NI

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We are hiring. Help change lives and change the law by putting your skills and experience to good use in a social justice setting. See our website for more info:

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

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3 months

Where else would you get it? I am scundered of the whole pantomime - meanwhile people's lives, education & well-being are being decimated. Fiasco.

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

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2 years

Do you remember the fund that you all so generously contributed to, for a low income mum who had a teeny tiny baby at 25 weeks? Well the wee toot is finally home! 💞💞 Just one of the hundreds of reasons we need to protect our NHS.

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

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1 year

I am really struggling with the media's depiction of the COL crisis, particularly where it speaks with charitable givers. The receivers are shown as "vulnerable," poverty-stricken, grateful. There's NO discussion as to why people don't have the dignity of enough money.

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

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3 years

My stomach is sick. This is the government passing responsibility to feed children to profiteering private industry. These families will have no choice but to turn to food banks...to charity...because they aren't getting what they are entitled to from the state! It's horrendous.

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3 days of food for 1 family... Just not good enough.

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2 years

Kerry on @StephenNolan : "I don't want to be pitied" - she can't afford fresh food & she hasn't replaced her oven. She also relies on SVP for support with fuel costs. She isn't vulnerable, she needs a minimum income.

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1 year

An offensive term that I'm seeing over and over and it's truly grating on me is: "Handouts" A word resultant of targeted Tory rhetoric to make those in poverty feel deep shame - even in a time of national economic crisis.

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@C_Fitz_

1 year

This was written on a local FB group. It conveys the stress, the anxiety, the mental torture that some mothers are mother's are facing. #CrushedbyCOL

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2 years

All I keep thinking of is the poverty in some of these areas. The hardship. The daily struggle to get children fed, watered & heated. There is few marches on that issue.

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2 years

The once Kingmakers must be absolutely scundered when they waken to images like this. How the mighty have well and truly fallen.

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2 years

@NILoyalist53 @AmandaFBelfast I don't care about religion. Poverty & deprivation know no religious lines. I've helped people on the Shankhill & the New Lodge. All I care about is people & we are being let down. There is plenty that could be done to mitigate hardship & that's fact. My name doesn't come into it

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@C_Fitz_

1 year

People are relying on this payment. This £400 will ensure that people have more financial bandwidth to afford Christmas. An absolute disgrace & no Ministers in office to fight for people #CrushedbyCOL

BBC News NI

@BBCNewsNI

1 year

A £400 payment to help with energy bills may not be paid to people in Northern Ireland until January, the Utility Regulator has said #costofliving

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2 months

On #internationalwomensday I want to recognise lone mothers. 93% of lone parents are women in Northern Ireland. A place that does not value their contribution to society or their caring role for children.

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@C_Fitz_

1 year

. @TrussellTrust NI figures out today - 10k *new* foodbank users across NI. Lyndsay Agnew the manager of one of the biggest foodbanks in NI reported a 100% increase in use of the Lisburn foodbank in October 2022 #CrushedbyCOL

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@C_Fitz_

10 months

I am lucky to have 4 years of a fixed term mortgage left. Our family could not cope with a £300-£400 increase on top of high childcare costs, and we both have decent salaries. It will drive low income families out of work. Do the gov realise the scale of this crisis?

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2 years

I keep thinking about the people (majority men) on six figure salaries, who will get £55k cash into their households. And the nurses who start their public service career on less than half that amount.

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2 years

I've no confidence in N.Ireland's institutions. I'm disgusted. I hope @duponline are content that they are the barrier to people having the dignity to meet their most basic needs this winter. A party that didn't come to #CrushedbyCOL to hear it from the horse's mouth #shameful

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2 years

My heart hurts when I think of mothers bringing babies "home" from hospital to hostels. Not being able to afford the hospital bag essentials. This is happening everyday. Little children are disadvantaged from the moment they are born.

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1 year

Standing together today at Stormont representing the views of women at the NI Affairs Ctte with @WSN_NI & @WSLobbyistNI and other brilliant Women in the sector. Women deserve better and urgent action, not just words, action.

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2 years

@BimpeArcher @AsdaServiceTeam This is truly nauseating. Disgusting. The stigma that people in poverty face and that is being perpetuated by too many quarters is disgusting.

