Women & girls in danger. Just going for a walk. At 7.30am in broad daylight or 9pm on the way back home. Old or young. Wearing skirts or trousers. With loads of slap on or none. Scared to walk. Scared to run. If men were scared like this would something be done?
#SarahEverard
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My mum is voting to
#repealthe8th
today. She is 78 & had an illegal abortion in London as a young woman. She survived. She went on to have all of us 8 children. She's done so much in this campaign. I can't even tell you how grateful I am. She made me. Love you
@anningle
❤️
I don’t have a dad because he died by suicide when I was 8 and he was 41. I know some find it hard but it doesn’t make me sad to see others celebrating dads. Reminds me of a couple of sweet memories I have of him. Makes me think, remember, wonder. Spread dad love ❤️
#FathersDay
My friend Georgia (10) began a campaign in her school -“Equal Rights, No More Tights” - to allow girls wear trousers. She got a petition & advocated for the change through her school council. Today she & twin sister Maisy went back to school in trousers. Very proud
#equality
Feel the anger & pain of this man. Raped & beaten as a boy, nightmares & suicide attempts all his life. When he tried to get justice the men from Rome called him a liar. Remember him & all the other victims when
@pontifex
arrives. They are all that matters.
#Stand4Truth
Spent much of my life being big, fat, whatever. Over the years so many strange men - always men - felt the need to tell me they disapproved of my body. Happened again yesterday in a Spar. My body is my business & needs no-body's approval. Just reminding myself & you if it helps.
Tara Flynn can never be thanked enough for what she did. The abuse she took for standing up and speaking out should never be forgotten. She is the kindest woman in the land. My hero. I love you
@TaraFlynn
❤️
#Repealthe8h
#NotAFunnyWord
Adele is the same person she was. Not a better person. Not a more acceptable person. The same. The growth is on the inside. She is a strong, brilliant, talented woman.
Landslide for
#repealthe8th
because Irish people are kind and won’t be told what to do anymore. And the people who try to control us don’t have a mandate anymore. And women & girls in Ireland are free. We are free. Thank you Ireland ❤️
Sad to see comments by Ryan Tubridy & others on
#GretaThunberg
: “If she was a movie I’d press pause” Cork woman Joanne O’Riordain
@NolimbsNolimits
was 16 when she addressed the UN. Teen girls with & without disabilities are powerful. Let’s never press pause on their power ❤️
Find a mother who writes a letter to your head mistress like this when you are an angsty, pain-in-the-neck 13-year-old. Thank you for always having my back
@anningle
even when I am causing trouble with my attention-seeking ways
#stillatit
❤️
So proud of my Uncle Brendan who died last May. A street near his boxing gym has been named after him. He devoted his life to giving young disadvantaged kids opportunities & support because he knew they were more than the circumstances of their birth. Thank you
@SheffCouncil
❤️
As a person who had an abortion I feel sick watching
@rte
tonight. We’ll look back at this referendum & be deeply ashamed. It’s not right. What I needed to do when I had a crisis was nobody’s business but my own. So much healing needs to happen when this is all over.
#CBLive
Can't get over this barrister asking jury to reflect on a teen's underwear & if her lace thong suggested she was "open" to meeting someone. Wondering what kind of underwear suggests a man is "open" to meeting someone? Any legal experts know? Appalling.
I ❤️good pop.
@taylorswift13
serves sublime, original pop & her
#reputation
tour is a joy-filled triumph. Stunning New Years Day & This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things highlights of a brill show. Can’t wait to see
@CrokePark
and TS sparkle again tomorrow 🙏❤️
#TaylorSwift
@roisiningle
I don’t understand why you’d be shook Roisin? I though abortion was normal? Is it upsetting to have to actually face what you claim to be proud of?
Nearly finished replying to over 100 emails in response to this column today. Every single one expressed solidarity with the woman in
#Dingle
. Some were hard to read. Many were from men. From Michael & John. From James & Packie. It would give you hope ❤️
You don’t know Ireland. We voted for legislation that allows same sex couples to marry, we voted for women & girls to have access to abortion. You are homophobic & you want to control women. Your “Christianity” is callous and cruel. You don’t know us at all ☘️
#MikePence
America & Ireland are prospering because our nations are bound together by the connections of family & history but also a deep commitment to individual liberty & freedom. I’m proud to be part of an administration that respects the dignity & worth of every person, born & unborn.
