Tracy 💜 ☮️ 📸 ✍🏼

Grieving mom of Brendan Bjørn; Devoted mom to Declan; MS in Counseling Psy; Writing a book so need help with coffee 💜:

[Tracy 💜 ☮️ 📸 ✍🏼 @AddressingLife]

My latest blog piece. Twenty-two.

Happy Heavenly birthday, my precious son Brendan Bjørn.

Thank you for sharing your entire journey with us. Every single day and every single moment of your 17 years, 7 months and 17 days. 💜

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[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

Norway: Svalbard is warming up to seven times faster than the global average. Its Foxfonna glacier is thinning by 1 to 4 metres a year, and 10 glaciers that once reached the sea have retreated onto land.
https://t.co/2wIDKX2VPo

[Elusive Moose @elusive_moose]

Love #Vikings? Join @britishmuseum for an online talk exploring the extraordinary life of Harald Hardrada, the Norwegian viking king whose invasion of England helped shape the course of history https://t.co/i9CXChiOUl #Norway @NorwayinUK

[Tracy 💜 ☮️ 📸 ✍🏼 @AddressingLife]

@GillSherratt23 @Stephen63224725 @CarrollJennifer @SimonHarrisTD 💜

[Tracy 💜 ☮️ 📸 ✍🏼 @AddressingLife]

@ann_mcnitt So beautiful 💜

[The Scoliosis Advocacy Network #BackUs @scolionetwork]

Today, the Dáil will hear Statements on Children’s Health Ireland

The published @roinnslainte minutes of our meeting with Tánaiste Simon Harris and Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill on 12 November 2025 clearly record the commitments made to families. https://t.co/gjXpcdxlQT

What actually happened?

🚫 No Tribunal of Inquiry. The Minister did not bring the promised proposal for a Tribunal of Inquiry in principle to Cabinet. Instead, a Commission of Investigation has been recommended.

🚫 No agreed mediator. The Minister appointed a facilitator without agreement or collaboration with parents and advocacy organisations, despite the commitment to an agreed mediator.

🚫 No independent clinical expert. Despite discussions about appointing an independent clinician to assist the process, no such appointment was made.

🚫 No direct consultation with children and young people. The scoping report identifies no children or young adults living with scoliosis or spina bifida who were directly consulted.

🚫 No further meaningful engagement with families. Families requested further engagement before the terms of reference were brought before the Dáil. That engagement did not take place.

Families came to the table in good faith. We are not asking for new promises. We are asking for the commitments made on 12 November to be honoured.

@SimonHarrisTD, you were an active participant in that meeting and supported the commitments made to families.

Simon Harris, you made a promise to our children in 2017 that was never delivered. You made commitments again in November 2025. Do not fail our children twice. Honour your word.

#BackUs #JusticeForHarvey #TribunalNow @SBH_PAG

[Tracy 💜 ☮️ 📸 ✍🏼 @AddressingLife]

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[Michelle Cowbourne @Glastomichelle]

Storm brewing on Glastonbury Tor with a little bit of rainbow magic at sunrise today.

[Tracy 💜 ☮️ 📸 ✍🏼 @AddressingLife]

@Styo28183449 It's an awful advert and message.

Same. We need change.

[Tracy 💜 ☮️ 📸 ✍🏼 @AddressingLife]

How much money was spent on this advert? Who exactly decided it needed to be done, and why?

I think we have FAR bigger problems than grandparents hugging their teenage grandchild. 🤦‍♀️

[Europa.com @europa]

🇮🇪 The Irish state has published an advert discouraging grandparents from hugging their grandchildren, as part of a campaign designed to promote "consent".

[Tracy 💜 ☮️ 📸 ✍🏼 @AddressingLife]

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[RTÉ News @rtenews]

A judge in the US state of New Mexico has ordered Meta to pay $25 billion after a jury found last month that the social media giant had deceived users in a case related to the Cambridge Analytica scandal https://t.co/nxVx1bGBCd

[Carlow Weather @CarlowWeather]

Thursday morning update on #StormAusten and a wet and windy Saturday.

[Tracy 💜 ☮️ 📸 ✍🏼 @AddressingLife]

We've made international news....again...

[New York Post @nypost]

Irish pol calls for 'common sense' after gov-funded PSA calls for grandparents to get consent before hugging grandkids https://t.co/9IDbDITufP

[Tracy 💜 ☮️ 📸 ✍🏼 @AddressingLife]

@MissEllieN @faintlyfalling I just told my teenage son about the advert as he was getting ready to leave to take the bus to college this morning. I then said "I'm coming for a hug and I'm not asking consent!" We had a good laugh 🤣🤣🤣

[Tracy 💜 ☮️ 📸 ✍🏼 @AddressingLife]

@HelenLa76906221 agreed!

[Tracy 💜 ☮️ 📸 ✍🏼 @AddressingLife]

It's time for the press to collectively turn their backs to him next time (and each time) he treats a fellow reporter in such a disgusting manner.

Impeachment or the 25th amendment can't come soon enough.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Reporter: How was waiving those sanctions on Russia to secure the release of Hubbard not giving something to Russia?

Trump: Are you a stupid person? Who do you work for?

Reporter: ABC News.

Trump: You're a stupid person. Your network is the worst.

Reporter: To the point of the question, Mr. President…

[Orla Joelsen @OJoelsen]

Hi Trump!

You can repeat your Greenland fantasy a million times. It still won’t make it true.

You didn’t get Greenland. You don’t own Greenland. And you never will. Period.

Sincerely
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[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

WTF was that?

[Carlow Weather @CarlowWeather]

The wind and rain on Saturday now looks worse than what we will see from #StormAusten with over 30mm in 24 hours in parts of West and especially Southwest. Winds also look stronger on Saturday across the country.

[Tracy 💜 ☮️ 📸 ✍🏼 @AddressingLife]

@horseymatilda agreed! I think 2 days ago was the first time I saw him get really nasty with a male reporter. I shared that clip then. It was the one he said for the reporter to be quiet twice and said he was sick in the head. Awful.

[Tracy 💜 ☮️ 📸 ✍🏼 @AddressingLife]

@LeoKavanagh I'm sure they're all very tempted!

[RTÉ News @rtenews]

#Breaking Legislation to scrap the Triple Lock has passed its first vote in the Dáil tonight after 79 TDs backed the change and 71 opposed it https://t.co/cRjM4ZABzq