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I’ve always been frustrated with the mainstream media’s lack of interest in disability. I often like the media is refusing to diversify and make space for disabled stories, so I’ve decided to tell them myself. Follow me on TokTik @niamhnih! www.tiktok.com/@niamhnih/vi...

We've launched our new @dublininquirer.com Things To Do newsletter today, we sent out the first edition this morning. If you didn't get it, you can have a read here, and, if you like what you see, you can sign up to get next week's free, there's a button/link at the bottom.

Many of us are gathering in Berlin next week for the Global Disability summit. But Germany's treatment of disabled people has a troublesome underside – it segregates hundreds of thousands. Talking with @raulkrauthausen.bsky.social I find out more: www.disabilitydebrief.org/debrief/choi...

Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal has said that he was attacked by Israeli settlers for winning an Academy Award earlier this month jrnl.ie/6660454

I was genuinely honored to sit amongst these amazing disabled women last week on International Women's Day to talk about representation, intersectionality, and disability justice. #IWD2025 #AccelerateAction Thank you Sightsavers Ireland for hosting this event!

Labour’s reported disability benefit cuts are not just about budgeting but a belief: paid work is a virtue (and people who don’t perform it deserve a worse life than everyone else). My col. in tomorrow’s paper. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A post on X that was re-shared by Elon Musk contains numerous false claims about teacher Enoch Burke and his legal troubles. Burke is not being punished for refusing to use pronouns, and fines against him are not new and have never been collected. jrnl.ie/6645019b

A great explainer by @rachelcdailey.bsky.social. I'm not being hyperbolic when I say that these proposed cuts are terrifying and will hurt (maybe even kill) thousands of British disabled people. national.thelead.uk/p/labours-pr...

For #RareDiseaseDay I wrote for the Journal about rare diseases in Ireland. Although I was glad to hear that a new National Rare Disease Strategy is on the horizon, I still wonder if the government actually cares about rare diseases. Can you blame me? www.thejournal.ie/readme/rare-...

“We have a right to be angry” – protestors on the 20th anniversary of France's disability law. All this more from around the world in today's Debrief, covering disability news from 45+ countries: www.disabilitydebrief.org/debrief/righ... Photo by Matthieu Delaty/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images.

I'm in today's Irish Independent Weekend Magazine with my thoughts on Pennys new range of adaptive clothing and the landscape of the adaptive fashion industry! www.independent.ie/style/fashio...

I'm mourning the progressive cabinet we could have had with the likes of Holly Carins as Minister for Disability and Rory Hearne or Eoin Ó Broin as Minister for Housing.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin is facing backlash for his decision to appoint just three women to his 15-member government.  There are as many women as there are men called James in the new Cabinet. http://www.thejournal.ie/new-government-women-6603232-Jan2025/

I haven't posted on Twitter in a week (and I don't plan to do so anytime soon) but I have a whole network there that I just don't want to give up... Where is the Irish disability community on here? ♿

I'm FUMING that a (very big) publication took my pitch and commissioned somebody else to write it. Being a freelancer feels impossible 😭

This bodes well.

As a European who doesn't really feel like scrolling through twenty million takes on the US TikTok ban, I might spend the rest of today just reading a book

Scríobh mé an alt seo faoi Gaeilgeoirí ar TikTok (Gaeltok) agus a gcuid leideanna maidir le níos mó Gaeilge a úsáid. 🌟 www.independent.ie/life/these-g...

"What about the safety of those sleeping rough? What about their concerns? If you’re scared to walk down O’Connell St at night, then what of the people who have to spend all night, every night, on those same streets, cold, hungry and possibly in pain?" Surrealing: www.thejournal.ie/readme/surre...

I wrote about eight brilliant activists that you need to keep an eye on in 2025! With these people making waves, the future definitely seems to be in good hands.

The landmark trial shocked and moved people in France and around the world. Gisèle Pelicot, the 71-year-old woman at the centre of the case, requested that it be open to the public. www.ft.com/content/d8e5...

Obviously no city is 100% perfect but Barcelona may be one of the most accessible cities I’ve been to! I was very impressed by the metro system + the small raised platforms for wheelchair-users to have level access to the door. Such a simple solution to a big problem. I wish Irish stations had this.

The frigid Arctic tundra has long helped keep climate change in check. Now it’s making things worse.

If this girl from Sierra Leone were white, Hollywood would make a movie about her, the sole survivor of her migrant boat. But she is (so far) anonymous, Black, and African, so the odds are extremely low that she or the 44 people who did not survive will have stories told about them or their heroism.

This is a good thread about the literal cost of good journalism. The Dublin Inquirer is a really good publication and the city is lucky to have it.

This week the Taliban in Afghanistan closed one of the last remaining loopholes in their ban on education for older girls and women by forbidding them from attending institutions offering medical education.

For the past few months, I've been working with L'Arche International to help people with intellectual disabilities from around the world to tell their stories. This is Anna's story - the first in the series! There is an easy-to-read version on the link below too. www.larche.org/about-larche...

A remarkable outcome from #GE24 is that the Social Democrats have continued their run of (approximately) doubling seats in every Dáil and Local elections since forming

The lesson from the election should not be ignoring the threat of extremism because it's still widely unpopular but to continue to fight for unity in our communities to minimise it even further. Though, I'm not holding my breath for op-ed writers to see it that way.

Life got in the way of me finishing my thread on disability pledges in #GE24 manifestos but I just want to encourage anyone who has any interest in disability to vote left+transfer left. Don't be fooled by flashy promises from FF/FG. If they wanted to improve our lives, they would've done so by now.

Life has been busy these past few weeks but I am determined to finih this. Next up: Social Democrats. I feel like the Soc Dems have made a lot of noise about disability inclusion in the run up to this election, so I am surprised to see no accessible manifestos. 1/? #GE24

I was just commenting on the fact that we've had no canvassers at our house in the past 10 years, since I started voting and my dad, who has lived in our house his whole life (73 years),said that no canvasser has ever called to the door!

Next up: Labour I was really interested to see Labour’s manifesto because I feel like I keep seeing people (disability advocates, in particul leave other parties to join them, so I thought they must have something great up their sleeve. (1/?) #GE24

Next up: People Before Profit (PBP). Again, no sign of audio or easy-to-read manifestos. I really hope to see some sort of legislation that makes it so political parties have to produce accessible versions of their manifestos and policies. Somebody should get on that. 1/? #GE24

Next up: the Green Party. Just like FF, the Greens neglected to include accessible manifestos on their website. On more than one occasion, I spoke to them about the importance of accessible communication, so it's not what I had hoped to see. 1/? #GE24

I started this thread on X nearly 2 weeks ago but I'm going to finish it here instead. I'm going through the GE manifestos and looking at their respective disability pledges! I did this in 2020, and it got a good reception, so hopefully it'll be helpful again. Manifesto 1: Fianna Fáil. 1/?

ICC issues arrest warrant for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu

I’m often just the interviewer but sometimes I get to be the interviwee!

I made this account months ago but I've been weirdly reluctant to let go of Twitter (did it have anything to do with the fact that it's where I connected with my husband after briefly meeting years ago in college? Who knows!) But here I am now.