📣Calling all interested in infant and young child feeding on the island of Ireland. @Kennedy_ails & I would be grateful if you could complete a survey about IYCF in emergencies. It's part of a @hea_irl funded project to develop a preparedness plan. Link: surveymonkey.com/r/IYCF-E-Ir…

While hosting the Irish Section of the Nutrition Society Conference this week, I'm so conscious of babies and families in Gaza who are experiencing severe hunger & starvation. People in Gaza urgently need food aid; humanitarian organisations must be allowed to assist.

📣 Register for this year's Nutrition Society Irish Section Conference. We've a great line up of invited speakers & 70+ abstracts submitted for oral communications. The conference is next week (June 11th-13th) in Grangegorman; come hear the latest in nutrition science 🔬 🧪 🏃‍♀️🥑

📢 Launching Friday, the findings of our @hea_irl funded project, exploring the development of an Infant & Young Child Feeding in Emergencies Preparedness Plan for the Island of Ireland. Still a small no. of spaces available for this in-person event: eventbrite.ie/e/123042422497…

Tune in to RTE1 on Monday 18th Nov to hear @Kennedy_ails and I speak with @KathrionaDev about infant and young child feeding in emergencies. Very excited to start disseminating the findings of this @hea_irl funded study next year. #iycfe #foodsecurity

.@rodericogorman good to see duration & rate of pay of maternity leave in Ireland being discussed. Tho women are currently entitled to 26 weeks paid leave, the payment in the form of the a maternity benefit is only ~9 weeks full-rate equivalent. independent.ie/irish-news/ch…

Upcoming workshop: what makes a city breastfeeding friendly 🤱🏽? Breastfeeding is everyone's business; we need wide stakeholder involvement to understand how to make BF the normal & easy thing to do. Please register to attend & have your voice heard 📰 Retweets welcome!

Mrs Sabina Higgins condemns the daily advertisements for follow-on formulae and suggests instead that TV ads focus on normalising breastfeeding. Says Ireland should adopt the WHO Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Subsitutes. @bflgireland. #NationalBreastfeedingWeek2024

Mrs Sabina Higgins highlights the need for more midwives to provide breastfeeding support in the early days. Mrs Higgins quoted @BainneBeatha and @WeAreTUDublin survey of >5,000 mothers as evidence of this need.

Delighted to see this from @ColmBurkeTD 👏👏👏 Funding to protect, promote, and support breastfeeding is so important for public health. Looking forward to seeing the finer details and to building on this into the future. @BainneBeatha @bflgireland @ALCIreland @LauraMcHugh12

💶 Ireland's 2025 Budget being announced tomorrow, on the 1st day of national breastfeeding week 🤱. 🤞 for ring-fenced funding for BF support. Last week, @HSELive reported ⬆️ prevalence of BF @ 3 months (👏 @LauraMcHugh12). It'd be great to build on that momentum! @BainneBeatha

Thanks @paulinegalway, @marie_sherlock, @violetannetd and @BainneBeatha for advocating for improved breastfeeding support in Ireland. We had a very productive meeting with Minister @ColmBurkeTD and DoH officials today. Hoping to see commitment in Budget 2025 🤱