A Girl In Crisis ✨

Review of all nursing homes operated by Emeis Ireland requested by Department of Health Admissions to Portlaoise nursing home, one of two featured in RTÉ Investigates programme on Wednesday, halted due to ‘significant concerns’

Review of all nursing homes operated by Emeis Ireland requested by Department of Health

Dublin City Council pays €2m a year for vacant hostel The building's landlord is an investment fund promoted by barrister Ross Maguire

Dublin City Council pays €2m a year for vacant hostel

And we're still authorising the bonds that fund this.

FFFG not even pretending to give a damn anymore.

#spéirghorm #housing #IrishPol

Caption: "Can't see the haters cause my eyes aren't open (I am very sleepy)" Pic: a very cute ginger kitten on a sofa struggling to open their eyes

YEAH

To offer legal support in a much faster asylum system next year, Legal Aid Board fights for more funding, documents show It’s a year until the EU’s Migration and Asylum Pact comes into force, and with it, big changes with implications for legal support.

To offer legal support in a much faster asylum system next year, Legal Aid Board fights for more funding, documents show. Some of the timeframes envisioned are so short that it calls into question the board's ability to provide meaningful service, LAB wrote. www.dublininquirer.com/to-offer-leg...

You wouldn't download everything every artist has ever made and put it into environmental destruction clippy, in the you wouldn't download a car meme format

They used to make commercials about this

By how much did the cost of living rise in the last decade I wonder?

You’re not lazy, you’re overwhelmed. You’re not antisocial, you’re drained. You’re not broken, you’re trying to survive in a system built to burn you out.

Plaque to honour Irish activist Madeleine ffrench-Mullen A plaque commemorating Irish revolutionary, social activist and co-founder of Dublin's first children's hospital, Madeleine ffrench-Mullen has been unveiled in the capital.

A plaque commemorating Irish revolutionary, social activist and co-founder of Dublin's first children’s hospital, Madeleine ffrench-Mullen has been unveiled in the capital

'These children are skin and bone', says surgeon in Gaza A surgeon working in Gaza has said that children there are so malnourished that it is impacting on their ability to heal and recover from surgery.

A surgeon working in Gaza has said that children there are so malnourished that it is impacting on their ability to heal and recover from surgery

14-year-old Cara Darmody has begun a 50-hour sleep out protest outside Leinster House over delays in assessment of needs.

The Tipperary teen says previous Governments broke promises on the issue.

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From March 2023:

“The result, just to look at it again, was that the Government decided that they would see thousands of people made homeless, as a deliberate result of their public policy, so that landlords (institutional or individual) could see higher returns from their property investments.”

Abusive behaviour by intimate partners to be treated as aggravating factor in domestic violence sentences Good character is ‘at best a minor’ factor in mitigation, according to new guidance for judges

Abusive behaviour by intimate partners to be treated as aggravating factor in domestic violence sentences

I think calling it a Housing Tsar was a blunder. But housing touches so many policy points and lots of them are outside the scope of the Housing Minister: especially considering how ministries are chopped up and shared out based on how many govt TDs are "due one" rather than optimal function.

Reminder: nobody has ever heard of Bluesky. You can post anything you like here. It will never be seen by anybody on the surface world

I of course a wine or two down think it’s a fantastic idea 💡

Thinking of starting up an old school blog for my writing whims. Workshopping a title such as a girl in crisis although I don’t know how tongue in cheek humour would be received if people don’t know it’s both a hint to my day job but also a slight jab at the ills of my personal life

"My milkshake hits all the fash in the yard..."

How I imagine the editorial staff at the Irish Times are functioning these days:
Irish Times: GET ME EVERY OPINION YOU CAN MUSTER ON KNEECAP, STAT!

This sums the whole situation up quite nicely.

turns out there's a word in Gaelic for pretty much exactly the intersection of belonging & place that i set out to study at UHI. on Dùthchas as home & worldview...a report preview ;)

four key ways UHI staff frame belonging in their local communities & campuses:
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Yes that is a very burnt pastel de nata. Got to balance out the health with a sweet treat

Morning view is giving granny kitsch, I love it

The banana bread in particular absolutely slaps