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A warm wind of kindness sweeps across the globe 09/09/2021 I am genuinely overwhelmed at the kindness and enthusiastic response I received recently when I threw a request across the globe asking for help with my upcoming children’s book, about a beautifully carved tree in Clontarf, sitting on Dublin Bay. The Book is called the …
Those Big Bad Russians 23/05/2021 Anyone who knows me will know that I am outspoken, not easily duped, can read most people both good and bad and have spent the last twenty-three years trawling through Russia’s underbelly, as well as their most opulent palaces, from many orphanage kitchens to the glittering dining halls of the …
Salmon, Sharks and Fishnet Tights 02/05/2021 I would like to acknowledge all those who helped To Children With Love get through the last year and give you some insight into how a small, hardworking charity operates. So, to all those who donated to TCWL in the past 12 pandemic months, whether it was €5 or …
Love Her Or Hate Her, It Won’t Change The Science 14/04/2021 Greta Thunberg did not feature highly in my life. I watched her pouty face with Trump, I watched the snippets of her tantrums on air over the state of the planet, I watched her tears and drama, but I was misled by the media. We …
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You Can’t Smell The Flowers Until You Blow Away The Negativity Mist 09/02/2021 “You are as pretty as a speckled puppy” said Oprah’s pastor to her when she was just 5-year-old and thought of herself as an ugly duckling. Oprah went home on a high and believed it from that day forward, as this pastor …
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Be The Light 24/01/2021 Bessborough, Bali, Bryansk. Never have I thought about the work we do in our Charity as much as I have this week. People say to me all the time “ You are amazing “, “How do you do it?”, “I couldn’t do what you do, I would have to bring …
Blame Lies Solely on Heads of Church and State 12/01/2021 Who were these evil, dysfunctional creatures with starched habits, boiled looking pink skin and no eyelashes who called themselves disciples of God? Who were these bitches that starved, tortured, beat and shamed young mothers and sold their babies? If we had witnessed this in Auschwitz, …
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HERE’S TO A MAGNIFICENT 2021 02/11/2020 I am not sure if I live on a roller coaster or not, but all our lives are full to the brim with family, excitement, illness, tragedy, love and new life, that’s for sure. I am up earlier today than usual, it’s 4am. I find lying on the flat …
SHAME ON OUR LEADERS 30/10/2020 There are not many people who still live and work in the 1960’s, yet sometimes I feel that I am one. I work in baby homes as well as older children’s homes and beyond, mostly still as they were many years ago. Myself and my team spend most of our …
AS PROF. LUKE O’NEILL SAYS “NEVER MIND THE B#LL*CKS HERE’S THE SCIENCE” 15/10/2020 In 1998 my breath was taken away by a documentary from China, showing little girls in orphanages chained to cots and potties for hours on end. Abuse on a grand scale, it triggered women in Ireland to act and many of us …
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