Roisin McDonald

Views and endorsements are my own and do not represent the views of my employer

[Deirdre Heenan @deirdreheenan]

Seriously: Another review?

Our health & social care system is slowly dying under the weight of expert reviews

Hayes Review 2001
Appleby Reviews 2005, 2011
Compton Review 2011
Donaldson Review 2014
Bengoa Review 2016

The economic, social human cost of inaction is egregious.

[Roisin McDonald @roisinm10]

@MartinSLewis I got a call from my parents on Monday evening looking me to come round to help them deposit £100 each to some account because you @MartinSLewis and the @bankofengland governor said so. Apparently was going to make them loads of money and it was on Facebook. I didn't do it obs

[Business Services Organisation @BSO_NI]

Calling all graduates!

@BSO_NI is excited to be attending this year’s Northern Ireland Graduate Recruitment Fair at the @UlsterUni Belfast Campus.

Join us tomorrow, Tuesday 2 June, 11 am - 3 pm to learn more about opportunities within BSO

#BSO #Graduates #Recruitment #UU #QUB

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

Genocidal, apartheid psychopaths.
Supported, armed and cheered on by the West. Utterly shameful. The Hague will be busy…….. If we have an ounce of moral backbone.

[Business Services Organisation @BSO_NI]

@BSO_NI marked the #retirement of Myles O’Hagan, who concluded an exceptional career as Divisional Head of Procurement within BSO #PaLS. This comes after an incredible 39 years of service to #HSC

Congratulations, Myles – your legacy will continue to inspire.

#MakingADifference

[HCSA @HCSAprocurement]

Congrats 🍾

[Business Services Organisation @BSO_NI]

Well done to Lauren Moore at the @HCSAprocurement Annual Awards this evening. Lauren was the Unsung Hero Winner

[KRW Law Human Rights @KRWLaw]

The Presiding Coroner requests any information about:

- Why Noah left home that night;
- Where he went;
- Whether he met anyone;
- What happened his flip-flops and/or his headphones;
- Noah having been out in the early hours of the morning on any other
occasion

☎️ 0300 200 7811

[Yipeng Ge 葛义朋 @yipengGe]

I woke up this morning to see a video of a healthcare worker colleague in Gaza be shot in the head while working in the hospital. Shot in the head by the Israeli military. While working in the hospital. Israel continues to target healthcare workers with impunity. Fuck this world.

[Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones]

ITV pulling zero punches in this incredible footage - "This landscape of destruction looks otherworldy, but it's not, it's this world - What is happening may come to define one of its darkest eras, one that casts a stain on humanity, which will endure for generations" #Gaza

[Roisin McDonald @roisinm10]

@BSO_NI Well deserved Kieran! Very proud of you 👏

[NI Blood Transfusion @GiveBloodNI]

Come join us & many other #blooddonors giving blood in #Lisburn next Wednesday & Thursday. 📅 Your 1 blood donation can save 3 lives right here in #NorthernIreland! 👏

👉 Secure your spot as seats are going fast, book today - https://t.co/tlVCbYnPE2 🩸❤️

#GiveBlood #SaveLifes

[Business Services Organisation @BSO_NI]

@BSO_NI are recruiting for a Procurement Team Leader (Sourcing), Band 5

For more information and to apply:
https://t.co/lqoQmbbClF

#BSO #MakingADifference #hsc #hscjobs #PaLS #TeamLeader #LDerry #NIjobs

[Mark Simpson @BBCMarkSimpson]

Last-minute winning try for @RandalstownRFC against @CIYMS_RFC in Q1/Q2 play-off. 🏉

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

You’ve asked me several questions on this thread and accused me of avoiding answering, so here goes.

I believe a woman is a human being who belongs to the sex class that produces large gametes. It’s irrelevant whether or not her gametes have ever been fertilised, whether or not she’s carried a baby to term, irrelevant if she was born with a rare difference of sexual development that makes neither of the above possible, or if she’s aged beyond being able to produce viable eggs. She is a woman and just as much a woman as the others.

