Biff and Finn - Proud Paddystinian

The Omicron variant significantly increases viral load emissions in healthcare settings: implication for healthcare workers The SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant is transmitted via contaminated droplets and aerosols, raising concerns in healthcare settings where poor ventilation and high patient density can increase airborne vira...

Journal of Hospital Infection

“healthcare workers face significant exposure in rooms with COVID patients, even when mechanically ventilated. Greater attention should be given to treating & managing [air] to reduce potential for viral transmission” www.journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/S019...

Important insights from UK Covid Inquiry into the political “thinking” around the decisions not to protect children & (in many cases) their clinically vulnerable families

My closing submissions in the children and young people module of the Covid Inquiry, on behalf of Clinically Vulnerable Families

See the two tweets below #SpéirGhorm - it’s a simple action and if we don’t all do this, then we’re complicit too

EU states sent 69 million rounds of ammunition to Israel Israeli media reported last year the state was facing an ammunition shortage.

The Ditch can exclusively report that EU states exported 69 million rounds of ammunition to Israel since October 2023 under the controversial EU-Israel trade agreement.

That includes 15 million rounds sent to Israel in the first four months of this year.

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If you’ve never been woken up at 3am to consult on the least bad treatment option for a pregnant COVID patient in the MICU, your “recommendation” means nothing to me

Not at all! It was well-deserved for such a hard achievement

Just checking in to see if you’ve had a chance to talk to your lawyer friend yet?

🎯 A powerful statement from @cleanairie.bsky.social - it’s time for the Dept. Of Education to implement the tools we have and promote clean air in #schools

#SpeirGorm #SpéirGorm #cleanairireland #longcovid #publichealth

Irish pro-Palestine activists embrace ‘Paddystinian’ term as badge of honour Believed to have originated as an insult by Israel supporters, neologism is now used to campaign against war in Gaza

Our Chairperson Zoë Lawlor on Irish solidarity with Palestine and how our government must sanction apartheid Israel for its genocidal crimes. #FreePalestine #SolidarityIsAVerb 🇵🇸
Irish pro-Palestine activists embrace ‘Paddystinian’ term as badge of honour
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I stitched this old tweet by @ladyofsardines.bsky.social and remind myself of its truth literally every day.

Hundreds of Ireland's lawyers sign letter saying government should enact Occupied Territories Bill The open letter from lawyers on both sides of the border said that the Irish Government must enact the legislation to meet its obligations under international law.

Thanks Deborah. Just remembered, I also saw this on Friday. I’d like to use fact in my email tomorrow rather then just a vague reference, otherwise I know my td’s will just come back with some version of an “oh no, it is illegal cause we said it is” response

www.thejournal.ie/open-letter-...

Is there any more info on the legal advice cause this is the last I’ve heard about it

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📣 Irish folks, we need to press for the Bill to include goods & services produced in the unlawful Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Call/email on Monday. The Government says goods/services cannot be included, but campaigners have received expert legal advice to the contrary.

#SpéirGhorm

Hope some Irish journalists are going #speirgorm

389. Finding Hope and Community when Everything Is Broken – Abubaker Abed Podcast Episode · The Echo Chamber from Tortoise Shack · 22/05/2025 · 1 sec

This was a very powerful episode. This young man has been through so much in his short life. So articulate and proud of his people.

And if you wonder whether marching and protesting makes any difference he says it does - to the people of Gaza.

#SpeirGorm

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Spent an afternoon eating sweet things & savory dumplings prepared by Ukrainian residents of my local town for cultural exchange in our local agri show centre partially organized by the community who runs it. That's real Ireland not divisive rhetoric & individualism #speirgorm

Two directors at one of the biggest asylum seeker accommodation firms shared €4.68m last year The spend on accommodating IP applicants was €1 billion last year, after paying out €280m in the final quarter.

Profiting of the misery of people.
like the nuns did in the magdalene laundries.

#Speirgorm

www.thejournal.ie/two-director...

The rain didn't dampen anyone's spirits in #Ballina today for the weekly #bridgil.
#spéirghorm

Heads up, Ireland.

#speirgorm @news.rte.ie @irishtimes.com @jclannon.bsky.social @ivanabacik.bsky.social

“The daily atrocities in Gaza carry an appalling human toll and are being perpetrated by Israel in overt defiance of fundamental rules of international law and human rights,” states the letter, signed by barristers, solicitors and academics based in the Republic, Northern Ireland, England, Belgium and Australia. Successive Irish governments “have delayed and prevaricated” on the Occupied Territories Bill when there are no “insurmountable legal obstacles” in either Irish, European or international law preventing the adoption of legislation prohibiting the import of goods and services produced in the unlawful Israeli settlements in the West Bank, it states.

350 lawyers and academics proving the #government wrong. Naturally.
#spéirghorm
@micheal-martin.bsky.social @simonharrisireland.bsky.social
@fiannafailparty.bsky.social
@finegael.bsky.social
@oireachtasnews.bsky.social

This is what FF FG elected representatives think of you, their constituents, who care about babies being murdered.

Lads we're not doing nearly enough. None of us are.

#speirghorm #irishpol

Marriage equality 10 years on: 'I lost count of how many times I was called a pervert in my home town' Forcing a community to plead on doorsteps for their rights has had long-term impacts on many LGBT+ people, argues Maria Ní Fhlatharta

This is a necessary read - yes #marref was a great result, it showed the resilience, solidarity & fabulousness of LGBTIQ+ ireland but it also left a lot of hurt & trauma in its wake- having to ask your neighbour for what they took for granted was hard #speirgorm www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Well done. That’s a hell of an achievement 👏