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"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
September 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
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![When Muireann got her family on board, she rang the clinic and was told she could now see an endocrinologist. Fifteen months passed without any word from the NGS, despite monthly calls from Muireann and enquiries from her GP on her behalf.
During this time, Muireann had to continue to present as feminine, as instructed by the NGS. However, without any medical intervention or hormones, “I obviously didn’t pass very well”, she said.
This resulted in her being harassed on the street by strangers.
“I had people come up to me and call me a freak to my face and people making comments and laughing at me. My mental health was in a terrible place by the time I went back [to the NGS].”
After a year and a half, she was finally seen again, but not by the endocrinologist she was promised. Instead, she was seen by another psychiatrist.
She was again told that she couldn’t see an endocrinologist. This time, she said she was told it was because she didn’t have a job.
During this time, two of Muireann’s family members were seriously ill and required care and support from Muireann. With the Covid-19 pandemic also hitting at the same time, she said she wasn’t in a position to get a job, something she explained but she felt that she was ignored by the NGS.
After this, Muireann said she got upset because it felt like the rug had been pulled from under her.
“I thought I’d be seeing an endocrinologist a year ago, and now I was back to square one. They weren’t following the steps they had laid out for me in the first few appointments.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3om2rrmtkdq2qsqjzibiaooo/bafkreibyvpvbtnazmm2cpt4ia5bcixlhuafih5equyehsvpbtsr6u4cfim@jpeg)
![In this same session, the psychiatrist also asked Muireann what clothes she liked to wear now that she had socially transitioned. Muireann said that she enjoyed stereotypical women’s clothing, such as skirts and dresses.
“[The psychiatrist] just looked at me and said, ‘I can’t imagine you in a dress’.”
Muireann said she lost all faith in the NGS after that appointment and that she was left worse mentally after it. She said that she had to seek counselling to deal with her experience.
She asked the support staff at the NGS not to see that psychiatrist again. She was told a note could be put in her file to see another psychiatrist. Despite this, she saw the same psychiatrist the next time she attended the clinic.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3om2rrmtkdq2qsqjzibiaooo/bafkreibaq57jmkq62steccbepfldd64hwgaumrzqafkdng5wbfemltgzgi@jpeg)
April 30, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Employees of #HHS and its agencies who are being fired — RIF'd — started to receive termination notices today starting at 5 am. Big swaths of the #CDC appear to have been cut. Developing story.
www.statnews.com/2025/04/01/h...
www.statnews.com/2025/04/01/h...
HHS starts layoffs of thousands of workers across its agencies
Layoff notices began arriving early Tuesday for thousands of employees of HHS and its subsidiary agencies, with as many 10,000 workers potentially expected to be hit by the cuts.
www.statnews.com
April 1, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Employees of #HHS and its agencies who are being fired — RIF'd — started to receive termination notices today starting at 5 am. Big swaths of the #CDC appear to have been cut. Developing story.
www.statnews.com/2025/04/01/h...
www.statnews.com/2025/04/01/h...
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Never let them tell you that Irishness is some set, immutable fact of the blood
I find this very moving: a 10-year-old Ukrainian boy who moved to the West of Ireland 2 years ago as a refugee, speaking in Irish of his love of playing Irish music
February 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Never let them tell you that Irishness is some set, immutable fact of the blood
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It’s extremely wild to me how thousand of dead children, injured, orphaned, unaccounted for gets less air time than two Israel children
February 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
It’s extremely wild to me how thousand of dead children, injured, orphaned, unaccounted for gets less air time than two Israel children
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A man with a conscience John Furlong helped #Bessboro girls escape. RIP John 💐
www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...
www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...
Obituary: John Furlong, an ‘Angel of Bessborough’, helped women flee mother and baby home
Speaking to the Irish Examiner in 2023, Mr Furlong said of the mother and baby homes: 'When it all came out a few years ago, I remember thinking we knew that was going on. Everyone knew'
www.irishexaminer.com
February 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
A man with a conscience John Furlong helped #Bessboro girls escape. RIP John 💐
www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...
www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...
