Alan Hammond

[Alan Hammond @AlanHammon33429]

@sophiegrenham Awe what a flirty fellow he is 🥰🫦

[Leo Forde 💙💚 @LeoForde]

@Support can you please help @thepainterflynn with his account which he has requested but so far been ignored. He is currently a cancer patient and uses. X as a primary form of communication with his 30000 followers ago despite his optimism he may have to begin saying goodbye to

[Katiesfighttokeepwalking @Katiesfight24]

Today Katie is standing in front of me wearing not one, but two braces, her compression socks, and her orthotics just to try and hold herself together.
Our very own Lara Croft. She said it, not me. And to be fair, she is still managing to smile through it all.
But behind the laugh, there is a reality that is much harder to see.
People see the smile. They see Katie standing there. What they do not see is what it takes for her body to do even that.
They do not see how much support she needs just to get through the day. They do not see the discomfort. They do not see the exhaustion. They do not see how hard she has to fight just to do the things most people never even have to think about.
Katie is too young for this.
Too young to need all of this just to hold herself together. Too young to be battling through pain and discomfort while trying to live some kind of normal life. Too young to be fighting this hard just to stand, walk, and keep going.
As her mam, that is the part that breaks me.
Because she should be free. She should be comfortable. She should be enjoying her life, not trying to hold herself together with braces and supports.
But this is Katie.
Still smiling. Still standing. Still fighting.
So please, do not scroll past her.
Please help me fight for my daughter. If you can donate, please do. If you cannot, please share.
Because behind the smile and the joke is a young girl carrying far more than she ever should have to, and she deserves the chance of a better life.
https://t.co/9CZfARcKw1

[Alan Hammond @AlanHammon33429]

@sophiegrenham Twister diet for the week 👍😏

[Alan Hammond @AlanHammon33429]

@Alan__Shatter No comment on this 🤔

[Alan Hammond @AlanHammon33429]

@britmatters Really 🤔

[Alan Hammond @AlanHammon33429]

@AoifeEccles @KevinPosobiec @gardainfo @gardarep

[Alan Hammond @AlanHammon33429]

@RtHonBTaplow @DrLoupis__

[Jim Sweeney. @oldnurse55]

#irishtwitter
Good evening friends.
I've been asked to let you know that Alan @AMLaCassePhoto is in hospital at the moment. Hopefully a short stay.
Can we please send him our continued love and support at this time 💚🙏

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Piers Morgan's origin.

[Alan Hammond @AlanHammon33429]

@Lynda_ODonoghue Just the lower tiers open would create a better atmosphere 🤔🇮🇪

[Alan Hammond @AlanHammon33429]

@mooreholmes24 @niamh_journo @BelTel Holy moly.. what a lot of words to say absolutely nothing

[Ciara Mc Evoy @ciaramc78]

@fiannafailparty https://t.co/8zkj3TG6AU

[Alan Hammond @AlanHammon33429]

#ResignHarris #HowIrelandWorks #ScoliosisScandal #noconfidence #resignmartin #latelateshow

[Katiesfighttokeepwalking @Katiesfight24]

Why is @SimonHarrisTD being allowed to fade into the wallpaper while @MichealMartinTD takes all the blame?

This is not a one-man Government.
This is a coalition.
Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are both responsible for what is happening in this country.

Both of them wanted power.
Both of them took power.
Both of them are still holding onto power.
So both of them should answer for the consequences of that power.

Simon Harris should not be allowed to stand there and act removed from any of this.
He is not removed from it.
He is part of it.
Up to his neck in it.

The public anger should not stop with Micheál Martin.
It should reach every minister, every party, and every politician propping this Government up while ordinary people are left to struggle.

Because when a Government fails, the blame does not belong to one man.
It belongs to every person sitting around that Cabinet table and every party keeping the show on the road.

Shared Government.
Shared decisions.
Shared blame.

[Alan Hammond @AlanHammon33429]

@JamieBrysonLLB Quote tweeting yer own shite now 🤔😂

[Dr Harold News @DrHaroldNews]

Just a brief return to congratulate our very own Rory Cowan, who has just been awarded Mental Gymnastics Champion of the Year 2026.

