Great day in Cabra today and capped off stopping by a lovely St. Brigid’s Day event from the great folks in @connectingcabra.bsky.social 🙌🏼💜

Anois teacht an Earraigh, beidh an lá dúl chun shíneadh, Is tar eis na féil Bríde, ardóigh mé mo sheol. Go Coillte Mach rachad ní stopfaidh me choíche Go seasfaidh mé síos i lár Chondae Mhaigh Eo. Feck the rest of the northern hemisphere. This is the start of Spring. Beannachtaí an Imbolc daoibh!

Join #Donabate #Portrane Against Racism to help prepare for our local St Patrick’s Day Parade, Saturday 14th March @1:30pm. The theme is "Ar Scáth a Chéile - In the shelter of each other" - All welcome to Coffee, Craft and Connect, 4th February, 7.30pm, Cuppacabana

I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.

Tomorrow, the Government has a clear choice. Support a €400 emergency winter payment for disabled people — or keep cutting their incomes. Warm words aren’t enough. This vote needs to deliver real support.

The devastation caused by Storm Chandra across the country is shocking but not surprising given a lack of flood preparedness from Govt. Extreme weather is a phenomenon that the country must learn to grapple with – we need a proactive Govt to make mitigation plans, rather than narrate the problem.

Abolishing the triple lock does not strengthen Ireland’s defence. It weakens our neutrality and removes a core democratic safeguard. This change is being pushed despite clear public opposition, and it should be resisted.

Sincere thanks to @fingal.ie staff for removing the vile and offensive « graffiti » from the #Portrane cliff walk shelter - bigotry and hatred must not be tolerated in our public spaces, which are there for the enjoyment of all!

The council should buy the Martello Tower on the coast near Donabate, Fingal councillors urge. It’s listed for sale, and councillors say it’d be a great feature along existing and planned walking and cycling routes that run right by it.

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Nobody expects transport infrastructure to happen overnight but they do expect it to happen. People want to use public transport, they want to see the delivery of infrastructure and of quality service. Stagnating projects and empty promises are not good enough.

Good poll result for the @social-democrats.bsky.social today. We’ve effectively doubled our % in just over a year. Our style of politics isn’t the easiest way of doing it- we stay true to our values & won’t compromise in bringing forward evidence based solutions. There’s a lot more to come 💜

The council should buy the Martello Tower on the coast near Donabate, Fingal councillors urge. It’s listed for sale, and councillors say it’d be a great feature along existing and planned walking and cycling routes that run right by it.

Families are struggling to put food on the table as grocery prices keep rising. In a wealthy country, parents are skipping meals and turning to food banks. Jennifer Whitmore has introduced legislation to give the Food Regulator real powers to act and rein in price gouging.

In this year's Budget, disabled people were left €1,400 worse off per year. This Wednesday, the Soc Dems are bringing forward a motion to urge the govt to introduce an emergency winter payment for people with disabilities. Email your TD today to ask them to support our motion.

I'm pushing for funding for Newbridge's second River Liffey bridge. The council has done its part – now we need national backing! To hear the full interview visit bit.ly/4bKsut1 #NewbridgeOrNowhere #CllrChrisPender #LocalGovernment #Infrastructure #RoadFunding

The newly established Fingal North Local Community Safety Partnership has held its first meeting, marking an important milestone in the delivery of a more community‑focused approach to safety and wellbeing across the region. ow.ly/Jmfw50Y1ImY #CommunitySafety #StrongerCommunities @garda.ie

Farraige gharbh i mBaile Brigín

Tune in to The Pat Kenny Show on @newstalkfm.bsky.social from 9am, when Jennifer Whitmore TD will be joining the show.

It was an honour to write a chapter in the book, How Ireland Voted 2024. The tenth edition. Thank you to the authors for inviting me to participate.

Grok is being used to create sexualised images of women and child abuse material which are posted on X. So, why is the Department of Education still posting images of children to X? If Government Departments are going to continue to use X, can they at least stop posting images of children?

An-cheol ar fad ar siúl ag Tradfest i lár na cathrach anocht 🎻🪗🪉

Rugadh Walter Raleigh ar an lá seo i 1552, agus deirtear gurb é an fear a thug prátaí isteach go hÉirinn don chéad uair ó Mheiriceá Theas- go raibh maith agut Walter, kinda, but not really 🤷🏻‍♂️ #spudlover

Elderly people are being made homeless in Ireland at shocking rates. Pensioners are losing their homes through evictions. We need a ban on evictions into homelessness and real investment in social housing.

We cannot keep pandering to Trump’s bully boy tactics. He’s creating global chaos and we have to finally say enough is enough. We need strong leadership.

