A reminder that when last in government Labour and Dep. Ó Ríordáin voted in favour of cuts to schools’ capitation grants in Budget 2012 (-2%) and supported Ruairí Quinn’s plan in that Budget to impose further cuts in 2013 (-2%), 2014(-1%), and 2015(-1%).

'The standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.'
- Noam Chomsky

“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism,” --

Hannah Arendt

I am a child of God, there is no force on this earth that can make me any less than a man of equal dignity and equal worth –

Clarence Thomas, US Supreme Court Justice

This little lady plays like an angel. She relies only on her ears, as she’s blind.. Her talent is breathtaking and deserves endless retweets 👍

One of our wonderful nurses standing in Fingal Aontú Peadar Tóibín TD #LE2024

Education should nurture greatness.

Tune in to NewstalkFM at 5:45pm to hear Alan Hynes ⚓️, Chief Executive of the Catholic Education Partnership as he talks to Kieran Cuddihy of the The Hard Shoulder about Catholic education in schools.

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Instead of always focusing on weaknesses, let's empower students by focusing on their strengths; let them leave school feeling successful and confident, not defeated and disheartened

Solar Eclipse over South Pacific Ocean - Photo by NASA

What are the odds? 😂

My letter in today’s The Irish Times, on behalf of ISTA, in support of Breda O’Brien’s excellent article last weekend on the flawed nature of the draft Senior Cycle science specifications. #edchatIE

Firstly - Leo asked a wonderful question and delivered it flawlessly.

Secondly - we do not deserve Michael Sheen. What a beautiful soul. I love how supportive & encouraging he was, without being patronising.

#TheAssembly

'Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.'
- Simone Weil

He will provide the way and the means, such as you could never have imagined. Leave it all to Him, let go of yourself, lose yourself on the Cross, and you will find yourself entirely.

St Catherine of Siena

“A single tear shed at the remembrance of the Passion of Jesus is worth more than a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, or a year of fasting on bread and water.”

~ Saint Augustine

The cry of dereliction wrenched from Jesus on the cross is the cry of all of humanity’s despair and suffering for all time, every heartfelt petition. Beyond all hope, the Father answers them by raising his Son. (Catechism, 2606)
#GoodFriday2024

Highlights of Pope Francis presiding at the Mass of the Lord’s Supper in the Rebibbia Women’s Prison in Rome.

The Pope washed the feet of 12 female inmates and reminded them that “God never tires of forgiving.”

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Only the Lord can give us our sense of worth. He tells us this every day from the cross: He died for us, to show us how precious we are in His eyes. No obstacle or failure could ever prevent His tender embrace. #GoodFriday

This is awesome! 🙌
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