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@Swimmingsolo1 @NoraTheBora Were you not paying attention?

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@TobinMairead @AdamsSandr4794 @rteliveline @rte @Education_Ire He was in his 👁

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@AdamsSandr4794 @rteliveline @rte @Education_Ire Well said Sandra! Why is RTE avoiding sensitive topics such as the right to safe spaces? This affects all women & girls. Not good enough @RTEOne @rteliveline @kierancud. Asking Sandra why Harold's Cross toilets hasn't been covered is moronic. Do better

[Estelle Birdy @BirdyBooky]

Look at this mother’s account of what’s being done to girls in Greystones Community College @GreystonesColl. This mother and her daughter need support.
This was never about just one school, @hcetss. This is about a pattern of humiliation of girls. If anyone in the individual schools or in @Education_Ire thought for a second that mixed sex toilets, exposed to all and sundry, with cameras and alarms, were a good idea, they’d surely be shouting it from the rooftops. They’d be proud of their work. They’d be announcing the change of plans to everyone and they’d be presenting the evidence of benefit. They wouldn’t be hiding the mixed sex plans until the very last minute, forcing it on parents and students and silencing dissent thereafter. @1Hildegarde @SimonHarrisTD

‘Now, a mother of a student at Greystones Community College has described her concerns about a similar situation at her school.
The Co. Wicklow woman, who wishes to remain anonymous, told the Mail yesterday that the 700-student school, which her daughter attends, moved into a new building in February and parents were only made aware the bathrooms would be mixed gender two weeks prior.
‘She was really upset when she heard all of this about the change and then saw the photographs. One of the reasons is just being intimidated by boys just standing in the same bathroom areas as them,’ she said.
‘The boys don’t have to do anything – it’s through no fault of their own – but you feel more vulnerable just by nature of being in a toilet setting so they were uncomfortable.
The Greystones mother said: ‘The other part that my daughter and her friends were upset about was sanitary products are available on display in front of the lads.
‘If they run out [of sanitary products] while on their periods, they have to take one in full view of whoever is there.

‘It happened to one of my daughter’s friends the other day, and she was crying when she got back to class because there was a group of guys around. Regardless of whether teenage boys are trying to be rude or insensitive, their presence alone can make self-conscious teenage girls uneasy.'
Her daughter is ‘terrified of being ostracised if she kicks up a fuss’, she said.
I’ve been in contact with the school over email and they say it’s perfectly safe in a toilet area [cubicle] that’s floor-to-ceiling. But it’s more than just going to the toilet. It’s about a safe space where there are other girls, not just a cubicle. You can’t get a moment to yourself all day where you aren’t being observed,’ she added.’ Thanks so much to the @irishdailymail and @JamieMcCarron5 for exposing what’s happening to girls in Irish schools.
https://t.co/7eqjtlVFMI

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@stellaomalley3 @cwestonclark What an insightful essay!

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@WomensSocIre @coccinellanovem @IrishTimes Shame on you @IrishTimes & Genevieve Carbery for writing a glowing article on Sidhbh Gallagher who has mutilated countless young girls. She should be locked up not feted by the Irish Times. So glad I cancelled my subscription

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@alleria_eh XY chromosomes =male. It's as simple as that

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@LeoVaradkar @aoifeh1916 @grok Time to let it go @LeoVaradkar. You could even be a decent human being & hold your hands up & admit you were in the wrong on this one. You know full well that he has xy chromosomes & should never have been boxing in the women's category

[IOC MEDIA @iocmedia]

The International Olympic Committee announces new Policy on the Protection of the Female (Women’s) Category in Olympic Sport.

Read: https://t.co/QcU5IVxyTi

[Mol @molanoige49]

@RobCarryBray @Dawson40M Totally agree with everything you said. @Mickcliff @irishexaminer v disappointed with this v personal hatchet job article. Profiling criminals is as old as the hills & provides v valuable information. Why not do it?

[Rob Carry @RobCarryBray]

Fine example of a journalistic hatchet job.

Digging into the TD's family background in an attempt to smear him personally is particularly loathsome.

Also, the author casually dismisses the well-documented link in international studies between migration and crime with a 'oh, that's disputed' and an 'out of context.'

Then he just... doesnt elaborate further. So we're just supposed to take his word for it?

The 'trust me bro' school of journalism.

Now, the organisers of the Women's event here in Ireland are just calling for the data to be recorded and published so policy here can be based on informed fact.

