4 years on: forever grateful to the handful of people who planted seeds & the access I had to an education. Childhood spent in Residential State Care, Became a Dad at 15, left school without even a Junior Cert, However in 2020 with hard work & commitment obtained my MSW 🎓

There’s a scary and ever growing number of children in Ireland who are in very unsafe situations at home because we don’t have sufficient numbers of foster carers to help to care for them. A proper fostering strategy has to be given urgent priority by Minister Roderic O’Gorman TD

i had an abortion yesterday. want to do my part to end the stigma by not keeping it a deep dark shameful secret. abortion is healthcare, essential to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. everyone deserves the freedom of choice, and i will continue to fight for it.

Taylor Swift has donated enough money to cover the food bills for an entire year across 11 food banks and 8 community pantries in Liverpool. She has done this for every city she's toured in the UK meaning she’s done more than the govt has in 14 years to eradicate food poverty.

"The 235 children, under the care of two social work departments – Dublin southwest/Kildare west/Wicklow and Dublin south central – still have no allocated social workers and some have had no allocated worker for years" irishtimes.com/crime-law/cour…

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Today Child Law Project launched its latest volume of 70 reports bit.ly/3XV3J6t One of the shortest reports (just 262 words) illustrates the placement crisis Six placement changes in six weeks for two children aged two and three years Read: childlawproject.ie/latest-volume/…

Heartening to see, among our reports published today, foster carers being awarded enhanced rights for a foster child they describe as "part of the family". Foster carers are the backbone of the care system. The Irish Foster Care Association Tusla - Child and Family Agency childlawproject.ie/latest-volume/…

The Ombudsman for Children, Dr Niall Muldoon has today expressed his despair at the last volume of case reports published by the Child Law Project. Read our statement in full, here: oco.ie/news/ombudsman…

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As everyone cheers England on, just remember the women who will dial 999 tonight because they’ve been beaten up or emotionally abused. Football isn’t the cause of male violence — men are. We don’t see a spike in violence towards women when the lionesses play.

The Government must conduct an independent review of the care system and implement a costed and fully funded reform programme to develop a care system which is fit for purpose. rte.ie/news/ireland/2…

🇵🇸 Our message to everyone in Dublin this weekend. Ireland stands with Palestine, always. #FreePalestine 🇵🇸

"I remember having a 1 hour lecture on domestic abuse, I had pretty much no mention of coercive control during my training - Social Worker Cintia" "After 5 yrs in the job, she estimates 90% of her caseload is linked to psychological & controlling abuse" bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

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We’re starting a new initiative this Thursday in UCC Ireland to provide a social outlet for justice impacted learners. If you know anyone interested please let them know. Gillian Butler Leonard ISS21 Access UCC Criminology, Cork, Ireland