I promise this is the last post of the 2025/26 rowing season by me!
My baby, Clodagh (15yrs) and her crew won big at Irish Rowing Championships:
🏆 Women’s J16 4+,
🏆 Women’s J18 4-
🏆 Women’s J18 8+
Meanwhile my gorgeous boy Cillian (17yrs) and his crew won:
🏆 Men’s J18 8+ 💪
And this happened yesterday 💪 Two Rowers in the Donaghy house winning Pots yesterday at Irish Rowing Championships. Clodagh (15yrs) in Women’s J18 4- and Cillian (17yrs) in Men’s J18 8+ 🔥🔥
@HenleyRegatta Thank you Lily for the opportunity to wax
lyrical 😁 Enjoyed more fabulous sun at Henley On Thames than we ever experience in Fermanagh! Once in a lifetime experience having my three youngest row at HRR in the same year - thanks to everyone in #ERBC and #Taurusboatclub
Triple threat from County Fermanagh 📰
For parents who have put in the early hour drives to training and weekends full of spectating that come with having a child who excels at sport, that child making it to the pinnacle of their chosen sport’s competition is the greatest reward for the sweetest investment. For Bernie Donaghy, Henley Royal Regatta brought that reward threefold.
Read the full article on the HRR news page 🔗
One of the things we often get wrong in health & care improvement is prioritising performance improvement (process-technical aspects) over the emotional experience of participants. We need to make consideration of emotional factors one of our highest priorities in change initiatives. This includes:
1) how we make connections with values, through emotions, to engage people in change &
2) appreciating emotions & related cognitions & behaviours surrounding events during change.
See: https://t.co/cpQsfsNVds Via @StevenHCady. Graphic: @gapingvoid
Watch @AndyMcDonaldMP grilling the current Post Office CEO Nick Read last June
"What is so extraordinary about you that you feel you deserve a whacking bonus of £455,000 to make your total pay £870,000"
Andy: The metric used to calculate part of the Post Office executives' bonuses was based on false information in the accounts relating to the inquiry into the Horizon scandal.
Andy: The executives must return all inquiry-related bonuses immediately
Launch of HSE Self Advocacy Strategy Disability Services CH CDLMS took place at todays Self-Advocacy event "Our Voice Our Choice" in Donegal. @HSELive@DisabilityFed@InclusionIre
Launch of HSE Self Advocacy Strategy Disability Services CH CDLMS took place at todays Self-Advocacy event "Our Voice Our Choice" in Donegal. @HSELive@DisabilityFed@InclusionIre
Join Prof @AmandaPhelan1 to explore a human rights based approach to #adultsafeguarding.
📅 1.15-2pm, 9 Nov
📌 In person and online
As part of our Tell Me About public lecture series, this talk is open to all interested in attending.
Register for free: https://t.co/goX1Xs6sWK