Kathy O'Sullivan

"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking" - Einstein

[Kathy O'Sullivan @KathyOSullivan9]

Anniversary of Dad’s death today. My father taught me freedom is something never to take for granted. We need to protect it, safeguard it, understand it is our right. Time to sing loudly
https://t.co/YEpqVX4OAy

[Kathy O'Sullivan @KathyOSullivan9]

@Ciaran060756 😁

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

🇮🇪 Irish is an "endangered language" with less than 80,000 native speakers left.

[Irish Mammy Warrior @Eire4Christ]

My son started his Leaving Cert today. Like every parent, I wish him and every student the very best.

But no matter how well he does, he's already planning to leave Ireland.

His brothers have gone before him.
Think about that for a moment.

Three Irish sons, forced to build their futures on the other side of the world while politicians congratulate themselves and tell us everything is fine.

It is not fine.

What is the point of encouraging our children to study hard, work hard, and achieve their dreams if they have to leave their own country to have any chance of a decent future?

Ireland is losing its young people. We are losing our sons and daughters.

I oppose the EU Migration Pact and I believe the Irish people should be given a referendum. Let the people decide the future of their country.

Good luck to every Leaving Cert student today. You deserve more than a certificate. You deserve the chance to build a life in the country of your birth.

[Gold🤍🌚 @GOLDBABYO]

My 16-year-old son with Down syndrome was so excited to apply for his first job at the local grocery store, but after three interviews, he kept getting turned down. Each rejection crushed him a little more, and he started saying he’d never be good enough to work anywhere. I was heartbroken watching his confidence disappear. Then we walked into Murphy’s Hardware Store, and my son lit up seeing all the organized tools and supplies. The owner, Mr. Murphy, noticed him carefully straightening a display of screws that had gotten messy. ‘You’ve got a good eye for organization,’ he told my son. ‘Are you looking for work?’ When I explained about the previous rejections, Mr. Murphy just shrugged. ‘Their loss. Can you start Monday?’ For the past eight months, my son has been their most reliable employee always on time, never calls in sick, and customers love his genuine enthusiasm for helping them find what they need. ‘Best hiring decision I ever made,’ Mr. Murphy told me recently. ‘He sees the job as important, and that makes all the difference.’ My son comes home every day proud of his work, finally understanding that the right place will see his worth.

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

Do. not. stop.

Thoreau

[ConceptDairy™ @ConceptDairy]

These cheeses are made in the SAME factory.
One costs nearly 3x more.
The farmer gets paid the same for the milk either way.

Dairy farmers are being paid BELOW the cost of production.
Like, Comment, Save & Share to stand with dairy farmers.

Source: @AgrilandIreland

[Mark W. @DurhamWASP]

“The test of democracy is not whether the people vote, but whether the people rule.”

G.K. Chesterton

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Swans have one off the coolest landing technique ever.. 😊

[Chad Byrne @chadpbyrne]

Very relevant for chefs in Munster , keep her country Stellar work !
And Lee strand because they pay farmers more per litre of milk
Keep her country and keep shouting about our Agri sector 👊🏻🇮🇪

[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

Not good.

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

"In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity ... which Nature cannot repair."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Madeleine Ebbs @MadeleineEbbs57]

Don't know who this man is, but OMG.
Long time since I heard anyone speak the truth with such passion. We need to be shouting this from the rooftops.
We need to wake drip fed sheeple...

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

A rescued swan hugging the vet who saved its life, the sweetest thank you ever!

[Carvill John @JohnJCarvill]

Another great contribution from @1PaulLawless. He and @kenoflynnTD were outstanding today. They should find a way to present the Irish people with a new real alternative to FFG. They would be unstoppable.

[Kathy O'Sullivan @KathyOSullivan9]

@VC2243 @CilComLFC Exactly. They want to be there for the EU presidency.

[AMASS @AMASSMOVEMENT]

This week, farmers blocked roads across Ireland to say enough is enough on the so-called "green" agenda. Here in Co. Galway, we don't need to block a road to show you what that agenda looks like up close.

It looks like a French private equity firm @OmnesCapital and their local proxy @power_capital targeting the finest arable tillage land in the county for industrial solar panels, BESS, and a 220kV substation - calling to farmers' doors 8 and 9 times to pressure them into signing up.

It looks like a Christmas Day rampage through our community, pulling down protest signs and damaging private property.

It looks like illegal works carried out without licence or permission around a recorded monument in Oakwood South - works that @NationalMons has called "unauthorised" and in contravention to the National Monuments (Amendment) Act.

It looks like @power_capital telling @Independent_ie that enforcement action on lands within their own stated project site has "no connection" to them - then running a full-page @TuamHerald ad naming the exact same townland days later.

And it looks like @pleanala case VC61.323452, which is on the public record and names Power Capital Developments Ltd as applicant for that substation - tied to Folio GY52584F, the same folio on PCRE's own red line project map in Oakwood South, where Galway Co. Co. has issued a S.154 enforcement notice and four local residents have been forced to take a S.160 injunction to protect their land and their community.

The farmers on the road this week were right. The targeted campaign of driving a "green" agenda via harassment and intimidation in our community is exactly what they were protesting. We stand with them.
#AMASS #NoSolarOnTillageLand #GalwayFarmers #FuelProtests

[IRISH PATRIOT @irishpatriot91]

I'm sharing this message, I have attached the link at the bottom. 🇮🇪

People have had ENOUGH!

A MESSAGE TODAY FROM A STRUGGLING NURSE,

A message from an exhausted nurse in response to the protests.

I am a 26-year-old nurse who bought a house just before Christmas. Myself and my partner worked super hard for this after renting for 4 years. I work full time with the HSE in a NICU and extra as agency. I work on average 60 hours a week for the last 3 years, I havent taken a week off in that time (on my due annual leave I book 4 agency shifts).
We bought in the country as housing is much more affordable, as a result my commute to work is 100km one way. I have €200 in my bank account to do me until the end of the month, with the way things are going my predicted fuel costs just to get me to and from work is €400. I’m contemplating sleeping in my car between shifts just to save some money. I don’t know what to do, me and my partner are very frugal, we only buy our meat from the 75% off section in aldi and freeze it, we don’t eat out, we’ve cut our food portions smaller, we allow ourselves 1 social outing a month to meet friends and thats only ever for lunch or a coffee but we are thinking of putting that on pause too. We’ve agreed that when we run out of oil we won’t be refilling it.

I understand we are one of the more privileged in the country at the minute and are grateful for all we have. However, what should be one of the happiest and most exciting times in our lives has turned into one of the most stressful with the pressure of making sure we are putting enough money aside each month to cover our mortgage. I look online and see my fellow nurses living it up in Australia wondering if we made the right decision to stay and work in Ireland…

To those out on the protest lines, just know there is so much more of us behind you than you realise. I am so proud to see so many of us come together and say enough is enough, I’m just hoping the people remember this when voting season comes back around…

Also to note: nobody I work with in either hospitals has been affected coming to or from work, in fact one of my agency colleagues got lost going to a new hospital and the protesters not only let her through the barricade but one of the lads drove ahead of her to make sure she got to where she was going.

https://t.co/FVpWhRsdIp

[Rob Carry @RobCarryBray]

Oil is up 7% on markets this morning to $103 a barrel.

So the Government's 10 cent per litre 'deal' announced yesterday has been all but wiped out.

#fuelprice #fuelprotests #ireland

[Michael McCarthy @punishablepress]

🇮🇪 Spontaneous protests are forming all across Ireland.

What started out as fuel protest have developed into something much bigger.