Thank you
@LeoVaradkar
for a realistic & oddly comforting address especially remarks about our younger & older people. “This is the calm before the storm before the surge ... we will get through this, we are with you”. Crying in front of the telly.
#coronavirus
#CoronaIreland
Let all religions be a private, intimate practice not something that spills into education or government or public life. It has no place there. Keep it in the hearts of people who believe & let people live lives free from imposed spirituality. It’s an intensely personal thing 🙏
You are boasting about placing baby-sized coffins outside a maternity hospital. Where women are going in to have babies. Miscarriages. Abortions. You do not know what the word Christian means. Or the word peaceful.
The weekly peaceful vigil at Holles Street Maternity Hospital continued yesterday
On this occassion
3 small baby sized coffins were placed on the ground to represent the thousands of babies denied the right to life in Ireland since January 1st
#prolife
#rallyforlife
I have very strong and mixed feelings about vasectomies. Deeply held beliefs that I learnt at school. I worry it’s being used as contraception. My very strong views about this should be considered before men are allowed to go and have vasectomies willy-nilly, as it were.
Sophia started loads of conversations tonight. Her hair is cool. She is cool. The
#LateLateToyShow
is cool for letting her tell her story and sharing her anti-Bullying message. You’d love this girl
@MonicaLewinsky
#TeamSophia
I have reservations. I have issues. I have questions. Having said all that I “Just. Watched. This.” with my daughters & the three of us are imagining
@MaryLouMcDonald
as Taoiseach & feeling excited. Whatever happens this is a magnificent, groundbreaking Dàil speech 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Going out. OUT OUT! To a place with outside heating & Dublin Bay Prawns & Burrata. I am not wearing runners. Repeat: NOT WEARING RUNNERS. Thanks for being so jolly on here & adding so much to a great day. Happy 49th Birthday To Me! ♥️
@SarahJayBee
@EmerTheScreamer
@anningle
This is one of the best pieces on class, journalism, feminism & more that I’ve ever seen. One of the finest, most thought-provoking articles I’ve ever read full stop. Some of it resonates deeply, parts are challenging. Good luck
@suzanne_moore
with whatever comes next
#MustRead
Great to have a statue of a brilliant woman, there are far too few, but some are wondering why she is so tiny, so shiny and so naked.
#MaryWollstonecraft
“Never will so many be asked to do so much for so few” I know it’s only words but they touched on everything this country, this world is going through. I am glad
@LeoVaradkar
is leading us now. That’s all.
#coronavirus
#CoronaIreland
#wewillprevail
Ashling Murphy went for a jog at 4pm in Ireland & is not alive anymore. Maybe if the time/energy men on podiums put into the covid pandemic was put into ending the global pandemic of male violence against women it would be different. via
@IrishTimes
If I hear one more person pronouncing it Krispy Kreme (rhyming Kreme with phlegm) I will crack up. (I’ve had a long day.)It’s pronounced Krispy Poxy Jaysusing CREAM people. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk. 👍🏻
The arrogance of some parents, that they have deeper feelings, more empathy & better understanding of certain painful situations 'cause they have kids. The idea that child-free people don't have the same capacity for empathy. It's wrong & dim & I say that "as a mother of two".
Last night, these two - Joya & Priya who will be 11 in 10 Locked Down days - surprised me with a new cover. They did it all themselves. Sad to be redundant but proud of them too. “Somewhere, when there’s no Covid ... ” They hope you enjoy ❤️
I am really cheered by the people who, like me, are still in bed. I might have to get up shortly because essential travel to the bathroom but will then probably go back to bed. Thank you.
BREAKING: The kind, sound taxi-driver dropped my rucksack to Pearse St
@GardaTraffic
& the kind, sound Garda Bravo 325 gave me the news. Anyway, thank you Mr Taxi Man. And thanks to all of you. It contained my work laptop & my
@MichelleObama
book. PRECIOUS CARGO!
#thankyou
Well you smashed that
@PatricKielty
Thank you to everyone who made it happen and gave us some sparkle back after yesterday. Buddy brilliant.
#LateLateToyShow
Bono-haters are a pox. I’m a Dubliner who loves U2. There are loads of us. Can’t wait for a
@u2
museum to happen when this poxy pandemic is over ....
