Grace Keevans

Wife, Mother of 4 and one adorable 🐶. School Secretary

[Grace Keevans @GraceKeevans]

Thanks everyone 4 your support - hugely appreciated! On a personal note thanks for the phenomenal support from @Forsaschoolsecs & to those on Picket line with me- Up to now I would always have said I am NOT a Union Person but this has shown me - Power to the People!!!👏👏👏

[Grace Keevans @GraceKeevans]

@naasparish @BishopDNulty Beautiful ceremony! And of course also assisted by School Chaplain Fr Yohan Fernando.

[Fórsa School Secretaries @Forsaschoolsecs]

https://t.co/1rD94XfST7

And we go again.
#pensionpensionpension

[Grace Keevans @GraceKeevans]

@MichealMartinTD @Forsaschoolsecs @SimonHarrisTD And yet talks break down in WRC re Pension Parity 4 School Secretaries/ Caretakers because YOUR govt doesn’t see our worth! U saw Schools can’t function without us -we ended our strike on the promise of meaningful negotiations with DES! Shame on U!

[Grace Keevans @GraceKeevans]

@BishopDNulty @CarlowCathedral @JP2Award @KandLeYouth @KANDLEi @naasparish

[Bishop Denis Nulty @BishopDNulty]

As always a very powerful evening in @CarlowCathedral for the Annual @JP2Award for @KandLeYouth as 33 were awarded with Papal Crosses, 174 received Gold Medals, 16 received Silver Medals and 13 received Bronze Medals - so proud of all these young people @KANDLEi

[Grace Keevans @GraceKeevans]

@BishopDNulty @KANDLEi Lovely gentleman! He will be missed very much in Naas! God rest him now!🙏

[Grace Keevans @GraceKeevans]

@kcallinan50 @Forsaschoolsecs Likewise Kevin! Campaign was on one level mentally & physically exhausting and yet energising too! Please God negotiations will go well - we may have won the battle but the war continues 🤔Will leave that to Andy & Shane!!

[Grace Keevans @GraceKeevans]

Thanks everyone 4 your support - hugely appreciated! On a personal note thanks for the phenomenal support from @Forsaschoolsecs & to those on Picket line with me- Up to now I would always have said I am NOT a Union Person but this has shown me - Power to the People!!!👏👏👏

[Grace Keevans @GraceKeevans]

@Gina_inTipp @Forsaschoolsecs @apike1 Thanks Gina! I have a whole series of photos from Day 1 to Day 7 - A catalogue of events - I’ll have to make a little booklet of them as a back up to Reeling in the Years! 😜 Historic alright!

[Kevin Callinan @kcallinan50]

Listening to @HMcEntee on @RTENewsAtOne and her statement that everything including pension parity would be on the table in a talks process, it would be useful for some direct contact with @forsa_union_ie to see if there's a sufficient basis to suspend the strike pending talks.

[Grace Keevans @GraceKeevans]

Fantastic to have Phil Ní Sheaghdha General Secretary of INMO on the Picket Line with us today in Newbridge! #pensionparity
@Forsaschoolsecs @forsa_union_ie
@HMcEntee @jackfchambers
@kcallinan50

United we stand AND there is strength in our numbers!

[Grace Keevans @GraceKeevans]

@Forsaschoolsecs and @Forsacaretakers in Newbridge - Outside Martin Heydon’s Office and he has just arrived!!

Tell “HIM” Martin, Tell Jack, we’re not going back!!!
#pensionparity

[Grace Keevans @GraceKeevans]

Day 6 - Supported again by our colleagues in Holy Child School Naas & later we joined Hilary & John at Mercy Convent. The more we continue, the more determined we are!!
@Forsaschoolsecs
@HMcEntee and Jack Chambers - NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF A SCHOOL SECRETARY/CARETAKER

[Grace Keevans @GraceKeevans]

@Forsaschoolsecs @forsa_union_ie @HMcEntee

Fórsa School Secretaries Branch Fórsa School Caretakers #pensionparity

Day 5 and a brief interlude before the rain started again! Grateful as ever for the support of colleagues and parents!

[Bishop Paul Dempsey @Bishop_Dempsey]

Looking forward to a wonderful occasion next Sunday in City Quay church @dublindiocese All are welcome to come along. The relics of St. Carlo will be available after 11.30am Mass until 6pm, a great opportunity for quiet prayer! @theway_ie @CatholicBishops @IrishCathNews

[Noreen O Callaghan née Cahill @nobbynoreen]

#Day 5 #pensionparity No Engagement...

[Dr. Lhara Mullins @LharaMullins]

Noreen (in hi vis) is an amazing secretary, the person who answers my frequent emails with patience & kindness & is a consistent go to person for my SEN children at school. We'd be lost without her!

Noreen deserves the same entitlements as other school staff 🙌

#pensionparity

[Griffeen Valley ETNS @GriffeenVETNS]

Our Student Union out at the school gates this morning supporting Fórsa strike action. We hope this will resolved soon.@forsa_union_ie

[Grace Keevans @GraceKeevans]

@MichealMartinTD A very worthy cause for you to support. BUT whilst we picket for #pensionparity and wait for @HMcEntee & Jack Chambers to engage with our Forsa Union, there he is out having Coffee with you!! Here we are Day 5 standing in the rain! ☔️ @Forsaschoolsecs

[Grace Keevans @GraceKeevans]

Here we go again! Day 5
A day to showcase my wellies! Thankful our supporters are not just “Fairweather” Supporters!
Can you see us @HMcEntee We are waiting for you and your Department to intervene!! @Forsaschoolsecs @forsa_union_ie