In the Irish care system, the sibling bond is too often the forgotten relationship. While it’s the longest lasting connection a child will ever have, it is frequently severed by a system under pressure and needs serious attention @DeptCDE@OcoIreland@epicireland
Met a man recently who volunteered for the clinical trials of my medication 25 years ago. Today, on #DaffodilDay2026 I’m wearing my pin for him and every researcher making the impossible possible.
Research isn't just science—it's time. And it's the greatest gift we can give.
Sometimes the most powerful moments are the unplanned ones.
During a quiet Mass in Capri, Andrea Bocelli stepped forward, unannounced and sang Ave Maria.
No stage. No spotlight. Just a voice offered in reverence.
It’s a reminder for this week that beauty doesn’t always arrive with ceremony.
Grace can appear quietly, in ordinary moments, if we’re present enough to notice.
May this week bring a little stillness, a little humility, and an openness to moments that lift the soul often when we least expect them.
@irishexaminer Having been intubated with a nasogastric tube for 2 weeks following emergency bowel resection surgery to remove a 15cm tumour in diameter, I can honestly say I would not be responsible for what I would do or say to DJ Carey. He is the lowest level of human.
@NiecyOKeeffe No exaggeration but have had at least 50 breast aspirations and biopsies over the last 20yrs. It never gets easier walking through the doors or hearing the biopsy needle click & the week of dreads ahead which I'll be facing again next week.
@Sineadmcgar It beggars belief that he knew that kind of monstrous website existed and set up all those engagements. There's a serious deficit and qs need to be asked within AGS about how this man and others with him are serving the public.
Social media—the digital village square where every slack-jawed racist gets a megaphone. Today’s masterstroke? A brainless rumour that Ballymena’s displaced were being stashed in Larne Leisure Centre. Never mind that it wasn't true—why let facts interfere with a good old-fashioned racist panic? So, like clockwork, the local goblins emerged from their caves, torches in hand, and turned the place into a bonfire. Because nothing says 'civilised society' like burning down a community facility over a lie some halfwit pulled straight from his arse.. Bravo, lads. Darwin is weeping.
British surgeon Victoria Rose, who's just returned from Gaza: "They're coming through the doors like a conveyor belt... really small children with massive injuries.. bits of their bodies blown off... every day at least half [of my cases] were under the age of 11.. its barbaric"
Private means for profit. Profit means money. And thats the sole interest of these private companies masked as 'caring organisations' with lovely names. There is no model of care. They are businesses. #RTEInvestigates
Theres alot to be said for female lead investigators in cases like #TinaSatchwell#rtept Perhaps they should be reviewing all cases of Irelands missing women.
Outstanding and rigorous journalism by #rteinvestigates The remnants of Catholic Ireland remains alive and well in how we continue to mistreat vulnerable children and adults with the strange inability to tell the truth when they are not protected.