Niamh Ní Hoireabhaird

I’m a queer Palestinian. Stop using my identity as cover for the destruction of Gaza | Jad Salfiti Rightwingers in Israel and the US claim they are defending LGBTQ+ rights while Gaza’s people are killed. Don’t dare do this in our name, says British-Palestinian video producer and journalist Jad Salfiti

I’m a queer Palestinian. Stop using my identity as cover for the destruction of Gaza | Jad Salfiti

Video description: Niamh is a young woman with brown hair and white skin. She is wearing glasses and a red top. She is sitting in the centre of the frame and talking to the camera.

Hi, im Niamh. I’m an disabled journalist who mostly covers disabilities issues. #disability #disabled #disabilitytiktok #disabledinthemedia #journalist TikTok video by Niamh | disability journalist

I’ve always been frustrated with the mainstream media’s lack of interest in disability. I often like the media is refusing to diversify and make space for disabled stories, so I’ve decided to tell them myself.

Follow me on TokTik @niamhnih!

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The choices are not equal Raúl Krauthausen challenges segregation of disabled people in Germany

Many of us are gathering in Berlin next week for the Global Disability summit.

But Germany's treatment of disabled people has a troublesome underside – it segregates hundreds of thousands.

Talking with @raulkrauthausen.bsky.social I find out more:

www.disabilitydebrief.org/debrief/choi...

'Because I won the Oscar': Palestinian director says Israeli soldiers helped settlers to attack him Ballal, co-director of Oscar-winning film “No Other Land”, was assaulted by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank on Monday.

Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal has said that he was attacked by Israeli settlers for winning an Academy Award earlier this month
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Six women sitting in a row, each of us have a mic. There is an ISL interpreter behind the speakers. There is a screen in the background with our names and photos. The speakers are me, Sineád Burke, Dr. Sineád Kane, Blezzing Dada and Paula Nolan. Maryam Madani is facilitating.

A photo of me speaking. I have a mic on and I'm wearing a blue checkered dress. Maryam Madani is listening to me. She has a mic ad a yellow dress. There are ISL interpreters behind us.

I was genuinely honored to sit amongst these amazing disabled women last week on International Women's Day to talk about representation, intersectionality, and disability justice. #IWD2025 #AccelerateAction

Thank you Sightsavers Ireland for hosting this event!

There is a shameful British tradition of demonising disabled people. Why is Labour reigniting it? | Frances Ryan Ministers run away from a wealth tax and then concoct a punitive benefits system. They have made that choice and it’s immoral, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

Labour’s reported disability benefit cuts are not just about budgeting but a belief: paid work is a virtue (and people who don’t perform it deserve a worse life than everyone else).

My col. in tomorrow’s paper. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Debunked: Enoch Burke payment claim that was shared by Musk is filled with misinformation The post Musk shared was made by a racist conspiracy theorist account.

A post on X that was re-shared by Elon Musk contains numerous false claims about teacher Enoch Burke and his legal troubles.

Burke is not being punished for refusing to use pronouns, and fines against him are not new and have never been collected.

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Labour’s proposed disability benefit cuts are nothing short of terrifying, say campaigners The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) cuts appear to be focused on the Personal Independent Payment (PIP), reports award-winning disabled journalist Rachel Charlton-Dailey

A great explainer by @rachelcdailey.bsky.social.

I'm not being hyperbolic when I say that these proposed cuts are terrifying and will hurt (maybe even kill) thousands of British disabled people.

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Thank you Rita! I'm very glad you liked it :)

Living with a rare disease: 'After so long, we're reluctant to take the government at its word' Niamh Ní Hoireabhaird says talk is cheap when governments promise action on supports for people in Ireland with rare diseases.

For #RareDiseaseDay I wrote for the Journal about rare diseases in Ireland.

Although I was glad to hear that a new National Rare Disease Strategy is on the horizon, I still wonder if the government actually cares about rare diseases. Can you blame me?

www.thejournal.ie/readme/rare-...

