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Pat O'Connor

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3 years

On RTE 1 still no discussion of the builders who made there mica bricks; the engineers who signed off on houses with them; the Construction lndustry Federation who represent builders and who are taking no action on these builders…

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4 years

The Leaving Cert is cancelled and there is still no child care even for front line workers and no school for another 2.5 months. The economy is opening (women caught trying to bilocate/triple job) and we are opening pubs. Does this reflect ANY woman’s priorities?? #covidireland

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3 years

Confirmed on RTE 1 that Windows 7 was still being used by HSE. Accountability of managers who allowed this?? And those IT people paid Euro 200 million last year by HSE?? Ineptitude. Personal and financial cost to taxpayer?? @paulreiddublin @LeoVaradkar

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The Israeli ambassador on RTE 1 says that all of those killed in Raffah were Hamas - even the infants it appears … and that they are a democratic society… who is complying with international law… Not stopping international aid… does anyone believe this stuff??

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4 months

Tom Hand (whose daughter was released after Irish intervention) is ashamed of being Irish. He has nothing to say about the 20,00O parents whose children have been murdered by Israel; nor the tens of thousands of legless, armless Palestinian children. Implicitly proud of it??

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2 years

So it appears that the HSE is phasing out public health nurses developmental health by stealth with 640 posts vacant. Public health nurses are mostly women and their work is preventative- and not valued apparently by the hordes of male managers…Not good enough… @DonnellyStephen

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3 months

Anyone puzzled as to why Cathal Crotty who admitted the unprovoked dreadful attack in 2022 and boasted about it on social media was not dealt with by the Defence Forced in the intervening two years?? #Natasha @MichaelMartinTD

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4 months

I cannot get my head around the fact that no-one is responsible for mica- no one manufactured the blocks; no one signed off on the buildings they were used in; there were no regulations about what a brick should/should not contain- so no one is responsible.. Am I alone??

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1 year

Excellent prog on Noel Browne on RTE 1 now. Unbelievably this man wanted to provide free healthcare for women and children 73 years ago and was opposed by the medical profession and the instit Roman Catholic Church- and a craven political system. …

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3 years

Imagine if the child care ‘industry’ was treated the same as the horse racing ‘industry’... Isint it a coincidence that the priorities of the gov happen to coincide with many men’s priorities??

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4 years

How many of the 11 men who decided that clothes were not essential actually shop for their own clothes?? And how many of those who decided that GAA championships were essential watch GAA??. Masculinist priorities disguised as science?? Brings science into disrepute #COVID19

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1 year

No one seems interested in talking to the auditors - Deloitte- in connection with the Ryan Tubridy affair. Why not?? It was their responsibility to sign off on RTE accounts. Too big to fail?? @rtenews @LeoVaradkar #RyanTubridy @jenhoganjourno

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1 year

Shocked to hear that the Ironman continued in Youghal Co Cork after the death of two participants during the ( stormy) sea leg. Anyone else think that this was disrespectful to those who died??

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5 months

The hypocracy of banning Russia from the Eurovision but allowing Israel to participate …. Why is Zionist Israel given a free pass on the murder of 15,000 plus children?? Not good enough.., @rte @Eurovision #Gaza

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4 months

Very sorry to see Clare Daly lose her MEP seat. A brave fearless woman and a powerful and hard working advocate esp for Gaza. Wishing her the very best in finding a new outlet. Ireland needs women like her- although it does not always appreciate them. @ClareDalyMEP

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3 years

Has anyone in gov or Tony Houlihan recognised that most people testing positive with Covid using antigen tests are not telling the HSE?? So the numbers are seriously under-estimated. Is anyone looking at reinstating masks in this situation?? Min for health?? #covid @LeoVaradkar

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2 years

The government tell us that there is a shortage of workers. With crèche fees in Dublin at 1,000 euro pcm per child many women are under pressure to leave nursing, teaching, retail, business etc. Do the men in power see this?? Do they care?? @LeoVaradkar #childcare

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2 years

Has it struck anyone as strange that no politician or person in foreign affairs appears to have noticed that Sabina Higgins had her own area on the Presidents web site for the past EIGHT years??

