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Kranky Karer

@coreilly.bsky.social

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Awkward cranky unpaid carer Former blogger, old leftie, still curious She/her 😷

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Kranky Karer @coreilly.bsky.social · Apr 5

Pic from 20 odd years ago when I was practising for lone parenthood. The two littlies are my profoundly disabled daughter and my autistic son

Woman with dark brown hair in a short bob and black rimmed glasses sitting on a blue duvet?? and wearing a white shirt sleeved tee is holding a cute small girl and boy, one in a red and white tee and one in a white tee with blue lettering. A girl of about 9 sits behind them wearing a black tee

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Kranky Karer @coreilly.bsky.social · 10h

Yet inflation is apparently 2.7% 🤷‍♀️

Kranky Karer @coreilly.bsky.social · 15h

❤️

#ConnollyForPresident

Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 18h

My partner's letter in today's Clare Champion. I'm very proud of her. Catherine Connolly's campaign is giving hope to people who have felt disenfranchised for so long. #spéirgorm ##Áras2025

Young people do have a future in Ireland

I’m not a very political person.

That’s a strange thing to admit as someone with two degrees in politics, but whatever enthusiasm I had for political engagement was quickly snuffed out as I graduated into an Ireland of austerity and dwindling opportunities. I knew change was needed and I was excited to vote for it, but time and again I was shown that change wasn’t possible. I voted to elect Labour - I got Fine Gael. I voted to elect the Greens - I got Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil. If I just stayed home, I still got Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil.

Time after time, Ireland’s youth begged for changes that would give us some hope for the future, but every time we were told that our lives mattered less than rising house prices. It was obvious there was no future for me in Ireland, so I took the same path as so many others before me and sought a better life in Australia. I had no intention of coming back. Ireland had turned her back on me long before I turned my back on her.

Covid forced me back home and I wasn’t happy about it. I met someone when I returned and we’ve done our best to build a life here, but always with one foot out the door. Melbourne has never stopped calling to me.

On September 22nd, my partner happened to be watching Catherine Connolly’s campaign launch and sitting beside him I felt something stir that I thought was long gone - hope. Catherine Connolly and the people she shared that stage with shared a vision for Ireland’s future that had a place for me in it. I heard Holly Cairns express that the presidency can be a role that highlights who we want to be, not just accepting the shortcomings of who we are right now. I heard Mary Lou McDonald speak of an Ireland where the aspirations and wellbeing of the people come first. I heard Paul Murphy reassure us that there is indeed hope that the 100 year rule of Fine Fáil and Fine Gael can be ended. Finally, when Catherine herself spoke, I saw why each of these le…

A photo of 4 women and a man canvassing for Catherine Connolly. It's a selfie style shot and most people are wearing Catherine Connolly badges or clothing.

Kranky Karer @coreilly.bsky.social · 20h

She didn’t have to take a day off to attend the appointment, she was able to spend most of the morning with her pals, while
I did most of the waiting around

#Disability

Kranky Karer @coreilly.bsky.social · 20h

On a more controversial note, the above is why I’m in favour of campus based disability services for adults like my daughter, once they are rooted in the community

#Disability

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Kranky Karer @coreilly.bsky.social · 20h

#3GoodThings (from yesterday)

1. A pal has lent me an English language copy of Peig, as found in the Drumcondra skip full of free books!
2. The workshop staff at B’s day service put a foot box on her wheelchair to prevent more accidents
3. Got rid of Netflix, and feeling cleansed 🫧

A book with a mustard coloured dust jacket and a line drawing of an old woman in a shawl looking out to sea.

The words on the cover are: PEIG The Autobiography of Peig Sayers of the Great Blasket Island Translated into English by Bryan MacMahon

A wheelchair footrest with a new covering and side walls put in to prevent the user (my daughter B) sticking her feet out at unhelpful moments. Her right foot has a black and yellow “boot” to protect her almost healed broken leg, and her left foot has a white Disney runner (trainer) with a Minnie Mouse charm, that she chose herself

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Kranky Karer @coreilly.bsky.social · 23h

Great support here for family carers and disabled people from Catherine Connolly

Family carers are the only people who have to pass a MEAN test to get paid for their work

#Disability #Carers #WhoCares

Connolly for President @catherinegalway.bsky.social · 1d

"Unpaid carers are predominantly women, which might go some way to explaining why their contributions are ignored." Catherine Connolly speaking out following yesterday's budget on the continuation of the means test for carers, and the unfulfilled promise of a cost of disability payment.

