Debra kearns

Cabra Alcohol and Drugs Service Project Worker
Participant Development Officer St Helena's Finglas South .❤💚

[Debra kearns @Debrakearns40]

My nephew is missing since Monday 😢 any help please contact us. He left for work on Monday morning in Sallynoggin heading to work in Super valu Dalkey

[Debra kearns @Debrakearns40]

@CrokePark @DubGAAOfficial @Kerry_Official Lots of problems with entrance to game today . Physical tickets not been recognised at turnstiles. We had 6 and didn't get in for 20 mins 😤 seen lots of people not getting in . A couple beside us got in at 5 mins to half time . Disgraceful after paying €60 each .

[Debra kearns @Debrakearns40]

@nicksortor Disgusting calling addicts "junkies"

[Debra kearns @Debrakearns40]

@nikkihayes Sent you a message Nikki yesterday ❤️

[Debra kearns @Debrakearns40]

@nikkihayes Exactly 100% ❤️

[Debra kearns @Debrakearns40]

@nikkihayes I am very proud 👏 of your recovery journey, Nikki and all the great advocacy work you are doing . Sharing your story with the most vulnerable women I'm glad I got to share that space with you at CADS ❤️ and the difference you made to our Women's Group
You are inspirational

[Debra kearns @Debrakearns40]

@Independent_ie My 91 year old mother received a letter today. She is up the walls . Her pension is under review. She reared 7 children.
Thinks about her heating bills all the time . First question on the form Are you employed ???
Do you own a farm ??
Do you own your home ???
I'm livid

[Debra kearns @Debrakearns40]

@Matt_Pinner All 20

[Ruhama @RuhamaAgency]

"Because the truth is they buy us when we're sick, they buy us when we're weeping, they buy us when we're disconnected, stoned, intoxicated, they buy us when we can't even understand the language they're speaking or have no sense of where we are, they buy us when we have visible bruises, cuts, marks, scars, infections, even when we bleed they will continue. They buy us when we are pregnant, they impregnate us without a second thought of the consequences for us or our bodies nor the children that are born because of their illegal purchase. The consequences of their actions are profound and long-lasting."

Survivor input from @ruhamaagency's Training Lead Mia de Faoite at today's international conference: Technology - Friend or Foe? An International Conversation on Combatting Pornography, Sexual Violence and Sexual Exploitation

#ruhamainternationalconference

[Debra kearns @Debrakearns40]

@Pontifex God bless you 🙌 🙏 ❤️ happy birthday Pope Leo

[Ruhama @RuhamaAgency]

Huge Congratulations to the most recent group of service users who completed Ruhama’s Seeking Safety Programme last week🌟

This programme is specifically designed to support women affected by both mental health and substance use issues and focuses specially on individuals experiencing domestic, sexual, and gender-based violence.

Ruhama is so delighted to share a big milestone with this group of service users who put the work in and were all presented with Certificates marking their achievement💜

[Samaritans @samaritans]

1 week to go.

Samaritans Awareness Day is on 24 July because we’re here to listen 24/7.

Join us on the day and help us spread the word that there’s always someone here to listen on 116 123.

[Debra kearns @Debrakearns40]

@minnyshell @JoannaDonnellyL Targer a woman or girl your mam told you yo stay away from . A sleeveen is a 2 faced person who is nice to your face and talks behind your back or blindsides you .I Know lots of both of them

[Ruhama @RuhamaAgency]

Our Caseworker Alice and Seeking Safety Project Worker Debbie yesterday visited BRACE - Ballymun Recovery Addiction Community Education to deliver a workshop on sexual exploitation to staff.

We really appreciate these opportunities to engage with the wider community, share about Ruhama's work and increase awareness around sexual exploitation.