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2 years

Watching the Big Build on RTE 1 yest ( renovating six conservation houses in nine days) made me wonder why only TV progs seem able to mobilise volunteers to such good effect in housing. Why couldn’t this be done for the 3,000 homeless children?? @LeoVaradkar #Housing

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2 years

All those men in power in the HSE, Ministry and their legal advisors could have covered up this scandal involving over 200 women if Vicky Phelan had signed the confidentiality clause. And that could still happen according to Scally to day. Shameful. @LeoVaradkar #vicky

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4 years

So a Supreme Court Judge can be appointed by key politicians in a process which ignores the most qualified and experienced but they can’t be asked about it because of the separation of powers. Hello?? Do they think we are entirely stupid??

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6 years

The message given by Simon Harris to builders is that they can charge anything and the tax payer will pay. Very different message to nurses and midwives... @SimonHarrisTD @campaignforleo

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3 years

What has been achieved in vaccine delivery is due to the GPs and in spite of rather than because of HSE. Can someone remind me why we need this bureaucratic dysfunctional organisation in addition to Dept of Health?? Apart from jobs for boys..Time to end it?? #covid @LeoVaradkar

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3 years

€3m grant funding is paid annually to male inter-county players, whereas the €700k awarded to female inter-county players is a team focused grant. On a per player basis, men received an average of €1,282 each, compared to €424 each woman. Equality GAA style??

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5 months

So why exactly should the Book of Kells be in TCD as opposed to the National museum?? @TCD

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2 years

Why isint NIAC recommending offering a second booster to anyone who wants it under 65- given that DeGascun says that immunity only lasts 4-6 months and that spare dosages are available and are likely to be wasted..

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4 years

Four of the universities have/will appoint Presidents in the next year or two( Maynooth: UCC; UL; DCU). The HEA are asking them to include evidence for delivering gender equality as a key criterion for these appointments. This could help change the culture. @SimonHarrisTD

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2 years

How can there be an ‘emergency’ around places for children at second level with special needs?? Children move from first to second level..Does the dept of education not have forward planning?? Incredible. Not good enough. @LeoVaradkar

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3 years

Most child care in most families is done by women… But eight men decide to restrict children and fail to put HEPA filters in schools. Sick children are likely to infect mothers and no boosters for 30s/40s til next year. Great eh?? #COVID19 @LeoVaradcar @CMOIreland

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2 years

How is it that additional pay or benefits are immediately seen as a solution to recruitment shortages in male dominated areas ( such as IT; sec gen in dept of health etc) but seem to NEVER be considered in nursing, home care and other female dominated areas.. @LeoVaradkar

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1 year

Is Kevin Backhurst going to get rid of Deloitte’s as auditors? Going to do a real clean out of management team ( and reduce the salaries of those out of management). Sort out the audit and risk cttee and have a serious look at all the finance people? Or just Ryan Tubridy? @RTE

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4 years

I cannot understand how the minister thought it was acceptable not to send the survivors a hard copy of the mother and baby homes report. How many homes have a printer that can do 2,800 pages?? What planet is the minister- and gov on?? @rodericogorman #motherandbabyhomesreport

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2 years

Do any of you remember the Marriage Bar?? ie a ban on married women continuing in paid work in the civil service, second level teaching etc. It was ‘natural’ we were told. I was not convinced…I was delighted to be asked to write this piece.

Ireland EU 50 - Membership and Gender Equality - Lots Done but More to Do

When I look back, I sometimes wonder how things might have been if we had not joined the European Economic Community in 1973. In Ireland at that time, it was taken for granted that men should be paid...

theeuropeannetwork.eu

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8 months

Those voting NO to amendment of Article 41.1.1 see single parents as not a ‘proper’ family. Don’t those children need the same constitutional protection as other children?? If you think that they do you need to vote YES

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4 years

Prof Sam McKonkey, specialist in infectious diseases says that there is no reason why 70 plus year olds should not go for walk on their own provided they do not meet other people. @CMOIreland @FergalBowers @SimonHarrisTD @paulreiddublin @LeoVaradkar