#StPatricksDay
Just drove past Charlotte at the bus stop in Phibsborough living her best life on her way to art college. Brightened up a grey morning. Thank you Charlotte 💖💕💞🌸💐💗💞💕💖🌸💗💐💖💕
So many are excited & delighted about the
#popeinireland
Hope it’s ok to be unhappy too. The whole circus makes me ill especially the State’s involvement. The State conspired with the Church in so much misogyny, homophobia & abuse. Getting out of dodge for a bit
#Stand4Truth
I was cycling on the canal and
@KittyHollandIT
called and she said “well done” & that’s two words for every single one of us who cared enough to go out there and make this country a better place. My heart is bursting. We did it. We repealed the 8th!
#repealthe8th
#repealed
A reminder that the Catholic Church is homophobic & if you subscribe to the Catholic Church - through their baptisms, communions, education, weddings, funerals - the byproduct is supporting & validating their homophobia. We are not a homophobic nation. We voted for
#yesequality
I told my story so the shame around abortion might start to lift. So much support from
@fotoole
and
@MarianKeyes
before publication. They told me it was important. I did not dare to dream we’d
#RepealedThe8th
3 and a half years later. But here we are ❤️
I am really - genuinely - confused. Can anybody in
@sinnfeinireland
explain why, when they are a pro-choice party, they abstained from voting in a bill last night that is an attempt to restrict abortion access? It would be good to know the strategy here.
I have no update about the lost bunny, makes me sadder by the day. Marie, the little owner, was given it by her Daddy who since died. One man on our road has a carrot in the window to entice bunny back. If anybody is on Clontarf prom or Alfie Byrne Road please keep an eye out ♥️
Lovely concession speech by
@LeoVaradkar
who pays tribute to incoming
#DublinBaySouth
TD
@ivanabacik
describing her as “a thoroughly nice & wonderful person” who campaigned on issues of equality & environment “long before it was fashionable”. Fair play.
Dear Steve Coogan, So many get it so wrong, but you got it so right. A nation salutes you. Please move here and make programmes for
@rte
with
@AkaPaulHoward
We need you, love, me and
@MarianKeyes
❤️👍🏻
Hope certain commentators will stop talking about “the liberal agenda” as an outlier position. We voted en masse for marriage equality & for women’s right to bodily autonomy. Ireland is not a conservative country. It’s a liberal & progressive country. Get used to it 👍🏻
Other cities have “ecological transformation” Dublin, Ireland has people going to the High Court about cycle paths in Sandymount and complaining about loss of a few car parking spaces for a cycle path in pretend village Ballsbridge. Anyone involved in either should be mortified.
Paris is investing £225m to transform the iconic but car-choked Champs-Élysées Avenue into an “extraordinary garden.” Across the city 140K on-street parking spaces will be removed for people-space. Bold city-building leadership from
@Anne_Hidalgo
& team.
It’s never (ever) too late to do something you love. My Mum (79)
@anningle
just took delivery of the book she has ghostwritten on legendary Irish racing driver Rosemary Smith. Well done Mum. Proud of you ❤️
#Driven
@HarperCollins
Prince Harry announced that his wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, had given birth to a baby boy, saying "’we're both absolutely thrilled".
Read more about the new
#RoyalBaby
here:
I loved Gay Byrne. I told him that every time I saw him. He made this country a better place. Nobody else could have got us talking the way he did. He changed us forever, for the better. I am very sad. I’ll always be grateful ❤️
#GayByrne
I have never watched
#Gogglebox
but this would make me want to start. These British people understand the wider symbolism of
#repealedthe8th
more than some people commenting in Ireland. I cried. Thank you for getting it
#Gogglebox
people x
Imagine if it was a normal occurrence for politicians to apologise when they got something wrong and ask citizens for forgiveness. Instead, this seems radical.
#AngelaMerkel
Lovely stuff still happening Part 2: Rebecca & Brian got married yesterday. I asked could I take their photo. To remind us all that
#LovelyStuff
is still going on ❤️
Just flicked through a ten page newspaper sports supplement. There is no picture of a woman or a girl doing sport. None of the people writing about the sports are women. It’s a SuppleMENt.
