Proud father and husband, Teacher of English and Manchester United fan. Will mostly discuss education, football, fantasy football, baseball and some politics.
Joined August 2017
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Damian O Brien retweeted
Michael Carrick sacked by MUFC.
Top lad, got the team in the Champions League against expectations. Gave it his all, night and day. Protected others, never threw anyone under a bus. Worked in difficult circumstances. Leaves with head held high. I wish him and his staff the very best.
Damian O Brien retweeted
Teacher on pay talks: Before we attempt to measure productivity in our schools, perhaps we should first recognise the work that teachers already give freely....
thejournal.ie/readme/teacher…
Damian O Brien retweeted
#edchatie
“the push for rushed, under-resourced Senior Cycle reforms guarantees a poorer Leaving Certificate for future generations.”
“Students deserve better than a system that favours political optics over genuine improvement.” 👏🏻
irishtimes.com/opinion/lette…
Damian O Brien retweeted
No party.
No disco.
Long gone from Normietown.
Sit on your hands.
Or don’t.
Are we subject?
Are we object?
#defendirishneutrality #savethetriplelock #triplelock #neutrality #irishneutrality #tomclonan @TomClonan
Damian O Brien retweeted
"Eu acho que outra coisa que a gente acabou importando dos esportes norte-americanos, é muito mais fácil transformar tudo em número. Futebol é um esporte que tem mais fluidez. O que encanta muitas vezes não é o que você faz, é como você faz. Isso é difícil colocar no número.
Uma vez estava no Maracanã, ao lado de uma equipe, e eram pessoas, não inteligência artificial, colando as estatísticas do jogo. Então um falava: 'passe certo do jogador sete'. Eu assistindo o jogo, pensava: 'esse passe foi uma droga'. Chegou no jogador vestindo a camisa da mesma cor, mas ele é canhoto e chegou no pé direito. Foi um passe de três metros, mas foi tão perto que chamou a marcação e tinha uma opção na diagonal que teria sido melhor.
É uma frieza que tira um pouco a beleza da fluidez do futebol, que é um diferencial em cima dos outros esportes"
🎙️ @Tim_Vickery
#FutebolEmContexto
Damian O Brien retweeted
Ireland's newly qualified graduate nurses are being left completely in the dark after the HSE suddenly paused new employment contracts due to strict hiring controls. Nurses who proudly accepted job offers over the summer—like Westmeath's Della Ní Chléirigh—are now receiving alerts that their start dates are on hold until further notice. While the HSE points to a severe budget deficit and heavy reliance on agency staff to justify these measures, frustrated graduates are left wondering how a healthcare system with such massive staff shortages can turn them away. Many are now facing financial uncertainty, with some even considering moving abroad or staying on jobseeker's benefits. Healthcare unions and political representatives are rightly calling out these restrictions as reckless and dangerous for patient care.
#DellaNíChléirigh #HSE #NursingGraduates #Reckless
Damian O Brien retweeted
Great letter by Adrieanne Healy in today’s @irishtimes #edchatie
Leaving Cert reforms too risky for student learning and teachers’ health
School labs lack adequate facilities for proposed physics, chemistry and biology studies to be done safely
irishtimes.com/opinion/lette…
Damian O Brien retweeted
When the person that tells everyone what a handy number teaching is tries out a bit of teaching.
Damian O Brien retweeted
Here's the distribution of earnings of Education workers
And a comparison to the overall distribution and IT, which has a similar profile in terms of education requirements
About 3 in 4 (72%) Education workers earn less than €62,000
Damian O Brien retweeted
Irish teacher in Oz on the strikes and the comparison of teaching/living here and there. She's probably never coming back, why would she?
Damian O Brien retweeted
'We’ve been pushed and shoved' into strike action, teachers say irishexaminer.com/news/arid-…
Damian O Brien retweeted
#edchatie
If you are involved in education here in Ireland, then Ciara Reilly is well worth following on Instagram.
Here she speaks about our politicians and their framing/spin of the forthcoming industrial action by teachers, well said 👏🏻 maith thú, Ciara!
Damian O Brien retweeted
“teacher-bashing has become so normalised in society...the loudest criticism often comes from those who have little understanding of what the job entails. If some of our harshest critics spent 24 hours walking in a teacher's shoes, their perception of the profession would change”
Damian O Brien retweeted
If You Don't Understand Government Debt,You Don't Understand Money youtu.be/7OYUI8FpCKI?si=Mcny… via @YouTube @RichardJMurphy @yanisvaroufakis @StephanieKelton @PrivateDebtProj
Damian O Brien retweeted
#edchatie A nice riposte from teacher Stephen to Paul’s letter yesterday @IrishTimes accusing teachers of being “selfish” for working to rule.
“Teachers are not suddenly becoming selfish. We are simply, for a period, choosing to do the job we are contracted and paid to do.” 👏🏻
Damian O Brien retweeted
#edchatie
Letter in @IrishTimes
“For years, Ireland’s education system has quietly relied on the goodwill of teachers, endless unpaid hours, voluntary extra-curriculars and administrative work carried home every evening to mask systemic underfunding.”
Damian O Brien retweeted
The NCCA refuses to listen to valid concerns re: Leaving Cert reform in many subjects expressed by teachers & academics (some resigned from subject development groups in protest)
Reforms may be postponed for now but will prob be forced through in the future regardless. #edchatie
Am I reading this correctly? Has the NCCA postponed the redevelopment of Leaving Cert Mathematics and English? Has any explanation been given?
ncca.ie/en/senior-cycle/seni…
