I used to think injuries were the end of the world.
Now I know even in the hardest moments, life presents opportunities.
MND is unimaginably difficult, but it’s also given me unexpected gifts.
I’ve met incredible people, felt overwhelming support from friends and strangers, and together with Gloucester Rugby & the GR Foundation, built @4edfundraising to help others living with MND.
Most importantly, I get to spend almost every day with my wife and kids—seeing them off to school, welcoming them home, sharing precious time.
Is it ideal? No. I can’t wrap my arms around them, ride bikes, drive to clubs, or play in the garden.
But being here, present in their lives, is an opportunity and privilege I’ll never take for granted.
Keep looking for those opportunities. 👌❤️
"It is a famine. The Gaza Famine.
It is a famine that we could have prevented, if we had been allowed. Yet food stacks up at borders because of systematic obstruction by Israel.
Everyone owns this. The #GazaFamine is the world’s famine."
- @UNReliefChief
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
The absolute incapacity of Western leaders to enforce intl law when it comes to Israel is EPIC.
Ministers, Prime Ministers, Presidents of Republic:
Doing NOTHING, diverting attention, sanctioning individual ministers IS NOT enforcing the intl law that was developed after the Holocaust and WWII to prevent another Holocaust and WWII.
At this critical point,
Your states have a CLEAR obligation to:
1. Sanction Israel
2. Impose a total arms embargo (no buy, no sell, no transfer, direct or indirect)
3. Break the siege (send navies instead of dropping food on the head of starving genocide survivors)
4. Suspend all trade agreements with Israel till the end of the genocide, occupation and apartheid.
5. Investigate and prosecute individuals and orgs that have committed crimes in the oPt.
Together we can, and we will.
A giant of a man taken far too soon.
Our beloved colleague and friend, Dave Fagan, has passed away after a short illness.
Rest easy Dave.
All our thoughts are with Pam, Shauna, Ciarán, Eoin and all his family.
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#RIP
Everyone at Irish Rugby is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Dave Fagan after a short illness.
To his family and his wide circle of friends, we offer our condolences on his passing.
May he rest in peace.