So why would a journalist be opposed to something like that? Why would he want this to remain hidden? Because he knows exactly what the figures would show up - and that just doesnt fit his cosy little world view.

Is it sexist to publish the gender of a criminal? Ageist to say how old they are? Classist to say they come from a working class area? Of course not - that's all fine. But ethnicity? Ah you can't do that now.

Its also worth keeping in mind that last year, the Irish Examiner and its partner paper the Irish Times was 'awarded' hundreds of thousands of euro in tax payers money - not through direct Government payments (which would be a tad obvious) but through various schemes and projects.

But the fact remains - the Government funnels money to these papers.

So readers should be aware when they read an article designed to take the legs out from under an opposition leader that the paper is being kept afloat by Government money.

@kenoflynnTD

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@laoisedebrun @TheCountessIE Interesting that the comments have been turned off. @IrishTimes @BerniceHarrison please do better. Irish people are entitled to decent journalism where both sides of an argument are looked at & discussed intelligently, not a hatchet job like this article

[Laoise de Brún | Barrister | Seanad Candidate @laoisedebrun]

Dear Irish Times

You didn’t ask me on but discussed me and my work in detail so let me assist on the question posed in your heading and a few other gaping holes.

1. I am the CEO of an organisation called @TheCountessIE. We incorporated a number of years ago. I am one of three directors.

2. We weren’t “involved in a failed Referendum” but this description from @IrishTimes is quite the tell. For us as grassroots leaders of a No/No campaign that spanned 30 locations over 7 weeks, this was a landslide victory. We view the 73.9% who voted to retain A41.2 as our constituency.

3. Our constituency do not want men in female spaces or services, prisons or shelters, sports or quotas. They know a man cannot be a woman and equality is predicated on certain accommodations like single sex spaces which provide safety, dignity and privacy for women and girls. They do not want their children indoctrinated into gender, or any other ideology at school. Far from being a twitter constituency as you describe, they are the majority.

4. Our advocacy stopped the Government removing the word woman from Maternity legislation.
Our advocacy stopped the rollout of mixed sex toilets in schools.
Our advocacy helped defeat the planned collapse of the gender ground and transposition of hate speech.

5. We have evolved to address the impact of immigration which like trans, is a sacred pillar of the new left that the electorate were not allowed to vote on. We observe how the media behaves the same way with regard to each of these issues.

6. We are alive to, and well versed in, the use of an ad hominem response because we dare challenge the narrative.

7. We know we represent the majority and will continue the work.

8. The work has been recognised globally. @TheCountessIE has addressed/briefed the UN alone three times, the EU parliament, Houses of Parliament, US Assistant AG among others.
9. Thank you for the ongoing coverage of the issue at hand which is the risk presented to women and children by the policy of housing unscreened male migrants en masse in residential areas.

Le meas,

Laoise de Brún BL

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@laoisedebrun @TheCountessIE Not what I would call journalism. @BerniceHarrison states that there is no evidence of a link between an increase in sexual violence& immigration. Maybe you are right but what figures are you basing this on? It's not racist to call on the Government to collate this- naive not to

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@sjholmesirl @AislingAon @IrishTimes The @IrishTimes is failing mná na hÉireann. Their reporters have their collective heads in the sand & refuse to report on anything gender critical. This is not journalism & is why myself & my husband have cancelled our IT subscription

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@Berlinnaeus This is a tone deaf tweet @Berlinnaeus. Women in Afghanistan are denied an education & many, many other rights that we women in Ireland enjoy.

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@DailyMail Very disappointing @ESBNetworks to show such blatant disregard for women's safe spaces. It is always women who are forced to accommodate biological men in their spaces. How about prioritising women's rights?

[Sarah Holmes @sjholmesirl]

I’m glad this story is finally coming out. @ESBNetworks allows men to use the women’s showers, women objected to the policy (which @ibec_irl helped produce) asking for privacy and dignity in the workplace

esb is a sexist employer who doesn’t believe women deserve boundaries

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@sjholmesirl @ESBNetworks @ibec_irl This is shocking @ESBNetworks @sjholmesirl @ibec_irl @MichealMartinTD
#repealthegra This is the outcome for 51% of the population. Shame on the ESB

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@laoisedebrun @EmployRightsIE Fantastic article from Brenda Power. We need data not poor journalism implying that people like Laoise de Brún are racist for asking v logical questions