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Dusk to Dawn
https://atriumpoetry.com/2020/09/11/dusk-to-dawn-fiona-mcphillips/

Night Light
https://www.headstuff.org/culture/literature/poetry/poem-of-the-week/night-light-fiona-mcphillips/

Grief
https://thegalwayreview.com/2020/05/13/fiona-mcphillips-grief/

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Fiona McPhillips @fionamcp·

17 May

When I was waiting outside theatre for a D&C to remove my dead baby, a nurse tried to talk to me about God's plan. When I came round, my first words were, keep that nurse away from me. Some people might like it but it crushes others and this is supposed to be a secular hospital.

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill TD@CarrollJennifer

There was a chapel in Holles Street too. Haven’t been there in a bit though. And a chaplain visited parents in the NICU in the NMH. Again, maybe that’s changed. There is/was a chapel in Crumlin Children’s hospital. Some people like it on hard days, even atheists like me. https://twitter.com/drboylan/status/1526190962158059524

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Fiona McPhillips @fionamcp·

9 May

JFC The comments on this excellent piece do as much to justify action as the piece itself. I would say don't read them but please do, especially if you think sexism doesn't affect older women.

Nicky Clark@MrsNickyClark

If you could RT my piece that would be great. I’m so tired now. It’s difficult at my age to keep trying to say older women matter. I do get that no one cares & why. It’s not easy after decades of misogyny not to think that the status quo is right…xx https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/tv-baftas-older-women-ageism-b2074051.html

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