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Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 23h

Israel and Hamas agree to peace deal as hostages and prisoners set for release

Israel and Hamas have agreed to pause fighting in Gaza so that the remaining hostages there can be freed in the coming days in exchange for ...

dlvr.it

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E @elaineedwards.bsky.social · 2d

Got to love Dublin. #Speirgorm

Picture of a large junction box on the street at the top of Kildare Street at Stephen’s Green in Dublin, Ireland. On it is painted a very large, angry-looking seagull in front of two wooden gates. Two tiny people, dwarfed by the seagull, appear to be running from it, one on either side of the lower front of the image. The text over the gates reads St Stephen’s Green. The signature in the lower right of the image says M. Fitz 25.

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Kranky Karer @coreilly.bsky.social · 1d

Though if there’s anyone left who has run every Dublin Marathon to date, they should get priority entry imo

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Carole (Ducky) (IrPsych) @caroleducky.bsky.social · 1d

waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/08/m...

Maria Steen Turning Up At Gates Of The Áras Refusing To Leave Until She’s Made President

A WOMAN who has never been a presidential candidate or appeared on a ballot paper has taken up residence outside the gates of Leinster House, vowing never to leave until she is made president of …

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Kranky Karer @coreilly.bsky.social · 1d

The IPSC online shop is open again for anyone looking to buy merch

#FreePalestine

www.ipsc.ie/ipsc-store

Via beige.party/@ratcatcher/...

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Lilith Ferreyra-Carroll @trasinscneach.bsky.social · 2d

Not going to share 'grift' but Heather Humphreys has just said that I'm a man and the gender recognition act should be changed. Please do not vote for or give a preference for her. Having someone as president who thinks this way would be absolutely awful for minorities #SpeirGorm

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Kranky Karer @coreilly.bsky.social · 2d

I still use it almost every day

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Jules. + 🐕 @julesclarke.bsky.social · 2d

Heres a tote bag c got from my shop and she told me she loves it,

heres where you get one . three sizes www.redbubble.com/i/tote-bag/P...

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Kranky Karer @coreilly.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, I guess I wouldn’t like the kind of secrets that me feel that I should pass on the information to someone else

Kranky Karer @coreilly.bsky.social · 2d

Exactly

Kranky Karer @coreilly.bsky.social · 2d

Okay, that makes sense

Kranky Karer @coreilly.bsky.social · 2d

I must admit, I don’t really understand this - I’m a secret keeper, which means my friends feel comfortable to talk over things with me about their lives or work or whatever, knowing I won’t gossip, I’ve never seen that as manipulative or selfish. Am I missing something?

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Kranky Karer @coreilly.bsky.social · 2d

“Ontario Protecting Taxpayers by Banning Municipal Speed Cameras | Ontario Newsroom”

Not a fan of speed cameras, but banning them 🤯🤯

news.ontario.ca/en/release/1...

Ontario Newsroom

news.ontario.ca

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Andrew Fitzpatrick @amonsterd.bsky.social · 2d

Stolen from Facebook #landbastard #landlord

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Kranky Karer @coreilly.bsky.social · 2d

Nope, can’t listen to the smug tones of PD any longer #Budget2026 #IEPOL

Kranky Karer @coreilly.bsky.social · 2d

There’s a call from the altar for better mental health services in their memory, and in recognition of other families wondering if a similar tragedy could happen in their family 😢

Kranky Karer @coreilly.bsky.social · 2d

Watching their funeral online (not up to attending) and it is so very heartbreaking

The Journal @thejournal.ie · 2d

The bodies of Mark O’Connor, 54, his wife Louise, 56, and their son Evan, 27, were found at the family’s home in Drumgowna, outside Tallanstown village, on Monday morning.

http://jrnl.ie/6837053

O'Connor family funeral to take place today in Louth

Those who cannot attend the funeral mass can view it on the parish’s online stream.

jrnl.ie

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Kranky Karer @coreilly.bsky.social · 2d

Drumcondra Glasnevin is near the city centre and has the Botanic Gardens, the historic Glasnevin cemetery that L also has tours i believe, the Gravedigger’s pub , then there’s Croke Park Stadium, the home of GAA, which also has an amazing looking tour of the roof from which you can see the city

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Dermot Casey @dermotcasey.bsky.social · 3d

Hey #speirgorm can we recommend best old buildings and museums and other interesting historical sights for David?
My starter is The Little Museum of Dublin

davidmccullough.bsky.social @davidmccullough.bsky.social · 3d

We'll be in Dublin for at least 3 days. That looks like our kind of place

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