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Carol Ni Craith 💙💚☘️ 🇮🇪
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Love Life/Family/Friends/Humour/GAA/Sports/Music 🎶/Mindfulness
Interested in #CurrentAffairs #DisabilityRights #UNCRPD
(#Carer for my adult son who has DS❤️)
Dublin, Ireland
Pinned
This guy (my youngest son✨️) is my everyday #Motivation 🤗
Happily gets up every morning, ready to face the day's challenges (despite the many setbacks & disappointments)
Dream on 👊💖 #DisabilityRights
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New territory… Donald Trump now singling out individual EU member states for higher tariffs, starting in two weeks, for participating in military routines in Greenland

Those routines were intending specifically to demonstrate that annexation was not necessary to protect America’s interests 🫠
January 17, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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Statement on the meeting between X and Niamh Smyth.

Govt to meet on Monday.

Doesn’t sound like X gave much.
January 16, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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This is interesting timing, as the government weighs up increased pay at semi-states:

@businesspost.bsky.social reveals that Mari Hurley, who only became RTÉ’s CFO two years ago (€200k + allowances), is leaving for Ires REIT (CFO’s package: €640k in 2023).

www.businesspost.ie/companies/br...
Breaking: RTÉ CFO Mari Hurley to join Ires Reit
www.businesspost.ie
January 16, 2026 at 7:15 AM
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#New Minister Niamh Smyth says X is 'absolutely not' off the hook and she'll be telling company as much in a meeting tomorrow.

She tells me, after meeting the Attorney General this evening, she's confident Ireland has 'robust' laws in place to be enforced here.

@virginmedianews.bsky.social
January 15, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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For the record: as of right now, the Grok app is still doing all the things they’ve said it is stopping, for users with free/unpaid accounts.
January 15, 2026 at 11:23 AM
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🚨 Breaking

Gardaí say investigations are underway following Grok scandal.

"We have received reports and referrals of content on that platform that is under investigation... the process takes some time... it has to be assessed to make sure it's criminal... the people responsible have to be ID'd"
January 14, 2026 at 12:49 PM
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Supt Barry Walsh: "where appropriate, these crimes will be the subject of thorough investigation, with a view to bringing those responsible or any person conspiring to commit or accommodate such offending before the courts..."
January 14, 2026 at 7:29 AM
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Have been contacted by some victims of deepfaking / non-consensual manipulation of their images by AI - about their experiences.

If anyone else in Ireland has a story they'd like to share on the issue, please feel free to contact me.
January 14, 2026 at 7:13 AM
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Senior gardaí will tell the Oireachtas Committee on Media that the recent use of an AI app to present children and adults in an undressed state is "an abhorrent disregard of personal dignity and an abuse of societal trust" that cannot be tolerated
Gardaí to tell committee of 'abhorrent' AI abuse imagery
Senior gardaí will tell the Oireachtas Committee on Media that the recent use of an AI app to present children and adults in an undressed state is "an abhorrent disregard of personal dignity and an ab...
www.rte.ie
January 14, 2026 at 6:51 AM
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The INMO said there were 803 admitted patients waiting for a hospital bed this morning, with concern over the age profile of patients waiting on trolleys or chairs.
803 admitted patients waiting for hospital bed - INMO
A 90-year-old patient recently spend 45 hours sitting on a chair before being transferred to a hospital bed, the INMO has said.
www.rte.ie
January 13, 2026 at 10:58 AM
Lovely sunny morning 🌄 😀 here in Dublin 🌄😀💙
January 13, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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Ireland exported €39.9m of produce to Iran in 2024.
January 13, 2026 at 8:07 AM
This 👇😘💝
January 20, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Best wishes for the week ahead 🤞🙏💝 #MondayVibes
Love this 👇😍 😀
January 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Happy Nollaig na mBan 😘💖💝 xxx
So far, I had the breakfast in peace😋 (before a very busy week ahead 😆)
January 6, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Farewell 2024 👋
#HappyNewYear2025 ✨️🥂🎉😘
December 31, 2024 at 7:51 PM
November 27, 2024 at 11:23 AM
#WednesdayWisdom ❤️❤️❤️
November 20, 2024 at 11:00 AM
Polling cards for #GE24 arrived in the post this #Monday morning 🌄
Heard so many mixed views from family & friends over the weekend... mindboggling at this stage 🙄
So many "undecided " comments, so close to an election 😳 makes for interesting results 😉
November 18, 2024 at 12:53 PM
Our next-door neighbour (fr our 1st home 🏡 ) lost her short battle with cancer & passed away over the weekend 😢 RIP 💐💗
So many happy memories of feathering our nests & raising our children together.
She was always such a kind & caring neighbour .. a gift 💖
#MondayThoughts
November 18, 2024 at 10:13 AM
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Staff at a day centre for people with intellectual disabilities have to boil kettles in order to get hot water to wash service users, an employee has said.

“It’s not a sanitary, healthy environment… it just feels a bit Dickensian at this point." jrnl.ie/6540648
Staff at day centre have to boil kettle to bathe service users with intellectual disabilities
There has been no heating at the day centre in Islandbridge for months, an employee said.
jrnl.ie
November 16, 2024 at 1:01 PM
This is shocking 😲
Sounds like @HIQA needs to immediately inspect this facility for #vulnerable people 💔
#disabilityrights 👇
Staff at a day centre for people with intellectual disabilities have to boil kettles in order to get hot water to wash service users, an employee has said.

“It’s not a sanitary, healthy environment… it just feels a bit Dickensian at this point." jrnl.ie/6540648
Staff at day centre have to boil kettle to bathe service users with intellectual disabilities
There has been no heating at the day centre in Islandbridge for months, an employee said.
jrnl.ie
November 16, 2024 at 2:53 PM
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It feels like we've gone off to colonise a nice new planet!
November 15, 2024 at 7:29 PM