Amanda Ní Ghabhann

Sport, Life, Adventure and Equity! Safeguarding and Ethics at Special Olympics. All views are my own 🤓

MA Cultural Innovations
PhD Sports Development

[Amanda Ní Ghabhann @Danigh_a]

Panel 3: Sports, Leisure and Recreation #NDAConference2024 #UNCRPD #Article

Stephanie McSweeney @AD_Ireland
Sarah Kerrigan - Able Active/Surpass Sport Systems
David McKay @IrishRugby
Laurence Colleran - South Dublin CC
Louise Burke @sportireland

[Amanda Ní Ghabhann @Danigh_a]

Panel 2: Arts &Creativity
#NDAConference2024 Interesting look at accessibility in the Arts and barriers .

Pádraig Naughton @ADIarts

Petal Pilley & Kieran Coppinger
Blue Teapot Theatre Company
“Nothing added but time”

Emily Conway @DADACampaign
Peter Kearns @ILMIreland

[Amanda Ní Ghabhann @Danigh_a]

Panel 1: International and Regional Perspectives #NDAConference2024

Jason Smyth - Paralympics Ireland
Prod Delia Ferri - Maynooth University
Ivor Ambrose - European Network for Accessible Tourism

#UNCRPD #NothingWithoutUs #Article30

[Amanda Ní Ghabhann @Danigh_a]

Delighted to attend the @NDAIreland conference today on behalf of @SOIreland

#NDAConference2024 #UNCRPD #Article30

[Amanda Ní Ghabhann @Danigh_a]

Günter Younger, Intelligence + Investigations, @wada_ama Advocating for more I+I in #antidoping.
Cheaters are getting better

4 Pillars
1. Education
2. Testing
3. Intelligence + Investigation
4. Partnerships with law enforcement

Overall objective is to catch more dopers

[Amanda Ní Ghabhann @Danigh_a]

Attended the @sportireland 2023 Anti-Doping report launch

@UnaMaySport reinforcing the message of a values based approach to decision making in sport through #AntiDoping education. #Trust #integrity

Great to see ISL Interpreters at the event also.

#CleanGreenAthlete

[Amanda Ní Ghabhann @Danigh_a]

Outrageously naive to say it will have no impact.

On who? What about the Irish players?

Would not boycotting destroy the sport?

There is a choice!
No one said doing the right thing is easy.

#FreePalastine @Sport4Palestine @BballIrl #SportsEthics #ItsMuchMoreThanAGesture

[Amanda Ní Ghabhann @Danigh_a]

How are we putting our athletes in this position @BballIrl 😒

[Irish Sport for Palestine @Sport4Palestine]

Israeli gun show proof that Ireland should boycott basketball match: https://t.co/t0h1GGw1cE

“We know from South Africa in the 1980s that a sporting boycott contributed significantly to the ending of apartheid.

“We know that it's not always all about money - as Basketball Ireland John Feehan argued - that doing the right thing matters too.” - Kieran Cunningham (@KCsixtyseven)

@BballIrl

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"More Palestinian will become WCNSF, 'Wounded Child, No Surviving Family', the terrible new acronym borne out of Israels genocidal assault on the Palestinian population in Gaza"

Blinne Ni Ghralaigh at the ICJ in the Hague

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Blinne Ni Ghralaigh at the ICJ in the Hague on the scale & extent of the slaughter in Gaza each day....

[Amanda Ní Ghabhann @Danigh_a]

Powerful advocacy Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh
"There is no safe place in Gaza, the world should be ashamed"

"The first genocide in history where victims are broadcasting their own destruction in real time"

"Look in the mirror + ask,where was I when Gaza was going through a Genocide"

[Amanda Ní Ghabhann @Danigh_a]

The #IntenationalCourtOfJustice is currently hearing #SouthAfrica 's case against #Israel under the #GenocideConvention

People who suffered under #Apartheid now defending #Palestine as lawyers against a country with whom they have strong trade relations
#CEASEFIRE_NOW

[President of Ireland @PresidentIRL]

Statement by President Higgins on ongoing violence in the Middle East https://t.co/FaQgXaJJpY

[Amanda Ní Ghabhann @Danigh_a]

Thanks @sportireland for a really interesting Safeguarding Conference. Looking forward to implementing new initiatives with @SOIreland soon.

#PositiveParentProgrammes #SafeguardingInSport #YouthVoices #ArhleteVoices

[Amanda Ní Ghabhann @Danigh_a]

❤

[RTÉ News @rtenews]

Students at Monkstown Park Junior School in Dublin had a special homework assignment this week as they learned to sign the rugby anthem, Ireland’s Call, in Irish Sign Language ahead of Ireland's game against South Africa in the Rugby World Cup

#ISLAwarenessWeek #IWDP

[Safeguarding Ireland @safeguardingire]

Assisted decision-making – @safeguardingire today launched a two week public awareness campaign on awareness and understanding of the Assisted Decision-making Capacity Act.

Read the news release here: https://t.co/NC3l5drkSE

[Amanda Ní Ghabhann @Danigh_a]

Great to have the opportunity to explore #Safeguarding initiatives with other @soeuropeeurasia national programmes in lovely Tallinn, funded by @EUErasmusPlus #SOOS #OperationSafeguard #DiscussionBasedLearning #PeerEducation #SafeguardingInSport #SpecialOlympics

[Amanda Ní Ghabhann @Danigh_a]

Talented, imperfect, admired, remembered !! ❤
#ChristyDignam #ArDheisDeGoRaibhAAnam #CherishedMemories

[Samantha Libreri @SamanthaLibreri]

Thousands of Aslan fans sing This Is as Christy Dignams family pause to watch a video tribute to him in Finglas as part of his funeral procession @rtenews

[Amanda Ní Ghabhann @Danigh_a]

Came across this Communications Board in #MarlayPark recently. Well done @dlrcc More of this please 😀

#InclusionMatters #CommunicationsBoard #FógraCumarsáide #Accessibility #AccessibleContent

[Amanda Ní Ghabhann @Danigh_a]

... and they certainly don't do it to gain competitive advantage in local sports . 👇

[John Amaechi OBE @JohnAmaechi]

2. Trans Women do NOT go through years of therapy, gender-affirming medical care and public scrutiny to get a peek at boobs in a women’s locker room… nor, I suspect, to win a medal in the pool.