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@C_Fitz_

5 years

As we draw closer to the big day for rights in Northern Ireland, I just want to give a personal + public pat on the back to this woman here @DaniRNI . I’d the pleasure of spending 3.5 years sharing a PhD office with Danielle. She has given everything to campaigning.

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4 years

I have just recorded my very own "Thought for the Day" for @bbcradioulster - a very surreal privilege. The first one of a series of 4 is due to air on 24th August (my birthday!). I have focused my series on #SocialJustice and have been inspired by colleagues and friends ♥️

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1 year

I stopped with a really young woman who was sitting on the street on Friday night. She has a flat, but has no gas, electricity, fridge or cooker. It was more miserable to sit there. Her "bru" not due to Monday. She is an alcoholic. A "friend" had taken her medication.

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4 years

Of Northern Ireland v the North on @BBCTalkback ...Bronagh from Markethill says "it's all pile of shite" Could not agree more.

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@C_Fitz_

2 years

The thought of @duponline leaving people in poverty high and dry by not going back into the Executive due to unresolved issues around the Protocol is absolutely heart-rendering. Please don't do this @bbctheview .

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6 months

You might want to pick up @BelTel today! The Monday interview features me talking to @ismiseliam about my fears for the social structures in Northern Ireland. They are collapsing before our very eyes #Poverty #destitution #healthcrisis

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2 years

I'm on Sunday Politics with @MarkCarruthers7 tomorrow morning, followed by Sunday with @JournoClaire @bbcradioulster . As we go another week with very limited support for those on the lowest incomes, I'll be emphasising how serious the situation is becoming #CrushedbyCOL

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4 years

Declan, who has become homeless has worked, he has paid taxes, he has paid national insurance - yet the social security system isn't there for him in his time of acute need #UniversalCredit #InsideTheWelfareState

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11 months

The oldest pupil on the books! 😂You are never too old to learn. To finish something you started! My last speech & drama exam was at age 16 & I'm pleased to report I passed Grade 8 with a score of 95. Next step diploma! A massive thanks to Aspire & my old VP at SMG Mrs O'Brien ❤️

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2 years

Absolutely deplore Liz Truss' rhetoric of government "handouts" - this is our money. It does not belong to the government and it certainly isn't hers to hand out. I despair at her becoming PM.

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1 year

@SJAMcBride The rest of the article is certainly more nuanced, but it doesn't detract from the explosive meaning of that first sentence, where you've explicitly linked SF success with Catholic mother's birthing children.

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4 months

Imagine leaving a cold house to travel in cold weather to a warm bank for a few hours before coming back to your cold house. Give people the dignity of keeping their homes warm. Thinking of those today who are trying to cope with Sub-Zero temps. They have been failed.

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A BBC Breakfast feature on warm banks & what a great idea they are. By design, broadcasters cheerfully uphold punitive state enforced inequality & scarcity that is destroying health, life expectancy, family life & human dignity whilst mass transferring wages to corporatons.

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There's a desperation to free up hospital beds. But an appeal to ask family to support "to help us" is a sad indictment on the state of the social care system, particularly for older people. It will be majority women in the family who will be charged w/ finding care solutions.

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4 years

I'm finding the back lash thrusted upon Seán Cavanagh terribly sad. His status as a Gael is being questioned because he used the term "UK" to refer to where he is situated - and that's just wrong.

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2 years

Just a reminder that in the midst of all this political drama, there's a mum with four kids, who have additional needs who are hungry, because all the household income has gone on the gas/electric meters. Nobody cares about them. #CostOfLivingCrisis #PoliticalCrisis

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2 years

An apology, that I appreciate.

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@NILoyalist53

2 years

@C_Fitz_ @AmandaFBelfast Ciria, I’ve reflected overnight on what I said on this thread and apologise for my comments. I was trying to challenge the views expressed but appreciate I should have not have brought your name/voting preference into it. Lesson learned and I hope you accept my apology as genuine

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2 months

Really appreciate my son's school's approach to #WorldBookDay - no need to wear a costume, acknowledging extra pressure for parents & instead he's to bring his favourite books. What it's alllllll about 👏

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4 years

Who needs a wee bit of reprieve from today? Here it is...Those first steps! I can't get over the cuteness. Have shared it far and wide 🥰 #FirstSteps

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3 months

I can't get my head around the unspeakable harms in Palestine. Trapping 1.4m people in one tiny area, depriving them of food, water and aid - and then bombing them as the world watches on & the western countries provide the arms to do it. It's depraved. 💔

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1 year

I've two toddlers with scarlet fever. There's a local outbreak! So look out for the symptoms: high temp, tonsillitis, a red face, "sand paper" rash all over the body. Thankfully it's treatable with an antibiotic. You should get it seen too by a Dr as it can lead to complications.

