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Joanne O’ Riordan @joanneor.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

As the incoming government gets set to take office on Wednesday, activist Joanne O'Riordan has urged "action" on disabilities and says the "time for political promises and lip service is long past". www.rte.ie/news/primeti...

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Joanne O'Riordan: 'Time for talk is over, we need reforms now'

As the incoming government gets set to take office on Wednesday, activist Joanne O'Riordan has urged "action" on disabilities and says the "time for political promises and lip service is long past".

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👻 Dead Chachra 💀 @debcha.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

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Joanne O’ Riordan @joanneor.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Always an honour to judge the RTÉ Sport Awards and very grateful for the opportunity. A very, very tough year I wouldn’t wish on my own enemy to judge. Goujons and no gladrags for this year for me!

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Joanne O’ Riordan @joanneor.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Writing was on the wall a little bit with Gleeson’s FAI contract. I always felt they should’ve chased Pia Sundhage before she joined Switzerland. Casey Stoney available too 👀 YOLO, FAI!

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Joanne O’ Riordan @joanneor.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Garrett shushing the crowd and then watching Toney instantly screw up the punt was far too funny

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Joanne O’ Riordan @joanneor.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I accidentally got Beyblades banned from my school because I encouraged my pals to use my tray as the arena. Got a lovely scar under my eye! #LateLateToyShow

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Joanne O’ Riordan @joanneor.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Crying at the bffs, crying at the astronauts. When the late late toy show is simple it’s at its best #LateLateToyShow

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Joanne O’ Riordan @joanneor.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Oh no I’m so old I don’t recognise the celebrities on #RTELateLateToyShow

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Joanne O’ Riordan @joanneor.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

And the fact the immediate concern is seeing the momentum of support slide if they don’t qualify for major tournaments irks me and highlights the mad inequalities between men and women’s sports. This should be a wake up call to establish an u20s team and start bridging the gaps

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Joanne O’ Riordan @joanneor.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Post mortem later but what this team have done to promote women’s sports is exceptional. The fact we have two sporting icons called Katie who have pushed the boundaries. It was not to be tonight and there will be massive regrets naturally. Kudos to Wales, just more clinical on the night

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Joanne O’ Riordan @joanneor.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Absolutely loving the energy from Ireland tonight

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Joanne O’ Riordan @joanneor.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Just know I’m there in spirit screaming IRELAND and having a meltdown

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Joanne O’ Riordan @joanneor.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Not to be dramatic or anything but it literally is now or never for the Irish WNT tonight against Wales. Gotta balance the conservatism with some serious potent attacks. Literally praying for the right result!

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Aliza Adi (she/her) @alizaadi.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Barbra Banda has become the target of racists, misogynists, and transphobes after *false* reports she failed gender eligibility tests Women like Emma Hayes have had enough and are pushing back against hateful comments from the likes of JK Rowling and Mara Yamauchi www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...

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Joanne O’ Riordan @joanneor.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

It’s still bizarre to me that FF are emphatically rejecting SF as their coalition choice

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Joanne O’ Riordan @joanneor.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Pickens tried to sell that penalty too hard and just fell down. But why would Russell throw that? What did I just see? #steelers

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Joanne O’ Riordan @joanneor.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

When the HSE wouldn’t let me leave Crumlin’s children’s hospital as there wasn’t adequate support in our local community, it was a batch of parents/people around Crumlin who donated supplies to get me home to Millstreet. It was a teachable moment I’ll never forget. Despite having nothing they all

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Joanne O’ Riordan @joanneor.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Isn’t it that kinda snobby, dismissive “we’re above them” attitude from Jennifer Carroll MacNeill that enabled people like Gerry Hutch to get a nice stranglehold over those who were neglected by government? I’m not a Hutch apologist for that matter #GE24

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Joanne O’ Riordan @joanneor.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I’d run in an election solely to see how they’d cope with throwing the limbless gal in the air. My siblings would line up to fling me into the abyss

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Richard Deitsch @richarddeitsch.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

There is very little difference between US cable news and the embrace debate ethos on sports TV. Producers set up the conflict with the talent booking. Everyone gets their takes in. You try to “win” the arguement. It’s all monetized. And the public gets fucked over because we all get dumber.

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Joanne O’ Riordan @joanneor.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Genuinely wondering if disability was a topic on any of the surveys/exit polls or was it lumped in with healthcare (which is shameful!). Maybe it’s individualistic of me but thought it cropped up more frequently than last votes.

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Joanne O’ Riordan @joanneor.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Richard Boyd Barrett stating the obvious that the left alliance needs to happen. Last 2 elections prove there’s not a huge appetite for the right but the desire for change is there. Put egos aside and focus on the common areas rather than the division.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 30/11/2024

This is all i've asked for in this debate. Trans women's bodies are not the same as cis men and comparing cis men and cis women's athletic abilities is useless in the trans athlete debate.

Lead researcher Professor Yannis Pitsiladis told Outsports “the main takeaway message is the requirement of international federations (and their “experts”) to treat trans women very differently to cis men.”

Pitsiladis is on the Medical and Scientific Commission of the International Olympic Committee, which helped to fund the research via a grant.

He added: “It follows that research conducted comparing biological men to biological women is almost irrelevant in this debate and evidence from such comparisons should not be used to inform policy as is the case by many “armchair professors” advocating the default ban position.