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11 months

A tech company called WIX in Dublin encouraged its employees to ‘create content supporting ‘Israel’s narrative’ and to ‘show Westernity’ in them as ‘unlike the Gazans we look and live like Europeans and Americans’. ( Irish Times p1). Incitement to hatred?? @LeoVaradkar #gaza

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1 year

This visionary committed man, Noel Browne saw that he was not going to be allowed to be in politics or in medicine because of the position he took on free health care for women and children. How many women and children died because of this?? #health

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3 years

So with new cases expected to rise to 3,000 a day and hospitalisations up to 500 a day in the next two weeks, does it seem premature to anyone else to decide to phase out NEPHET at this point in time?? Memorable sept anyone?? #COVID

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3 years

Might we actually see an Ireland where child care has a greater priority than greyhounds and football?? @citzensassembl

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7 months

I see that Michael Mc Dowell has his 4th opinion piece in the Irish Times in as many weeks. Very strange….So much for the absence of bias in the paper of record… No one else in the country able to write an opinion piece?? @IrishTimes

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4 years

Intriguing how much effort is being made to think how pubs and golf clubs might open - but no mention of creches or childminding.. Priorities??

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2 years

So the Taoiseach wants the Sec General of the Dept of Health- the man who got TCD to accept the CMO for free- to investigate the situation. The same man who didn’t even tell his boss that he had set this up?? Is this for real?? @MichaelMartinTD @SarahAMcInerney

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3 years

The sisters of charity are willing to transfer ownership of the contested site to Vincent’s holdings - with no religious implications they say. If so, I do not understand why they are not willing to transfer the site to the state? A fitting gesture to irish women and children…

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2 years

Stunning apology by Leo V as Taoiseach in the Dail - but still no legislation obliging medics to tell women the truth about their diagnosis and the medical mistakes made… Scally reminds us of this to day. Blather is all they are willing to give women.. shameful. @LeoVaradkar

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2 years

No one seems to be asking how come Damien English let the house Castlemartin go to wrack and ruin given the housing crisis. So much for tackling the problem of derelict houses… @LeoVaradkar

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6 years

After anonymizing and gender balanced boards women’s success rate in Irish Research Council Awards rose 13 per cent in 3 years. And some say these things don’t matter?! @IrishResearch @CHANGE_H2020 @MichelineShSk @gendertarget

Gabriella "Biella" Coleman

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Two small changes: anonymizing gender and gender balanced assessments, yields rather substantial results: "After the applications were anonymised, the number of women receiving awards rose to 44% in 2014 and to 57% in 2017."

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2 years

No question asked on RTE 1 as to why no regulations were introduced as regards building blocks and why no charges are being laid against the manufacturers of these not-fit-for purpose blocks and the engineers who signed off on these buildings. Not good enough @RTE1 @LeoVaradkar

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2 years

60 deaths in the past week according to Covid app- up from 41 last week. What is going on?? Is the Min for health still alive?? Hard to say..No sound out of him.. any explanation anyone?? @donnellystephen @paulreiddublin #covid19

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4 years

And as for the religious organisations... well. Two small but revealing acts: pursuing these women for maintenance for their children when they had already been adopted. And trying to go into liquidation to avoid facing up the consequences. Shameful. Profoundly depressing.

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2 years

Yet another politician on RTE 1 saying they can’t get special needs assistants, speech and Lang therapists etc - but no suggestion that salaries could be a problem. That is only for bankers and CEOs.. no mention either of organisational culture… a problem in HSE??

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3 years

Anyone noticed that RTE 1 is no longer reporting vaccine or booster numbers?? Numbers of deaths have of course disappeared for quite some time… edited reality?? #COVID19

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4 years

The gov needs to see that people are loosing hope. The combination of no plan; inadequate action on travel and track and trace; slow delivery of vaccines; infighting and weak leadership has created a v dangerous situation. They will pay for this at the polls.. #COVID19ireland

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2 years

The Min for Health says re Dr Tony Houlihan’s professorship in TCD paid for by Dept: ‘it is all public money’. ‘Tony did a great job’. Are professorships for the boys to be given out like sweeties?? When was the last time a woman got such treatment??