I don’t believe a woman is more or less of a woman for having sex with men, women, both or not wanting sex at all. I don’t think a woman is more or less of a woman for having a buzz cut and liking suits and ties, or wearing stilettos and mini dresses, for being black, white or brown, for being six feet tall or a little person, for being kind or cruel, angry or sad, loud or retiring. She isn't more of a woman for featuring in Playboy or being a surrendered wife, nor less of a woman for designing space rockets or taking up boxing. What makes her a woman is the fact of being born in a body that, assuming nothing has gone wrong in her physical development (which, as stated above, still doesn't stop her being a woman), is geared towards producing eggs as opposed to sperm, towards bearing as opposed to begetting children, and irrespective of whether she's done either of those things, or ever wants to.

Womanhood isn't a mystical state of being, nor is it measured by how well one apes sex stereotypes. We are not the creatures either porn or the Bible tell you we are. Femaleness is not, as trans woman Andrea Chu Long wrote, ‘an open mouth, an expectant asshole, blank, blank eyes,’ nor are we God’s afterthought, sprung from Adam’s rib.

Women are provably subject to certain experiences because of our female bodies, including different forms of oppression, depending on the cultures in which we live. When trans activists say 'I thought you didn't want to be defined by your biology,' it’s a feeble and transparent attempt at linguistic sleight of hand. Women don't want to be limited, exploited, punished, or subject to other unjust treatment because of their biology, but our being female is indeed defined by our biology. It's one material fact about us, like having freckles or disliking beetroot, neither of which are representative of our entire beings, either. Women have billions of different personalities and life stories, which have nothing to do with our bodies, although we are likely to have had experiences men don't and can't, because we belong to our sex class.

Some people feel strongly that they should have been, or wish to be seen as, the sex class into which they weren't born. Gender dysphoria is a real and very painful condition and I feel nothing but sympathy for anyone who suffers from it. I want them to be free to dress and present themselves however they like and I want them to have exactly the same rights as every other citizen regarding housing, employment and personal safety. I do not, however, believe that surgeries and cross-sex hormones literally turn a person into the opposite sex, nor do I believe in the idea that each of us has a nebulous ‘gender identity’ that may or might not match our sexed bodies. I believe the ideology that preaches those tenets has caused, and continues to cause, very real harm to vulnerable people.

I am strongly against women's and girls' rights and protections being dismantled to accommodate trans-identified men, for the very simple reason that no study has ever demonstrated that trans-identified men don't have exactly the same pattern of criminality as other men, and because, however they identify, men retain their advantages of speed and strength. In other words, I think the safety and rights of girls and women are more important than those men's desire for validation.

I sincerely hope that answers your questions. You may still disagree, but as I hope this shows, I’m more than happy to have this debate.

[Randalstown RFC @RandalstownRFC]

Saturday is a big one!

Our 1st XV travel to CIYMS for a Q1/Q2 playoff

We won’t know if the result matters for a few weeks, depending on AIL results, but a win might secure promotion to Q1!

Let’s gets lots of red and white on the sidelines in Belfast on Saturday 🔴⚪️🔴

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Totally agree. I have been DELIBERATELY DEFIANT, in spite of some random bloke’s advice. A full investigation MUST be mounted.

#ArrestMe

Also, visit Scotland, land of the free!

[Randalstown RFC @RandalstownRFC]

Randalstown RFC are delighted to be hosting an 8 week Give It A Try programme in association with Canterbury Rugby and the IRFU

This is aimed at girls aged 8-14, with no rugby experience necessary

The programme begins Thursday 25th April

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[Irish Rugby @IrishRugby]

We need everyone tomorrow! 💚

#TeamOfUs

[Michelle O’Neill @moneillsf]

Today the DUP has again blocked the return of an Assembly.

The only remaining explanation for the DUP boycott is a refusal to accept a nationalist First Minister.

The DUP boycott is denying workers a fair pay rise and starving public services of investment.

I will continue to work for all our people and communities as a First Minister for All.