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This is 79-year-old Robert Thompson from Bray. Robert is completely blind, but until recently, he has managed to live a highly independent life with the help of his brilliant guide dog, Rhona.
But right now, Wicklow County Council is failing him, and the entire visually impaired community.
For years, the audible signals at pedestrian crossings across Bray have been faulty. Recently, things have gone from bad to worse. The critical audio signals that tell Robert where the crossing pole is (the "wait" sound) and when it is actually safe to cross (the "go" sound) have stopped working entirely on busy routes near his home.
"There’s no way I would cross that road without the sound," Robert says. "It’s just too dangerous."
To make matters worse, recent changes to the local Dublin bus network (replacing the old 145 route with the E1 spine) mean his usual handy bus stops are gone. Because the council has left the nearby pedestrian signals broken, Robert can no longer cross the street safely at his local stop.
Robert is now forced to get off the bus early and walk a massive, grueling 1.5 kilometers EACH WAY along a highly dangerous, busy stretch of road just to find a single working crossing.
Robert has contacted Wicklow County Council repeatedly. They have acknowledged his complaints, but they have met him with absolute silence regarding any actual repairs.
Basic mobility and safety should be a right, not a luxury. By ignoring these broken signals for years, the council is effectively trapping vulnerable residents in their own towns and actively stripping away their independence.
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I no longer offer voting recommendations. But I would make the serious point that a Binface victory in Clacton would be a major setback for the racist right in Britain.
You read this again and again and your brain melts because how is it that a man who is so clearly innocent, so incredibly courageous, so obviously a hero against the most evil villains, abandoned by the world to his torturers.
A piece of sewer pipe found in the street has been acting as a prosthetic leg for 10-year-old Rateb since he lost the limb in an Israeli strike.
Rateb, a 10-year-old from Gaza, lost his leg, his mother and his brother during Israeli bombardment.
Today, I took my children, Imad and Adam, along with my sister’s children—Elaine, Maher, and Ahmed—to the sea in Gaza. 🌊❤️
For a few hours, we forgot the heat inside the tent. We forgot the sounds of war and let the children laugh the way every child deserves to laugh.
I swam with them, looked at their smiling faces, and prayed that one day they would have a normal childhood—without fear, displacement, or war.
We may not be able to change our reality today, but we are trying to create beautiful memories for our children in the midst of all this pain.
These small moments are what give us the strength to keep going. 💙🍉
young footballers still finding ways to train in Gaza: a boy who survived a bombing that killed his entire family, and a son whose father was killed while getting food for his family.
Today, Andrew Marr asked Jeremy Corbyn how he felt about Keir Starmer saying the Labour Party was “morally bankrupt” when he took over the leadership.
It was good to hear Jeremy set the record straight, as Starmer’s remark was massively insulting to many thousands of people.
Abbey centre in north Belfast charged my wee granddaughters charity £60 to do a bucket collection last Saturday. No other shopping centre asked for a penny. PURE GREED SHAME ON THEM🤬
I don’t want to hear any bullshit about “legitimate concerns” and “working class revolt”
It’s working-class Black and brown people being pushed out of their homes. This is racist violence and intimidation. Don’t dress it up as anything else.
I'm just trying to understand when does the organised violence against & terrorising of working class black & brown people get a Cobra meeting ? Or are we all supposed to be Far Right now & indulge their expression of ' legitimate concerns ' ?
Patricia McKeown, @unisontheunion's regional secretary in Northern Ireland: "What started on Tuesday night was a racist pogrom deliberately orchestrated.. and there is no excuse for this" 🎯