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Senator calls for progress on Cork safe injection centre, Echolive.ie

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  • Post published:29/09/2019
  • Post category:Media

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AvatarSinéad McGarry@Sineadmcgar·
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Social workers! @IASW_IRL is a microphone, a means for us to challenge the social injustice we witness in daily practice at strategic & political level to achieve positive social change. I strongly encourage all social workers to join & contribute to advocacy work of @IASW_IRL https://twitter.com/IASW_IRL/status/1354039389521899523

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Let’s grow together! Members of the IASW, click here https://iasw.ie/IASW_Member_GetAMember for information on our ‘Member Get A Member’ recruitment drive and spread the word to your social work colleagues

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25 Jan

“It is a very satisfying feeling, that we as Irish Travellers do matter, and deserve to be treated with respect and dignity as is a human right afforded to all citizens of Ireland.” - FLAC Traveller Legal Service client speaking on decision of the @WRC_ie
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/traveller-who-tried-to-book-hotel-wedding-awarded-15-000-for-discrimination-1.4466804

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25 Jan

FLAC Traveller Legal Service wins maximum payout for woman discriminated against by hotel https://www.irishlegal.com/article/flac-traveller-legal-service-wins-maximum-payout-for-woman-discriminated-against-by-hotel

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25 Jan

Encouraging to see first #coercivecontrol convictions under Domestic Violence Act, 2018. Work still needed to extend the law to include non-intimate relationship #coercivecontrol as a crime
Turning point in how Ireland treats domestic abusers https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlight/arid-40212695.html?type=amp

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25 Jan

Strengthening the IASW is Good For Everyone. Members, Spread the Word Today by asking a Colleague to Join the IASW. Click here https://iasw.ie/IASW_Member_GetAMember for information on our ‘Member Get A Member’ recruitment drive.

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AvatarSarah Donnelly@sarahmdonnelly1·
25 Jan

Fantastic interview @morningireland @Sineadmcgar @iasw calls for Liaison Social Work Role to be rolled out nationally and #socialworkers to be redeployed to #nursinghomes to provide vital communication care and crisis support #Covid19 @HSELive
https://www.rte.ie/radio1/morning-ireland/programmes/2021/0125/1191821-morning-ireland-monday-25-january-2021/?clipid=103582919#103582919

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25 Jan

Today on @morningireland the @IASW_IRL calls for HSE social workers to be part of Covid-19 response teams deployed to nursing homes to assist communications with families. After 7:30 on @rtenews @RTERadio1

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AvatarWomenscouncilireland@NWCI·
24 Jan

"Adults are being re-traumatised, and adults and children alike are being degraded within a system that views them as less than human." Mike Fitzgibbon, lecturer in international development at UCC, via @irishexaminer
#EndDirectProvision
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40212323.html

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AvatarEileen Ní Fhloinn@Love1solidarity·
23 Jan

'I'm Eileen, I'm a Traveller and a Senator. I'm not 'the Traveller' Senator "

Thank you all for the kind words about my interview on #TheTommyTiernanShow

Available to watch here: https://www.rte.ie/player/series/the-tommy-tiernan-show/SI0000001918?epguid=IP000066609

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23 Jan

The beauty that is @Love1solidarity is on #TommyTiernanShow right now. She is a superstar #MoreWomen

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