Congratulations @1rorycowan. We are all so very proud of you x

[Alan Hammond @AlanHammon33429]

#noconfidence #resignmartin #ResignHarris #ScoliosisScandal #howirelandworks #liveline

[Katiesfighttokeepwalking @Katiesfight24]

Another day stolen from Katie.
Today she cannot get out of bed. Not because she is not trying. Not because she does not want to. But because her body is simply exhausted.
She only managed 2 days in school this week. Monday was spent in Cappagh having surgery. Tuesday she was left sore and in pain from it. Somehow, she pushed herself back into school on Wednesday and Thursday, trying to keep going, trying to hold onto some normality, trying to be like every other young person her age.
And today, she has nothing left.

It is soul destroying as a mother to watch your child fight this hard just to do the basics, only for her body to completely give up on her afterwards.
Katie keeps trying. She keeps pushing. She keeps showing up whenever she can. But this is not living. This is surviving.
Please keep sharing Katie’s story. Please keep helping us fight for the treatment she so desperately needs. Because she cannot keep losing days, weeks and years of her life like this.

https://t.co/6DV7gdhjTa

[Alan Hammond @AlanHammon33429]

#howirelandworks #ResignHarris #resignmartin #liveline #noconfidence

[Katiesfighttokeepwalking @Katiesfight24]

For 15 years Katie has been suffering.
Fifteen years of pain. Fifteen years of waiting. Fifteen years of being failed.
That is the very same length of time @MichealMartinTD has been leader of Fianna Fáil. And the day I spoke to him outside the Rochestown Park Hotel, I told him that this would be his legacy.
Because that is exactly what it is.
A young girl left to suffer for 15 years. A family left to fight, beg and plead to be heard. A system that stays silent until public pressure forces it to move. And politicians who ignore people in private, then scramble to respond when they are called out in public.
Katie reached out about her desperate fight for hip surgery and told many td's and was ignored by @JamesOConnorTD even after he stood at our hall door and promised to help her. THE SAME PERSON NOW CRITICISING MICHEAL MARTIN. The same happened with @AnneRabbitte and Mary Butler. Micheál Martin only responded after I publicly confronted him. Not out of decency. Not because it was the right thing to do. But because he had no choice.
And that is the truth of it.
Why does it always take public pressure, embarrassment and being called out before these politicians act? Why are families ignored behind closed doors, but suddenly acknowledged when the spotlight is on them? Why do people have to suffer for years before anybody finds their voice?
Even after everything, James O’Connor still walked straight past Katie outside Dáil Éireann while she sat in her wheelchair trying to highlight the reality of how she is being left without the surgery she needs.
He walked straight past her.
That single moment says more than any speech, statement or fake outrage ever could.
And now these same people want to criticise the Taoiseach. They want to point fingers. They want to act outraged. They want to talk about standards, leadership and accountability.
But where were their standards when Katie was ignored? Where was their leadership when she was crying out for help? Where was their accountability when they could not even show the basic decency of replying to the people whose issues had been directly brought to their attention?
It is hypocrisy. Pure and simple.
They are loud in public and absent in private. Full of words when there is a microphone nearby, but silent when a real family is standing in front of them begging to be heard. Quick to attack each other, but nowhere to be found when ordinary people need compassion, urgency and action.
Katie is not a headline. She is not a prop. She is not a political inconvenience to be stepped over and ignored.

And this week has only added to that legacy of failure.
So no, I do not want lectures from TDs about leadership or accountability. Not when our lived experience has been silence, indifference and hypocrisy. Not when it took publicly confronting Micheál Martin to get any sort of response. Not when James O’Connor, Anne Rabbitte and Mary Butler could ignore Katie’s pain. Not when James O’Connor could walk straight past her outside Dáil Éireann as though she did not matter.
Katie said it herself years ago, and she was right: “Remember, we are the ones who decide whether you keep your seat or not.”
People are watching now. People are angry. People are tired of the hypocrisy. People are tired of being ignored. And at the next election, I believe a lot of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael politicians may finally learn what happens when you fail the very people you were elected to represent.
For me, Micheál Martin’s legacy will not be speeches or spin.
It will be this:
Fifteen years that Katie suffered. Fifteen years that families like ours were ignored. Fifteen years of failure.
And this week has only made that legacy worse.
Don't even get me started on @SimonHarrisTD because we all know what he is capable of when it comes to health and false promises

[Alan Hammond @AlanHammon33429]

@JamieBrysonLLB Any update on attendance figures 🤔