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3 years

What is the CEO of HSE doing implying that a move to vacc under 70s is imminent?? In lots of areas in Dublin people aged 70-75 have not even heard when they are likely to get an appointment for first vaccine. @paulreiddublin #COVIDvaccine

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3 years

It is unbelievable that the week that schools are re-opening public transport capacity is going to 100%..Impossible to believe that NEPHET recommended this… #covid

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3 years

35 million rescue package to the FAI after the John Delaney shenanigans..,How many hrs of home helps would that provide?? Our male dominated states priorities… not good enough…

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4 years

Germany and Portugal are imposing quarantine on people coming from Ireland. Why?? They’d have a care for their citizens lives. Here our politicians seem to value relationships with their pol colleagues over our lives. Not good enough. #COVID @LeoVaradkar @simoncoveney

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4 years

The Tanaiste highlights the impact of the UK Covid variant and its greater infectability. Hello?? Whose fault is it that we have this variant?? Who has insisted that no restrictions be put on travel?? #COVID @LeoVaradkar

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1 year

Why is Joe Duffy closing down any reference to the auditors in theRyan Tubridy affair?? Grant Thornton we’re asked to investigate it but according to the newspapers Deloitte were the annual auditors… Why pay auditors at all then?? @RTE1 @joeliveline

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3 years

Could we please get some updates on ALL those in hospital? ( not just ICU) What proportion are unvaccinated? With one dose? With two doses? This is vital information for those who are anxious as well as those dithering about vaccs. Thank you. @paulreiddublin #COVID19

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2 years

So the Bank of Ireland chairman wants the cap on bankers pay to be lifted. I presume because we have learned that paying bankers huge salaries produces positive effects?? (Irony..,)Just like paying Sec Gen of health and CEO of HSE solved health problems?? Right.. @LeoVaradkar

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3 years

How does cutting the time for restricting movements by symptom free close contacts of covid cases sit with the fact that symptoms in omicron only seem to occur 3-6 days after infection?? @FergalBowers #COVID19 @laoneill111 @paulreiddublin @LeoVaradkar

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2 years

So staffing levels in CAMHS in Dublin meant that it has had to be closed (Mary Butler min). The gov approach is to increase salaries.. sec Gen of Dept of health; CEO of HSE; IT experts… mostly men. Most nurses are women- salary increases?? No way .. @MaryButlerTD

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5 years

I have a piece in the Irish Times to day on women and professorships - including the senior leadership initiative. Tks to all those who have been retweeting and liking

Our university promotions system is designed by men for men

Opinion: We need gender-competent leaders to ensure more women move upwards

www.irishtimes.com

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3 years

Am I the only one who thinks that it is not clever to open up when an unknown % of front line health workers do not have a second Astra z vacc; when the Indian variant is dominant in UK and those with 1 Astra Z only have 30% protection?? @LeoVaradkar @MichaelMartinTD #COVID19

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4 years

Racing is going ahead at Fairyhouse to day... the ‘elderly’ are being told not to leave their houses; schools openings are deferred - but elite men must have their fun so horse racing is on. All in this together?? @LeoVaradkar @SimonHarrisTD @MichaelMartinTD @DonnellyStephen

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4 months

Daniel Levy in Irish Times Thurs: ‘Europe …has collectively abandoned any shame. Germany has led the way in abandoning norms, values, international law and even the fig leaf of decency in its complicity with Israel’s actions’. The EU led by you. Shameful. @vonderleyen

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9 months

Genocide is ‘ the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group’. Do the Irish academics who wrote to the Irish Times claiming that it was not genocide still see it that way??

