Wishing you a peaceful holiday. Thank you for all of your support in 2024. Looking forward to 2025 and seeing what we can achieve. Special thanks to our staff, board members, Ambassadors, volunteers and supporters. Nollaig shona dhaoibh go léir.

Today is 2024-12-20, the sun sets at 16:07:22 and the grand auld stretch tonight was 1 min and 39 secs. #GrandStretch #TheGrandStretchIsBack

Surprised and delighted to have won this. It’s entirely down to the mighty who was good enough to talk to me about life, football and mental health. A hero.

A few photos from the @shineonlineie.bsky.social Mental Health Media Awards yesterday 🌟🏆 So proud of the team and contributors who made the doc possible! Seeing Michelle and Pat, along with a few members of the production team, honoured for their dedication and bravery was truly moving. 💙

Shine hopes to set up a new Peer Support Group for people with lived experience of mental health challenges in January 2025 in the South City Dublin area. The group will run on Tuesday evenings starting at 6.30pm and the venue is to be confirmed.

Saoirse’s star was the moment that caught my heart by surprise. 💔😢 #latelatetoyshow

It is important that we include hope in our conversations about mental health. At @shineonlineie.bsky.social we believe that this point is crucial. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/your...

“‘They are the last community people are openly racist about’: Sam Wright on his tender portraits of Travellers” - Emma Russell www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Good to see the expansion of this service to more locations in Ireland Tusla is hoping recruitment of key staff this year will ensure it is able to provide long-promised joint interviews, by gardaí and social workers, to child victims of sexual abuse #socialwork www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

Congratulations to a brave woman. The amount may be pittance to the perpetrator but the validation for Nikita Hand and her family is priceless.

Please feel free to add any relevant #OpenAccess resources to the padlet below and share across your networks! 👇👇👇 #RadicalSocialWork #CriticalSocialWork padlet.com/Cuskellk/rad...

Finally I’ve joined a digital platform where my I can be NicolaByrne. Normally it’s gone already by the time I get there. 😂🎉 #NewPlatformAdventurer #ReasonsToBeGrateful #BraveNewWorld