#workshop #sexualexploitation #Ruhama

[Catholic Arena @CatholicArena]

The Cock and the Pot

One of the most powerful symbols of the Catholic faith in Ireland is the Penal Cross and it had a special connection to the story of the Resurrection

While certain subversive voices will craft their own hysterical tales of Catholic history on this island, the actual history can be felt in the dead of night listening to the waves crash on Skellig Michael, it can be tasted in the dry toast and salt and pepper water in Lough Derg and it can be found in the lonely and remote Mass rocks where our ancestors sought the sacraments at risk of death, imprisonment or even of slavery

It can also be found, as can the simple beauty of our faith, in the witness given by the Penal Cross

From the 1600s to the 1800s, the Penal Laws criminalised the Catholic faith, leading to priests being hunted down and hanged, worshippers being killed and enslaved and Catholics in general being barred from participating meaningfully in public life. They could not build churches or be educated. The persecution of the Catholic faith and the sufferings of the Irish people are intertwined inextricably and anyone who says otherwise is not being honest or is misinformed.

The Penal Cross was a cross that would be wrapped around the faithful’s wrist so that they could pray covertly.

If we are to take one high quality one that remains in existence today, there is the Penal Cross that is currently residing in the National Museum after being donated from Galway. This Cross reveals the typical nature of these crosses.

It contains a crude drawing of Our Lord, the inscriptions of IHS and INRI and also a crude and humorous carving at the bottom of a bird above a pot and the carving of lashes.

The story goes that Judas got home after betraying Jesus and asked his wife for a rope so that he may hang himself, as he knew that Jesus was to return from the dead on the third day.

His wife, dismissing this, drew his attention to the cock that she was cooking in a pot. She told Judas that Jesus had as much chance of returning from the dead as the cock had of coming back to life from the pot that she was cooking him in.

No sooner had she spoken the words than the cock flew out of the pot and crowed, sending Judas into despair.

There are other variations of this story but the core is the same, the cock was representative, to a primarily rural and peasant people, of the simplicity and majesty of Christ’s resurrection from the dead. There is a touch of humour about it and a touch of defiance, for a people who faced death, slavery and imprisonment for practising their faith, there was a real sense of the thrill of perseverance in this story.

Take a trip to any of the remains of old Irish monasteries, at Mellifont at Bective and elsewhere, and see the remains of a church that was gutted. Take a trip to the head of Saint Oliver Plunkett. Take a trip to the cathedrals like Christchurch.

In those places you will see a church that was dead, a faith cooking in the pot. Much like our church today you could say.

Then take a journey to any town centre in Ireland today and see the churches, the statues of Our Lady, the streets, schools and GAA clubs named after priests, nuns and saints,including the third biggest stadium in Europe, Croke Park, which is named after a Catholic Archbishop. And there you will see a church that like Our Lord, found its way out of the grave.

The church in Ireland today feels much like the stone is being rolled in front of our tomb once more, but we would be as naive as the wife of Judas if we were to think that we will not fly out of the pot as Christ exited the tomb on that timeless Sunday morning.

[Ruhama @RuhamaAgency]

A successful information morning with Debbie our Seeking Safety Project Worker and Alice our Caseworker discussing the understanding of sexual exploitation and its harms.

We are creating safe spaces for women to share life experiences.

#safespaces

[Debra kearns @Debrakearns40]

It was a very special evening last night. Celebrating the 20th anniversary of FAST Finglas. I am so lucky and blessed 🙌 to be part of this journey surrounded by such dedicated 💖 powerful people.

#FASTFinglas

#buildingrecoverycommunities

[Debra kearns @Debrakearns40]

@conor_pope Deodorant especially Dove . Washing powder and liquids scandalous price and bottles are smaller . Olive oil, butter and Nutella . Chicken especially organic . Mine same shop is about €60 -€70 a week dearer

[Ballymun Kickhams GAC❤️💚 @BallymunGAA]

🏆 Huge congratulations to our clubmates Davey Byrne, Kristoph Juszczak, Brian O’Leary, Dave Power along & former clubmate Tomas Hayes and former GPO Gerry Seaver for their fantastic achievement as part of the DCU GAA management team that led the squad to Sigerson Cup glory! 🎉👏