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3 years

Brian Kerr and Roy Keane - now there are men who apparently had the measure of John Delaney.. honest, straight talking men who could not be bought.. how many boards are looking for them to be members?? I wonder why not…

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2 years

The Taoiseach says that ‘the state has not a leg to stand on’ as regards the disability payments debacle. So why is the whistleblower suspended from work since last Feb? And who decided that-Robert Watt?? @LeoVaradkar

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@ProfPatOConnor

5 years

Women’s ‘chance’ of a professoriate in Irish universities is now 1:15 and men’s 1:5. The under representation of women in these positions has implications both practically and symbolically. Hence the importance of this initiative. We need to change the system but this is a start

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2 years

So the best paid civil servant solves an employees’ HR issue by having the tax payer pay E 180,000 pa? The content of the job is unclear but has been designed by the disaffected employee and has not been advertised. Minister knows nothing. Right?? @LeoVaradkar @DonnellyStephen

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@ProfPatOConnor

9 months

Delighted to see that my memoir- A 'proper' woman?- is out (with 30% discount from Peter Lang- see below). It is my story- but I dare to think that the subtle processes of devaluation and denigration will find an echo in many women's experiences....

Peter Lang Publishers

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Grab your 30% discount on this fantastic new title from @ProfPatOConnor . The book will inspire and entertain all those who have struggled in any male-dominated organisation and wondered if they were the problem. #devaluation #discrimination #academia

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2 years

Why did the DAA allow 1000 people go- and built in the requirement that they could not be rehired for 2 yrs. Who signed off on this??

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2 years

Not feasible for government to impose penalties on those who constructed the faulty apartments?? it was possible in insurance and banking…What is the relationship between builders and politicians?? Not good enough. @LeoVaradkar @MichaelMartinTD

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5 years

30.5 per cent of Fine Gael, 30.4 per cent of Fianna Fáil 30.4 per cent of Labour candidates are women. Grudging performance by main parties where state funding will be halved unless 30 per cent of candidates are women. 63.6 per cent of Social Democratic candidates are women...

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3 years

Why are the Gardai suggesting that the key to baby Johns death in Caherciveen in 1984 is likely to lie in his mother’s actions- and not considering that it could be in his father’s actions??

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4 years

Consent classes may be useful for the approx 30 per cent of third level students who are raped during their time at college. But for staff like Dr A Ni S, gender competent leadership willing to challenge highly productive ‘valued’ senior staff is essential @SimonHarrisTD

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5 years

Women’s ‘chance’ of a professorship in Irish universities varies between institutions- from 1:9 to 1:32 ( average1:15). If bearing children/caring/lack of ambition etc were the explanation one would not expect this. Men’s ‘chance’ at 1:5 varies little between universities

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4 years

It is very rare that a presenter would gain pretty unanimous plaudits - but this has happened with Sarah MCInenerney. Yet RTE has bypassed her... why alienate your audience?? Out of touch?? Afraid of speaking truth to power?? @RTERadio1

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Did @TodayRadioRTE make the wrong decision in not giving Sarah McInerney the presenting job at @TodayRadioRTE ?

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Compare the attention given to the cancelling of children’s summer camps and that given to indoor dining. What does this tell you?? Children and mothers have v little importance to the male dominated government? Why do we put up with this?? #COVID19

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Does RTE 1 know that sociologists exist?? Watching the Way We Were on RTE 1 and there are historians as well as entertainers, journalists, broadcasters, writers and even the odd economist … but NO sociologist… Maybe someone should tell them that sociologists exist?? @RTE1

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1 year

Well now we know- the FAI got rid of Vera Pauw because it wanted ‘ a different and fresh approach’. Even success on a world stage is not enough- well not if you are s woman… Shameful @FAI

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@ProfPatOConnor

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Thanks to Irish Independent for publishing this…

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Bishop Casey’s Hidden Secrets on RTE 1 makes clear that neither the Irish Bishops nor the DPP James Hamilton wanted to know about the allegations of child sexual abuse by Eamon Casey ( now five across dioceses). Even after the Vatican suspended him this was not enforced locally…

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Despite the cravenness of a Taoiseach who does not know the definition of genocide we can at least be proud of Binne Ni Ghraligh… well worth listening to her detailed and moving presentation..

