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Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · Aug 11

Please please get to this. Stop the genocide, the slaughter, the war crimes of Israel

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Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · Jul 1

Getting readying for the 12th here in Belfast

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Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · Jun 25

‘I sleep easier here’: The makeshift homeless community under the M50

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‘I sleep easier here’: The makeshift homeless community under the M50

Rats and rubbish surround the camp at Finglas Road, but to some residents it’s better than other options

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Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · Jun 14

€5,250 a month!! For a three-bedroom flat.

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Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · Jun 7

Children at west Dublin asylum seeker accommodation witnessed friends being ‘put in the back of a black van’

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Children at west Dublin asylum seeker accommodation witnessed friends being ‘put in the back of a black van’

Three siblings were among 35 people deported on a flight to Nigeria on Wednesday

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Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · Jun 5

Boy (16) ‘at real risk of death’ after targeting by drug dealers brought to secure care

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Boy (16) ‘at real risk of death’ after targeting by drug dealers brought to secure care

Judge found boy’s ‘chaotic lifestyle’ and risk profile met requirements for the order

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Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · Jun 5

Dublin tenants shocked to be evicted due to ‘little-known legal loophole’

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Dublin tenants shocked to be evicted due to ‘little-known legal loophole’

For a group of people in Applewood village, Swords, the landlord doesn’t need a reason to remove them

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Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · May 24

What a self-serving bore. He hasnt changed since Self Aid.

Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · May 24

Oh. My. God..Bono on RTE now saying people don't understand the "complex affairs" of US selling arms to Israel

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Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · May 24

Oh. My. God..Bono on RTE now saying people don't understand the "complex affairs" of US selling arms to Israel

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Reposted by Kitty Holland

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · May 24

‘Judge John Jordan, presiding over the weekly “no beds” list on Thursday, heard updates on three children in respect of whom secure care orders have been made but who cannot get a bed due to staff shortages.’

- @kittyholland.bsky.social @irishtimes.com

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Reposted by Kitty Holland

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · May 23

An affront to the rule of law.

Report: @kittyholland.bsky.social
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Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · May 21

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Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · May 21

Oh fer fck sake.. get a grip

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Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · May 21

Israeli military fires shots near delegation that included Irish diplomats

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Bastards

Israeli military fires shots near delegation that included Irish diplomats

Tánaiste ‘shocked and appalled’ at reports of incident in West Bank city of Jenin

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Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · Apr 6

‘He was kept locked in a room with a leg-shackle until the 1980s’: Stories from Ireland’s state-run asylums

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It was an honour to be trusted with the stories of those 'incarcerated' in our old mental asylums, as they were called

‘He was kept locked in a room with a leg-shackle until the 1980s’: Stories from Ireland’s state-run asylums

State-run asylums were Ireland’s ‘largest form of institutional confinement’ but they have never been subjected to a statutory inquiry into the treatment of their patients

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Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · Feb 9

Please share!

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Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · Feb 9

I'm researching mass incarceration in Irish psychiatric institutions up to late 1990s. Would welcome contact from survivors/ their family members. Email in confidence [email protected]

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Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · Feb 5

Ireland is signing up to a definition of anti-Semitism that has been used against Irish politicians

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Ireland is signing up to a definition of anti-Semitism that has been used against Irish politicians

Prominent Irish politicians - including President Michael D Higgins and Simon Harris - have been accused of anti-Semitism drawing on the logic of the IHRA definition

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Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · Feb 3

Nor should compliance, silence, or exclusion be tolerated, especially when at the expense of other survivors.

Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · Jan 30

All voices are valid though, even, and sometimes especially, disruptuve ones. But I appreciate your input.

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Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · Jan 30

It is factually corrct that this is how she heard what was said in the session. I've heard it from others too who were at that session. Were you there?

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Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · Jan 15

This promise in the Programme for Government is so dangerous, conflating legitimate criticism of apartheid Israel with antisemitism

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Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · Dec 20

Attitudes to Traveller and Roma people more negative among middle class than working class - study

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Attitudes to Traveller and Roma people more negative among middle class than working class - study

Residents of affluent areas less comfortable with having Travellers as neighbours, ESRI reports finds

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Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · Dec 20

‘I have never really had sex not for money’: Woman hopes new injecting facility can allow some dignity

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‘I have never really had sex not for money’: Woman hopes new injecting facility can allow some dignity

‘Amber’ believes the new medically supervised injecting facility at Merchants Quay will ‘change her life’

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Kitty Holland @kittyholland.bsky.social · Dec 20

Capuchin vouchers: ‘I have four kids and two grandkids - this is for St Stephen’s Day dinner’

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Capuchin vouchers: ‘I have four kids and two grandkids - this is for St Stephen’s Day dinner’

Queue for €50 grocery vouchers began before 4am with over 2,500 distributed by 8.30am

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