Today is World Hearing Day & 9 years ago I started wearing hearing aids - what a liberation that has been
Too many suffering unnecessarily because of hearing aid costs - mine were €6k
Govt needs to tackle this so that social isolation & depression due to hearing loss ends
Today's tune de jour youtu.be/wUDRIC5RSX4?...
Michael D Higgins at the podium
What an honour that our President chose to spend his last May Day in office with trade unions.
"Your movement is the greatest hope for economy, ecology, and justice.
"Your campaign for trade union week needs to show everyone that there is dignity in work, and hope in the collective."
Happy May Day
Today Smoke-Free Workplaces have come of age in Ireland as it's 21 years since their introduction by law.
The privilege of my life to be part of the campaign that brought this ground-breaking public health measure into effect.
Turns out that a man who entirely baselessly and bizarrely calls a British minister a rape genocide enabler and tweets random conspiracy theories day and night might neither be the most stalwart nor reliable political ally.
The first Bee Network service pulls out of a snowy Altrincham Interchange early this morning.
Despite all of the challenges - legal and meteorological - we did it!
After 40 years of damaging deregulation, Greater Manchester has this morning successfully retaken control of the whole its bus network. 🙌🏻
She was fantastic
Farewell President Jimmy Carter, a man ahead of his time, seen here installing solar panels on the White House 0n 20 June 1979, 45 years ago, sadly removed by President Ronald Reagan when he took office 18 months later.
Four of the best!
Year in review:
June 2024!
Of all the photos taken in the RDS this is my favourite. The 4 women who made it happen - two campaign managers, Labour’s General Secretary and the Labour Party leader.
Photograph of cars backed up on Wicklow Street in Central Dublin
Dublin City belongs to the ̶C̶a̶r̶ ̶P̶a̶r̶k̶s̶ Traders Alliance. We just get to (try to) walk around it.
Congrats
Remember government leaders over the weekend saying they support disability workers & others like them?
Today at talks on pay equality, government reps said they had NO MANDATE to address the issue.
Micheál Martin TD & @simonharrisireland.bsky.social - give them the mandate them. Immediately.
Sinn Fein cannot stand by the actions of the IRA and then expect not to be questioned on its actions during The Troubles, writes Olivia O’Leary
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024...
Proud to be attending the @irishcongress @LeCheileDND Rally for Unity and Hope
As @SIPTU General Secretary, Joe Cunningham, said on Friday next we have an opportunity to send a clear message to those trying to sow division and hatred
