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13/07/2025

This Tuesday July 15th 2025, bring a motion to government in Leinster House to discuss the Endometriosis Crisis in Ireland.

Well done to and all who are involved in this important work to have brought this campaign to government & public attention.

I first brought the endometriosis crisis to the awareness of Sinn Fein back in 2015 and have been in direct communication with the past 5 years updating him about the struggles I have been experiencing and the many women who contact me through the community.

For 100’s of thousands of women in Ireland our lives have been devastated by not being able to access proper correct treatment in Ireland.

There are many of us dedicating hours of voluntary work to creating awareness and holding space for the countless women and their loved ones seeking supports.

It’s been a long road of advocating & campaigning & so grateful to see action happening & Tuesday will be a historical event for our endometriosis community.

Back in March 2024 I launched my petition to call for a national inquiry and many of you in the community have signed it and supported the awareness events that I have held in Kerry so thank you all so much.

A United Endometriosis Community can achieve so much.

Thank you also to Kerry Sinn Fein for attending our Kerry Awareness Events and looking forward to what’s to come for Mná na hÈireann

Thank you to .deirdre178 for your support also and especially to all the women & their loved ones who have supported the Cneasú community work creating awareness for our Endo community especially everyone who volunteered their time to speak at our awareness events in Tralee the past two years.

You can sign my petition to request an inquiry here https://chng.it/WD54YDGzRq

Looking forward to Tuesday at Leinster House ✨💛

12/07/2025

11/07/2025

11/07/2025

That time I was up against the Irish Food Giants ✨💛

11/07/2025

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Jack Charlton was Ireland's most beloved English man.

Some people you think will live forever, So Sorry to hear of his passing.

I was such a soccer fan in my teens and remember meeting Jack Charlton and all the Bohemians on a train journey from Dublin when I was 14, I was so excited and he gave me his autograph and introduced me to the team.

I then got to Travel to the USA in 1994 to the World Cup and got to see Ireland Play in Orlando and New York.

He was an incredible sportsman and will be so sadly missed by the sporting world

Ar dheis De go raibh a anam 🇮🇪🇮🇪

11/07/2025

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"In 1992, Sinead O'Connor ripped up a picture of the Pope on live television, in protest of the rampant child sexual abuse the Catholic Church was actively covering up. In the weeks that followed, Joe Pesci said he wanted to give her "such a smack", Frank Sinatra said he wanted to "kick her ass", and millionaire producer Jonathan King said she "needed a spanking".

She was 26.

Ten days later, she was scheduled to perform at Madison Square Gardens, as part of a celebration of Bob Dylan. As soon as she got to the microphone, the audience began loudly booing her, seemingly in unison. She talked later about how awful the sound was, and how she thought she was going to be sick.

The organizers tasked Kris Kristofferson with removing O'Connor from the stage. He instead went out and put his arm around her and checked in on her and stayed until she'd steadied herself and was ready to perform. Sinead replaced the Bob Dylan song she was supposed to sing with Bob Marley's 'War', changing some of the lyrics to be about child abuse.

As she came off stage, Kristofferson grabbed her in a bear hug and kissed her cheek. In a video -- posted in later-- you can see that she pulls away at one point and throws up. He just wraps her back in his arms and holds her tight.

About the incident, he says:

"Sinead had just recently on Saturday Night Live torn up a picture of the Pope, in a gesture that I thought was very misunderstood. And she came out and got booed. They told me to go get her off the stage and I said 'I'm not about to do that'. I went out and I said 'Don't let the bastards get you down'. She said 'I'm not down' and she sang. It was very courageous. It just seemed wrong to me, booing that little girl out there. But she's always had courage."

The recent Gillette ad has started/furthered a lot of conversations about what alternatives to toxic masculinity look like. This is it."

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11/07/2025

Looks incredible 🍉

11/07/2025

Soaking up this incredible weather with lots of sea dips 💛✨

10/07/2025

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This T-shirt was made for my lifestyle 🙈😂💕

09/07/2025

And just like that I have officially recorded episode 1 of Cneasú the Podcast 🎙️

Five months of professional training - full time college since November studying Radio Journalism & Podcasting with &

My very own podcast 💛✨

08/07/2025

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Self - Advocate

noun
/ˈadvəkət/

a person who publicly supports or recommends a particular cause or policy. Self-advocacy is speaking up for our needs and wants.

It is so hard to believe that this coming September it will be TEN WHOLE YEARS since I closed the cafe as I had been approached to go into partnership with investors to relocate the Cafe location and open up a second location in Dublin - I had also just won a place on a Bank of Ireland Funded Business Bootcamp where only 8 businesses in Ireland were chosen to be mentored by Dragons & life was really exciting for the future of the brand.

In the background my health symptoms were progressing at a fast rate & in 2013 I had been told in the hospital that I was “imagining my symptoms” and I was “cured” of Endometriosis

Imagine being told you are imagining your symptoms - especially post diagnosis of Stage 4 Endometriosis & living with debilitating symptoms which would lead to the next 8 years of 8 surgeries, 2 rounds of sepsis, numerous ruptured ovarian cysts, one subtotal hysterectomy by c-section, bladder surgery, an oopherectomy, radical hysterectomy, a traumatic legal case that got split two years ago with a partial settlement and the legal case is ongoing because of layers of systemic medical neglect & a decade of my life completely de railed.

Becoming a Self Advocate happened by chance because I knew I could not be imagining the chaos of a disjointed healthcare system so in 2015 I set up my online community pages to reach out to others who may be experiencing similar and found an incredible world of Self Advocates

I renamed my online community to Cneasú this time 4 years ago and have met the most incredible warriors who are navigating an incredibly outdated & under resourced health system.

In October 2022 the documentary Below the Belt began its World Tour & is making incredible waves throughout the world educating about how Endometriosis is a serious ALL BODY Chronic Inflammatory Disease and women living with this disease are not imagining their symptoms & how misogyny still exists in the medical community

Join our online community to create better awareness 💛

08/07/2025

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Requesting & Reading your Medical Notes from every medical appointment is not an easy process but so important!

This is my experience on why it’s so important!

Your medical notes is a great resource to manage if your medical records are correct!

Unfortunately in 2016 I collapsed at home alone with my then 14 year old son - I was rushed to hospital & rushed into emergency life saving surgery!

I had had a scan 10 days before that & it turned out my scan had not yet been read by the consultant!

I had a ruptured rotten appendix & was due to fly to Amsterdam two days later for my birthday & the surgeon who operated on me told me if I had not collapsed when I did I would have died in the air on the plane!

Ironically I had flown to Milan the October before that for a work trip & flying over the Alps something ruptured & I hemorrhaged bleeding for the four days in Milan - I assumed it was because I’d had surgery the August before that so when I had my scan the following January to see if the surgery in August had been successful, I had no idea no consultant had yet read my scan!

This opened up a Pandora’s Box of decades of medical history a very disjointed medical care!

I have had to read through twenty years of medical records & it can be very traumatic reading how medical records are kept & the misinformation recorded.

What it has taught me is the importance of having access to our medical records which is our right so my advice is always request a copy of your medical records after every medical appointment so you can ensure the information is correctly recorded 💛