Two people in a group of protestors, holding signs in French. A white man with a beard sitting in a wheelchair holds a sign saying "Votre inaction c'est notre marginalisation". Next to him a white woman standing with a sign saying "Je n'ai pas honte de mon handicap, cést exclusion la honte."

“We have a right to be angry” – protestors on the 20th anniversary of France's disability law.

All this more from around the world in today's Debrief, covering disability news from 45+ countries:

www.disabilitydebrief.org/debrief/righ...

Photo by Matthieu Delaty/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images.

‘As a disabled young woman, I have to choose between my clothes being functional or fashionable. Is the new Penneys adaptive range the answer?’ If you were to have asked me when I was 11 what I wanted to be when I was older, I would have told you I was going to be a fashion designer.

I'm in today's Irish Independent Weekend Magazine with my thoughts on Pennys new range of adaptive clothing and the landscape of the adaptive fashion industry!

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I'm mourning the progressive cabinet we could have had with the likes of Holly Carins as Minister for Disability and Rory Hearne or Eoin Ó Broin as Minister for Housing.

'Depressing': Micheál Martin criticised for appointing just three women to Cabinet There are as many women as there are men called James in the new Cabinet.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin is facing backlash for his decision to appoint just three women to his 15-member government. 

There are as many women as there are men called James in the new Cabinet.

http://www.thejournal.ie/new-government-women-6603232-Jan2025/

Great piece, Owen 👏 I'm glad the Guardian published it.

sadly true!

I haven't posted on Twitter in a week (and I don't plan to do so anytime soon) but I have a whole network there that I just don't want to give up... Where is the Irish disability community on here? ♿

successfully pitched it elsewhere! All is well but my ego is brised 🫤

I'm FUMING that a (very big) publication took my pitch and commissioned somebody else to write it. Being a freelancer feels impossible 😭

This bodes well.

His love for Iran rubs me up the wrong way.

As a European who doesn't really feel like scrolling through twenty million takes on the US TikTok ban, I might spend the rest of today just reading a book

The Irish-speaking section is called Gaeltok (like Gaeltacht) and I just think it's a great name

These Gaeilgeoirí are making Irish fun again on social media – follow them if you want to improve your cúpla focal Bubbling just under the surface of the app, there is a thriving community of Gaeilgeorí on TikTok.

Scríobh mé an alt seo faoi Gaeilgeoirí ar TikTok (Gaeltok) agus a gcuid leideanna maidir le níos mó Gaeilge a úsáid. 🌟

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Surrealing in the Years: 2025 begins on a Dickensian note, and not in a fun way It was not the best of times.

"What about the safety of those sleeping rough? What about their concerns? If you’re scared to walk down O’Connell St at night, then what of the people who have to spend all night, every night, on those same streets, cold, hungry and possibly in pain?"

Surrealing:

www.thejournal.ie/readme/surre...

I wrote about eight brilliant activists that you need to keep an eye on in 2025! With these people making waves, the future definitely seems to be in good hands.

Gisele Pelicot leaves the Avignon courthouse after hearing the defence's final plea at the trial of her former partner Dominique Pelicot accused of drugging her for nearly ten years and inviting strangers to rape her at their home in Mazan, a small town in the south of France, in Avignon, on December 16, 2024. A court in the French southern town of Avignon is trying Dominique Pelicot, a 71-year-old retiree, for repeatedly raping and enlisting dozens of strangers to rape his heavily sedated wife in her own bed over a decade. Fifty other men, aged between 26 and 74, are also on trial for alleged involvement, in a case that has horrified France. The court proceedings, which runs until December, are open to the public at the request of Dominique Pelicot's ex-wife and victim. (Photo by CLEMENT MAHOUDEAU / AFP) (Photo by CLEMENT MAHOUDEAU/AFP via Getty Images)

The landmark trial shocked and moved people in France and around the world. Gisèle Pelicot, the 71-year-old woman at the centre of the case, requested that it be open to the public. www.ft.com/content/d8e5...