I had the privilege of talking to Patrisha McLean about what she suffered in her 29 year marriage to singer Don McLean. She is free from him now & helps others. Thinking of all victims of violence & coercive control ♥️
@RoanYellowthorn
#FindingOurVoices
Miss Roddy, the woman who ran our local shop in Sandymount, got the virus and survived. She is 103 and I wanted to thank her for being a total legend ... ❤️
#ThanksMissRoddy
@MarianKeyes
Late to this but
#ItsASin
is as stunning/powerful as everyone says & also vg at this time because if you are someone who needs to cry but can’t cry there are several moments during which - unless you are made of rocks - you will cry unleashing all pent up pandemic sadness 🏳️🌈
I wonder will
#AnnLovett
get a mention in the pastoral letter being read out at mass all over Ireland tomorrow. A priest made Ann’s boyfriend Ricky McDonnell burn the letter she left him, a bishop made Ricky kiss his ring, swore him to silence. The faithful might like to know.
I’ve gone back to writing full/time in
@Irishtimes
since Monday. (They say it’s like riding a bike 🤞🏻) Feel very grateful my first interviewee in my new (old) role is an astronaut. And not just any astronaut ...
@Cmdr_Hadfield
@ElectricIreland
#RocketMan
Picked up a bit of ink on paper post from the bricks & mortar
@IrishTimes
office. “I couldn’t imagine
@RositaBoland
writing an article like this”. Periods are “a very private matter”. I should be ashamed of myself … etc etc etc
#menstruationonceagain
“I hear people talking about Ireland as if the UK owns Ireland. Ireland owes the UK nothing. Ireland owes the UK no concessions, it owes it no quarter, it owes it nothing,” -
@Bonn1eGreer
who is trending in Ireland. Cheers, Bonnie!
@IrishTimesWorld
Kate Holmquist was a woman & journalist ahead of her time. She pushed boundaries with that unerring nose for what readers wanted to see in
@IrishTimes
She was warm & fun & kind. A fantastic writer. It’s so sad. Thinking of all who knew & loved Kate ❤️
I had a special bottle of champagne I’d been saving. (For what? Yeah, good point.) Tonight I put on some red lipstick & popped it and now I feel better. My friend Aisling McDermott would be proud of me. She never needed a reason to pop a cork. Pop your cork.
@kirstie
🍾
This stunning, frightening, magnificent piece by
@fotoole
has become the most widely read article ever from
@irishtimes
having been shared all around the world. Very proud to know and work with Fintan :
@IrishTimesOpEd
Thank you for lovely comments about
@anningle
on
@Tommedian
last night. I was only a sidebar but enjoyed sharing the moment. My dress is by amazing Irish designer
@orla_langan
& jewellery from
@capuletdesign
@OmDiva1
Keeping it Irish ☘️
A panel of four men are talking to a male presenter on
@RTERadio1
Morning Ireland about
#GE2020
We’ll really get somewhere when men who are asked to be on these panels say no unless the other half of the population is represented. It is not that hard.
Sorry to keep showing off about our
@PresidentIRL
but worth saying that our President throws garden parties for refugees and the people who help them in Ireland. Grateful ...
#RefugeesWelcome
#StepWithRefugees
"I expected that someone else would state the blindingly obvious, but as yet they haven’t. So here I am. I will say it.
#AnaKri
égel was murdered by boys because she was a girl". Thank you very much
@orlamuldoon
it needed to be said via
@IrishTimesOpEd
On this day in 2009 I was in Holles Street, amazed & full of wonder about the 2 new people in our world. Joya & Priya are 11 today & so far having an excellent Lockdown Pyjama Birthday. Here’s a song they do in school. Healing light to all of you from the lights of our lives ❤️
This man who pleaded guilty to sexual assault of 3 women is allowed drive a taxi around Dublin as long as he keeps female passengers in the back seat. No woman would sit in his taxi, if they knew, front seat or back
@mytaxi_ie
@IrishTimes
@TFIupdates
If we tolerate this stuff, we tell young people that it doesn't matter. I am glad to see this: "Three youths have been arrested in relation to an incident of 'violent disorder' at
#HowthJunction
Dart station in north Dublin last month. via
@IrishTimes
Just recorded the audio version. Now having a little cry. It felt good to say the words out loud. I hope she gets to see & hear them. I hope people understand that praising abusers & casting doubt on victims is part of the culture that allows the abuse to happen. Join the dots.
Ailbhe Smyth, wherever you are, thank you for your decades of work to liberate us, and our daughters and our grand daughters
#repealthe8th
#Together4Yes
Spoke to Chinese Premier Li Keqiang this morning to thank China for sending essential medical supplies. Further shipments are on their way. Ireland has offered to help China in research and maintain close contact to
#FlattenTheCurve