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I spoke to Radie Peat and Dan Lambert last week about the nightmare of negotiating Ireland's autism services for their 3-year-old daughter. Huge thanks to them both for sharing their experience, so many other families are facing the same impossible struggle. www.irishtimes.com/health/2025/...
‘It’s so deeply unfair’: Lankum singer Radie Peat on the lack of supports for her autistic daughter
‘You ask yourself, will she ever say mama’ - singer and Lankum musician told she must wait until July 2028 for services
www.irishtimes.com
February 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
I spoke to Radie Peat and Dan Lambert last week about the nightmare of negotiating Ireland's autism services for their 3-year-old daughter. Huge thanks to them both for sharing their experience, so many other families are facing the same impossible struggle. www.irishtimes.com/health/2025/...
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🚨 A very, very rare wind energy equalling 80%+ of demand day yesterday.
This has only ever happened a handful of times, and not since as long ago as late 2022.
We may be seeing the effects of a few large wind farms that opened late last year. We'll have more analysis later today!
This has only ever happened a handful of times, and not since as long ago as late 2022.
We may be seeing the effects of a few large wind farms that opened late last year. We'll have more analysis later today!
Renewable generation and pumped storage equalled 85% of yesterday's electricity demand, with a peak of 99% at 05:30. Fossil fuel generation (mostly gas) equalled 32% of demand. 14% of generation was exported, 0% of demand was met by imports.
February 4, 2025 at 10:06 AM
🚨 A very, very rare wind energy equalling 80%+ of demand day yesterday.
This has only ever happened a handful of times, and not since as long ago as late 2022.
We may be seeing the effects of a few large wind farms that opened late last year. We'll have more analysis later today!
This has only ever happened a handful of times, and not since as long ago as late 2022.
We may be seeing the effects of a few large wind farms that opened late last year. We'll have more analysis later today!
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"Because health insurance has become the face of both the rising premiums and the intrusive cost-containment efforts that are largely delegated to them, they have become the primary target of that anger. But it’s not just insurers," Elliott S. Fisher writes: www.statnews.com/2024/12/05/u...
Insurance companies like United Healthcare are not the only ones to blame for a broken system
The public response to United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s murder misunderstands something important.
www.statnews.com
December 6, 2024 at 12:30 PM
"Because health insurance has become the face of both the rising premiums and the intrusive cost-containment efforts that are largely delegated to them, they have become the primary target of that anger. But it’s not just insurers," Elliott S. Fisher writes: www.statnews.com/2024/12/05/u...
2 of the 3 FF TDs being elected from carlow/kilkenny are in this group i believe. So depressing.
The "progressive center left"
December 2, 2024 at 12:01 AM
2 of the 3 FF TDs being elected from carlow/kilkenny are in this group i believe. So depressing.
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People are saying we kept the extremists out. No we didn't.
The "progressive center left"
December 1, 2024 at 7:40 PM
People are saying we kept the extremists out. No we didn't.
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If - as we've been told all year long by media pundits and politicians - there is a big crisis in public opinion over immigration and asylum, then why does it top the concerns of only six per cent of voters? Surely it's not to divert attention from the actual top three issues? #ge24
November 30, 2024 at 3:10 PM
If - as we've been told all year long by media pundits and politicians - there is a big crisis in public opinion over immigration and asylum, then why does it top the concerns of only six per cent of voters? Surely it's not to divert attention from the actual top three issues? #ge24
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The hopeful thing I’m taking away from this election is how few votes the far right guys are getting. There’s no silent majority of far right in Ireland. When they’re out doing their stupid protests, that’s literally all of them out there.
November 30, 2024 at 5:02 PM
The hopeful thing I’m taking away from this election is how few votes the far right guys are getting. There’s no silent majority of far right in Ireland. When they’re out doing their stupid protests, that’s literally all of them out there.