Tús maith leath na hoibre. A good start is half the work.

It’s imperative that the Minister for Children presents her dept's rough plan for the rollout of public, not-for-profit childcare to committee for scrutiny. Without the details, we have no way of evaluating the State’s level of ambition, which to this point has been dismal. bit.ly/4qpLWzT

A mixture of one, two and three-bed apartments will be available to rent at Docherty Hall, The Green, Carberry Meadows, Donabate

Na Gealáin Thuaidh sna Glaschnoic anocht. Draíochtúil! #SpéirGhorm

The fascist regime in the USA has decided to ignore MLK day today. #MLK Trump is not capable of empathy or doing anything for another’s benefit. His lack of acknowledgement is no insult to MLK - the only king in this story.

Obair ar Áras Cultúir i Sórd Choilm Cille faoi lán seoil ag @fingal.ie - beidh san áireamh leabharlann, amharclann, gailearaí, cafe & spás comhphobail.

Afternoon @bleeperactive.bsky.social I am here at your office in Dublin to drop of this e-bike as scheduled via online booking, but it looks closed? Can you confirm the situation please?

Great to be celebrating Liffey Linear Park getting the Green Flag Award again. Nine years in a row Huge credit to Newbridge Tidy Towns Association for the work that goes in when most people never see it. Bonus for me I even caught a rare photo of Declan de Poar, usually the man behind the camera.

A mixture of one, two and three-bed apartments will be available to rent at Docherty Hall, The Green, Carberry Meadows, Donabate

Tradfest in #Donabate #Portrane - Gerry O’Connor & Eamonn Galldudbh - Tom Canning - Trad in the Brook Pub! Two big gigs in the Community Centre, Stocktons Wing & Ralph McTell, Sold Out but some tickets still available for The Dublin Legends! Will be a great gig!

Children are waiting years for basic therapies across every region. This is not an isolated issue. It is a national failure. Primary care needs proper staffing, not excuses.

I’m very glad that funding to address flooding at Beach Lane, the Burrow #Portrane is included in this year’s local roads budget, which will hopefully assist local residents, especially some older pedestrians who have faced difficulties, better access their homes.

This is good news. But Sean Binder & his peers should never have been put through years of legal stress for trying to save people’s lives - the weaponisation of law & criminalisation of humanitarians must be called out & stamped out.

Always lovely coffee at Java the Hut #Balbriggan ☕️✌🏼😌

I am relieved to hear that Heba, Kamran and Lewie, of the Filton 24, have ended their hunger strike. I call on Taoiseach and Minister for Foreign Affairs to have the difficult conversation with British government about their treatment of Palestine Action activists, so this doesn't happen again.

People in positions of power and influence should mind what they say. Words carry meaning and affect how people behave. In a country where 14 cyclists were killed on the roads last year, it's not right for a judge to call cyclists a "nightmare". He should withdraw the remark.

The govt's targeting of family reunification law in its measures to fix the creaking immigration system are callous. Family reunification was available to only 600 people last year. Making the laws around it harsher is nothing less than performative cruelty.

Cost rental scheme in #Donabate currently open for applications, details below @tuathhousing.bsky.social tuathhousing.ie/properties/d...

Disabled people are €1,400 worse off after the budget. Some now can’t even afford to charge their mobility aids. With huge budget surpluses available, refusing emergency support is cruel and unjustifiable.

The crisis in public dental services has continued to deepen under this govt. Seven years on from publication of the National Oral Health Policy, we are still waiting on an implementation plan. @padraigrice.bsky.social www.socialdemocrats.ie/crisis-in-pu...

Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns accused the Government of a 'muted response'. She suggested that social media companies were being treated with 'kid gloves' by the Government, and read out a series of 'vile' prompts to Grok by users of X in relation to uploaded photographs of women

Very glad that @irishrail.bsky.social recently provided pedestrian safety bollards at #Donabate railway station, but unfortunate that they have been vandalised. Overall though, we need to see improved pedestrian and cycle permeability in and out of the station and I’ll continue to press for same.

In light of the fake images generatef by Grok, how can the Taoiseach reassure parents that EU regulations will protect them and their children when the EU Commission is pushing for total digital deregulation? The Government must enforce strict regulations on tech platforms in Ireland.

How do they get away with this stuff? They’re either purposefully misleading, or just blatantly ignorant to the facts. Family reunification accounts for less than 1% of inward migration to Ireland. It just means a traumatised person gets to be with their spouse or child while they restart their life

Living with a disability brings extra costs. 1 in 5 disabled people live in persistent poverty. Yet the Government removed supports instead of delivering a cost of disability payment. This is about dignity, respect and real support. A modest, targeted payment would make a meaningful difference.