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PBpiraat.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyOct 1, 2024 3:15pm

This from Siobhán Malone McBarron is right on the money. https://www.irishtimes.com/health/your-wellness/2024/10/01/assisted-dying-gps-fear-they-will-be-left-to-plot-a-course-through-a-divisive-and-complex-issue/#AssistedDying #Ireland #IEpol #Oireachtas

“I do not want the people I love watching my body waste away and deteriorate in front of them while I lose my independence, my dignity and most of all the ability to care for myself … My illness is more than just enduring pain. It’s a constant assault on my body, emotionally, mentally and physically. So why can’t I get to choose to say goodbye and go on my terms if the time is right for me if I want to?

“I personally think the final stage of accepting any incurable illness or terminal diagnosis is surrendering to it, as none of us are going to live forever. What are the benefits of dragging out someone’s pain, misery and suffering when the end result is death anyway? Death comes for us all eventually.

“I cannot control the progress of my disease but I should be able to control when and how I die,” she added. “All I want is to have the option to be able to choose my final last step when my suffering becomes intolerable.”

A prolonged standing ovation, before Malone McBarron was assisted off the platform, suggested she may have “moved the dial” another notch among the undecided in the room.

Ddirkvanbryn.bsky.socialSep 26, 2024 10:16am

Beidh na leaids ag caint ar an dul chun cinn agus ar an tionscadal i gcoitinne ar an Satharn ag an Oireachtas, má bheidh sibh thart! www.antoireachtas.ie/oireachtas-n...

Ccaroleducky.bsky.socialSep 25, 2024 4:03pm

www.independent.ie/irish-news/p... Security shelter at Department of Finance cost over €1.4m, Oireachtas Committee hears

Security shelter at Department of Finance cost over €1.4m, Oireachtas Committee hears

A security shelter outside the Department of Finance cost over €1.4m, the Oireachtas Finance committee has been told.

Aastrathedragon.bsky.socialSep 24, 2024 5:54am

hot people mobilise too

infoposter image thingy for the NATIONAL RALLY in support of the Occupied Territories Bill stuck in the Irish parliament for today Tues 24th Sept destination Leinster House, gathering at Molesworth Street at 4:30 PM 16:30. Pictured is the path that people have walked legs of all the way carrying the petition from the aptly named Cahersiveen (due to the likeness to Qaher) which means Saidhbh's Chair, all the way to Dublin to the Oireachtas, the Irish houses of parliament.

infopic thingy with a QR cote to go to the Uplift petition https://my.uplift.ie/petitions/enact-the-occupied-territories-bill, background is Palestinian flag and text reads "ENACT THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES BILL!" and directs reader to scan to sign or follow a link

infopicture thingy advertising the National March taking place in Dublin at 1pm 13:00 Sat 5th October from the Garden of Remembrance to the Dail, with a disability access point at the corner of D'olier street (duleer street, if TTS reads that wrong) and College Green. The big headline writing reads "GAZA ONE YEAR OF ISRAEL'S GENOCIDE" while smaller writing above states "41,000 lo;;ed. 16,000 were children, 100,000 injured, 10,000 missing, sanctions now!" and smaller text at the bottom mentions "Speakers, Music, Chants, Kids' Arts Drop-in | Bring Friends, Family & Noise" and finally various links to the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign, the org of the issuance of all 3 pics in this post

PBpaulburgin.bsky.socialSep 21, 2024 7:15am

#MarsHillBlog #FineGael #Dail #Oireachtas #Ireland paulburgin.blogspot.com/2024/09/fine...

HEmeersalt.bsky.socialSep 20, 2024 11:15pm

Now we have a funeral; fortunately it’s Shane McGowan’s and they are going Fairy Tale of New York in some cathedral or other; we have Michael D rocking on the Oireachtas for us. Or the Dàil.

MMglasshalfarsed.bsky.socialSep 13, 2024 8:21pm

I'll be old enough to run in the 2032 presidential election. I'm already trying to figure out how to convince 20 members of the Oireachtas or 4 local authorities to nominate me. I think I am going to tell lies.

ODorandoyle.bsky.socialSep 8, 2024 8:24am

Interested in people's thoughts, but a solution might be to follow the approach taken by SC in Carmody and prohibit prosecution of the two applicants until the Oireachtas takes steps to address the unconstitutional discrimination identified in the Court's judgment.

TFhmcevansoneya.bsky.socialSep 7, 2024 11:55am

Based on recent events I am forced to conclude that along with nominations from local authorities or the Oireachtas, there is a secret third way to get nominated to run for president of Ireland: snorting your own bodyweight in cocaine

AUattractaub.bsky.socialAug 26, 2024 6:35pm

Enjoy the Houses of the #Oireachtas#OireachtasCultureNightwww.oireachtas.ie/en/press-cen...