RTÉ News

@rtenews

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An Irish lawyer has told the top UN court that the conflict in Gaza is 'the first genocide in history' being broadcast in 'real time'. Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh KC spoke during South Africa's case against Israel at the International Court of Justice | More:

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Niall Gleason of Irish Water thinks 45 per cent leakages is doing well. Lack of ambition?? Easier to chastise parents for filling paddling pools when no child care is available than to actually do the job they are being paid to do...

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3 years

NEPHET recommended that children cut down on their activities and the CMO is urging us all to cut contacts by half to reduce the likelihood of ‘bumping into the virus’. But he has no problem with the 51,000 going to the match… virus not showing up there?? #COVID19 @CMOIreland

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4 years

It is very surprising that the chair of the commission or members such as Prof Mary Daly have not been come out and explained why they rejected the oral evidence and exonerated the state and church and their roles in forging that society etc. Why not?? #motherandbabyhomesreport

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Was any woman elected for Independent Ireland?? Or are they so independent that they don’t need women to stand?? Indeed have they even noticed the absence?? Hmm.. #election

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@ProfPatOConnor

8 months

We have all seen undisciplined and inappropriate behaviour by Israeli soldiers on X, but no -one has suggested that support be withdrawn from Israel on that basis. But the ALLEGED behaviour of .09 per cent of UNRA staff… The 20,000 babies born in the past 100 days must suffer

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Pat O'Connor

@ProfPatOConnor

3 months

The idea of the ex-President of UL going out alone to buy properties in Rhebogue is obviously farcical. Who else was involved?? How was it that no-one was willing to challenge a decision they apparently disagreed with?? Will the HEA investigation reveal this?? @HEA @podonovan

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Pat O'Connor

@ProfPatOConnor

1 year

Let me get this right. The Taoiseach and the Tanaiste think the market should sort out housing and child care - but hurling games?? Ah public provision needs to be the solution… Priorities??? @LeoVaradkar

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Pat O'Connor

@ProfPatOConnor

3 years

Pitting age groups against each other is classic divide and conquer. It is distracting attention from the the inadequacy of the HSE. When is the ramp up?? At 22 per cent with 1st dose in 16 weeks, when will 80 per cent be done @paulreiddublin #COVID19Vaccine

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Pat O'Connor

@ProfPatOConnor

9 months

‘If we say nothing about Israel’s brazen slaughter of Palestinians, even as it is livestreamed into the most private recesses of our personal lives, we are complicit in it.” Arundati Roy

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Pat O'Connor

@ProfPatOConnor

3 years

Kingston Mills adds his voice on RTE 1 to those of us asking Paul Reid CEO of HSE to give age and vaccination status of those being hospitalised. Why won’t he tell us?? So much for transparency.. @paulreiddublin @KingstonMills #Covid_19

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Pat O'Connor

@ProfPatOConnor

3 years

No one seems to be recognising that staffing in the HSE may be a knock on effect of children being sick at home because of Covid…no attempt to tackle this two years later.., @paulreiddublin @LeoVaradkar #COVID19

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Pat O'Connor

@ProfPatOConnor

4 years

It now appears that according to Denis Naughten (RTE 1) the attorney general Paul Gallagher was the one who had the names of the three other justices who applied for the Supreme Court Justice position - and the question then arises as to why he did not pass them on...

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Pat O'Connor

@ProfPatOConnor

11 months

How will the Israeli government decide that Hamas have been eliminated?? When there is no child alive in Gaza?? It is very hard to escape the conclusion that the ‘final solution’ is genocide.. Dreadful. #Gaza

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Pat O'Connor

@ProfPatOConnor

3 months

Another incredibly brave woman- Paula Doyle- ( RTE1) who was raped, challenging the courts willingness to allow victims counselling notes to be accessed by the alleged rapist and their solicitors. How the courts reflect and perpetuate misogyny.... @HMcEntee

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Pat O'Connor

@ProfPatOConnor

1 year

Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, said he had "ordered a full siege on the Gaza Strip. No power, no food, no gas, everything is closed." ‘We are fighting human animals and we act accordingly," he said. So are the 500 children who have died already in Gaza ‘human animals’?

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