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Cormac O'Malley @cormacpro.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Even in 2014 you wouldn't imagine watching an Irish women's team in an European qualifier and hours later watching Irish players starring in an #AFLW Grand Final. Not sure we appreciate the strides women's sport is making.

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 29/11/2024

20% of second preference vote goes to FF and FG, with SF at 17%, Exit Poll suggests | Follow #Election24 live updates here rte.ie/b/1483674

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Joanne O’ Riordan @joanneor.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

The left wing parties would be very foolish not to line up after this. The appetite for change is there but I think a fractured left breaks that vote up

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Joanne O’ Riordan @joanneor.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

A whole lotta nothing and a whole lotta the same plus a few parties who may get bullied by the bigger dogs. Jesus take the wheel!

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Joanne O’ Riordan @joanneor.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

A strike and a half from Rueskas Littlejohn. COYGIGing

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Joanne O’ Riordan @joanneor.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Quite literally now or never for the Irish WNT. A major tournament close to home (and within our time zone) could elevate the team even further.

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Joanne O’ Riordan @joanneor.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

GAA Congress, FAI Player Pathway and an election. Not enough spreadsheets. And this is all after an anxiety inducing WNT game v Wales

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Dermot Corrigan @dermotmcorrigan.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Happy birthday Barca. On the man who founded the club, 125 years ago today - and the role in his story of European colonialism in Africa, the 1929 Wall Street Crash, two different Spanish dictators and a British Navy band who had no idea what was going on... www.nytimes.com/athletic/594...

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Barcelona’s 125th anniversary: Joan Gamper, the man who built the club (thanks to a magazine advert)

How frustration prompted a Swiss man to create one of the world's most beloved football clubs - before he was exiled

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

This is a really thought provoking piece from Dr Rónán Collins about our hospitals and the lack of care for our elderly and vulnerable. It really brought back to me the fear I experienced every time my dad was hospitalised and how traumatic it was for him. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

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Hospital care should have been the issue of Election 2024

Imagine a never-ending economy class flight with no entertainment and you have a close picture of many of our hospitals. These are not the places of care or sanctuary they should be, writes Professor ...

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Ciara Reilly @primedteacher.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

They have learned *nothing*. Nothing from Kanturk, nothing from the doorsteps, nothing from the referendum. This is such a terrible choice/medium. SEN isn't the one to unleash the AI gimmick on. #GE24 www.instagram.com/reel/DC6vsVZ...

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

On a separate note, worth pointing out that Harris’ team assured The Journal of an interview either today or yesterday, which Harris eventually reneged on.

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

People who are new to writing alt text sometimes feel they must describe every detail, and then get overwhelmed by this pressure. Imagine a large crowd at a football game: you are not expected to describe every single person in a crowd in detail. This would be nearly impossible.

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Joanne O’ Riordan @joanneor.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Struggling to fully invest myself in Real Madrid collapsing because it’s against Liverpool

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Joanne O’ Riordan @joanneor.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

“I’ve only been in the job seven months” is my new approach when I leave a task undone for 13 years

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Ciara Reilly @primedteacher.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I am one of the parents who has cried. Cries. We are a tribe. All we have is each other. In Ireland, you are utterly alone in trying to help your disabled child. You do it all alone. The State has cut us loose. I fully expect my daughter to reach adulthood without any public therapy. #GE24

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G @geraldineishere.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Still thinking about this part of @carlkinsella.bsky.social’s column, as Simon Harris & co. pretend that he’s only had one single mare of an interaction with the public. The clip does him zero favours, fair play to the woman who continued to make her point despite his snarky remark 🥺

Screenshot from Carl Kinsella’s Journal.ie Surrealing in the Years about Simon Harris’ scolding of the public:

This week, in footage captured by journalist Richard Chambers, Harris was seen in conversation with a woman who raised the issue of people in their 60s and 70s losing their homes to vulture funds. The woman, whose tone is polite throughout, makes the assertion that RTÉ don't discuss this matter, at which point Harris cuts across to say: "I think there's a microphone right beside you that says RTÉ on it".
It was a pointless and childish interjection.
Harris knows well that there's a world of difference between a news organisation covering something to the public's satisfaction and a news organisation accidentally picking up something on one of their mics because a member of the public had the temerity to ask the Taoiseach about it.

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Anna Pringle @annapr.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

(yes I'm biased) Brought a wee tear to my eye when Thomas said very strongly: "no immigrant, no asylum seeker, no poor Irish person has caused the problems that we have in this country. And to blame them and to set up your stall to blame those people is an absolute disgrace." 1/2 #GE24 #SpeirGorm

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

A few FG candidates on to me since last night with real concern about Kanturk moment. They feel it looks very bad for them and they expect it to be something they have to deal with for days to come. Disability issues and school access have repeatedly come up and have underfeatured in media

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Joanne O’ Riordan @joanneor.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

The only thing I want to do in life is to be polled. Call me a nerd but I need the good stuff in life

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Joanne O’ Riordan @joanneor.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Posted this on my Instagram feed. Please vote in this upcoming election and most importantly, understand your vote can impact people’s mere existence.

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Joanne O’ Riordan @joanneor.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

You’d miss Enda all the same…

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Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

This piece I wrote about care work in 2021 feels ever relevant www.irishtimes.com/life-and-sty...

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Could we care less about people who care?

At some point we all need care. Why is it so undervalued?

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