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2 years

@JamieBrysonCPNI I deleted it because I didn't want to perpetuate it. I'm disgusted you would seek to inflame sectarian tensions. I'm not afraid to say that, Jamie.

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1 year

Mark Carruthers exposes how weak and untenable the DUPs continued boycott is. People are literally dying due to a seriously compromised health service. DUP seek to remain in step with the UK - well on health we are light-years apart.

BBC The View

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1 year

Health or the protocol what's your priority? @MarkCarruthers7 asks @paulgivan

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10 months

I have no words.

BBC News NI

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10 months

Every street light in Northern Ireland could be switched off from January to March next year in a move @deptinfra says would save it £3m

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2 years

I'm heading onto the @bbctheview tonight to discuss the #CostofLivingCrisis . As we watch the slow mo car crash at Westminster. As we head towards a pointless election - people are hungry, people are cold, people are scared.

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@C_Fitz_

2 years

On holidays in the back arse of nowhere & it's grey and mizzly with a gale that would skin ye...but I'm pretty darn content ❤️ #IrishHoliday

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

@C_Fitz_

3 years

This made me cry. The desperation. "You've made my life hard" 💔

PoliticsJOE

@PoliticsJOE_UK

3 years

"You're an Eton millionaire who doesn't care about disabled people." Jacob Rees-Mogg is confronted by Dominic Hutchins who says that he had to prove he had cerebral palsy to claim benefits.

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

@C_Fitz_

2 years

Shocked to hear a member of the public on #Newsnight suggest that she feels the social security system puts people off going to uni because they can make more £ on benefits... what?!

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

@C_Fitz_

10 months

She said she has no other choice but to rely on the kindness of others. She has no nappies, she looked ill & wasn't producing breastmilk. I cannot get that child's face out of my head. A stark e.g. of the harsh and hostile environment for people who want to contribute.

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

@C_Fitz_

2 years

Being a country girl through and through, I never had any mates knocking on my door. This wee gang call for Finian every day. It's just class, isn't it? 😅

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

@C_Fitz_

2 years

Sectarianism.

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@NILoyalist53

2 years

@AmandaFBelfast Fitzpatrick/devlin don’t sound like dup names. If they said that already then how getting the DUP back solve anything for this winter. It is an international energy crisis and there is no magic money tree!

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

@C_Fitz_

9 months

A generous family friend is letting us stay at their cottage on Arranmore Island this weekend - so my crew & my sister's crew (5 kids, 5 & under) are heading on an adventure! 🎉 Does anyone else remember piling into a wee Irish house with their 57395738 cousins? Best craic ever!

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

@C_Fitz_

1 year

Another tone deaf contribution to the normalisation of foodbanks c/o a party who won't get back around the table & find away to distribute the circa £272m of COL funding held up in the Executive Coffers. Please help our people. You are leaving them out in the cold. #CrushedbyCOL

Pam Cameron MLA

@PamCameronDUP

1 year

Well done to my friend and colleague, Paul Girvan MP on braving the cold to raise funds for our local Food Bank today 👏🎄

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

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10 months

Home to sleepy hugs! The end of #SPAconf2023 means two weeks of leave for me! I'm going to delete the Twitter app and recharge the fight mode. Big July holiday love to all ♥️🌈

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

@C_Fitz_

3 years

Unpopular opinion...these pumpkin patches are capitalism at its worst. Me & my sister took the weans (peer pressure) & by the time I got home I was ready for the hills. Bring back low key black bin bag parties with a few wee sparklers & bobbing for apples. We'd the best childhood

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

@C_Fitz_

1 year

This paragraph from @NewtonEmerson is spot on this morning. The "provincial bourgeoisie" is burying its head in the sand & bedding down to look after number 1, while society falls apart.

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Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick

@C_Fitz_

1 year

Just thinking aloud - if it's true the NIO spent £7m to facilitate an important visit last week & this scheme which supports hundreds of young people has been cut for the sake of £9m - all involved have to take a hard long look at it. Absolutely sickening.

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