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Councillor Yemi Adenuga

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Irish Woman of the Year Public Life 2025
She Builds People💪🏽
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And another Award🏆
Honouree - Global BlackStar TrailBlazer Award !

From Irish Woman of the Year in Public Life in my beloved Ireland, to receiving a Trailblazer Award in USA and becoming a GLOBAL BLACKSTAR 🌟 , I am still pinching myself and asking, “Lord, how did I get here?”

What a way to close November and step boldly into December.

This is indeed the Lord’s doing and God is doing something, because he is about to do something bigger.

Standing on that stage in New York, holding the award plaque, i felt incredibly honoured to receive this prestigious Trailblazer Award, the 4th award in 2 months! Simply mind blowing! And to be seen and celebrated by your community, and internationally, hits differently ❤️

I receive this global recognition with a heart full of humility and gratitude for a year that has tested me, stretched me, and ultimately strengthened my purpose to serve, uplift, and create meaningful change.

Many thanks to the organisers of the awards @blackstarsexperience Stars Experience, to @panagenius_ , and to the incredible global force @sandrababuboateng and her amazing team.

So thankful for a rewarding 2025 and very hopeful for an even more impactful 2026, with more voices amplified, and more lives touched.

God is truly in the midst of her…
#cllryemiadenuga
#energyinmotion
#shebuildspeople taken in Gotham Hall, New York by @sharingwithyemi

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That moment we made history!
First black woman elected into a county council in Ireland!!!
OUR GOD IS AWESOME!!!
God will never share his glory with anyone!!!
VICTORY ...💃💃💃
#yemiadenuga
#councilloryemiadenuga
#proudlyirish
#proudlynaija taken in Navan by @sharingwithyemi

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WINNER 🏆
Irish woman of the Year Award - Public life

Last night at the prestigious @irishtatler Women of the year Award was a movie!
Still like a dream!
SURREAL ✨

God is in the midst of her…
#yemiadenuga
#irishwoman taken in Shelbourne Hotel by @sharingwithyemi

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#IHaveLearnt
#YemiAdenuga ⚡️
#energyinmotion⚡️
#shebuildspeople by @sharingwithyemi

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Happy 55th Birthday to my mentor, Councillor Yemi Adenuga, @sharingwithyemi my very own Ya Mama, the unstoppable Energy in Motion! 🎉❤️

Meeting you changed the trajectory of my life. Your influence has gone far beyond my career; you played a significant role in helping me find my feet, discover my voice and truly integrate into life here in Ireland.

Our journey began when I joined the first cohort of the YAMAL Life-long Learning Programme and subsequently participated in the YAMAL Political Leadership Programme. What started as structured mentorship has grown into a beautiful, lifelong relationship.

Through the years, you have been a mentor, a guide and one of my greatest pillars of support—a dependable shoulder to lean on and, sometimes, to cry on. You have supported my dreams, encouraged everything I do and extended that same love and support to my family. I never take any of it for granted.

Today, I celebrate not only Ireland’s first elected Black female public representative, but an extraordinary woman who builds people and communities. Your impact reaches across Ireland, Africa and nations around the world. You have opened doors, broken barriers and shown countless women, migrants and young people that they, too, can rise, lead and make a difference.

At 55, you are not simply growing older—you are growing wiser, stronger and even more graceful. You are ageing beautifully and stepping into a new chapter filled with greater purpose, influence and impact.

I thank God for your life, your heart, your strength and the gift that you are to so many of us. May this new season bring you abundant joy, divine health, renewed strength and the fulfilment of every beautiful desire in your heart. May the seeds you have planted in thousands of lives return to you as an overflowing harvest of love, honour and celebration.

Ya Mama, today we hype you loudly because you deserve to be celebrated—not only today, but always!

Happy, hearty 55th birthday, Councillor Yemi Adenuga—our trailblazer, people-builder and phenomenal Energy in Motion!

With all my love and gratitude,
Yours truly,
Olayinka Aremu
Asst.Prof in Nursing
Ireland by @sharingwithyemi

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This is 55🎉
Lord I am so grateful 🙏🏽
I will celebrate your goodness and mercy 🙌🏽🎂 by @sharingwithyemi

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#IHaveLearnt
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#shebuildspeople by @sharingwithyemi

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🆕Stepping Forward: Participation, Representation and Local Democracy

In the latest episode of Local Lens, Meath County Council's longest-serving councillor Brian Fitzgerald joins @sharingwithyemi the Council's first Black female councillor, alongside researcher Claire McGing, to discuss participation, representation and the experiences of women in local politics.

From the progress made in increasing women's representation to the challenges candidates still face, this thought-provoking conversation highlights the importance of diverse voices in local government.

🎧 Listen now and join the conversation on https://ow.ly/EM9250ZLZpx

#LocalLens #WomenInPolitics by @sharingwithyemi

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All the best to all leaving cert students across Ireland 📚
Your future awaits 👌🏽 by @sharingwithyemi

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#IHaveLearnt
#YemiAdenuga ⚡️
#energyinmotion⚡️
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JASON ARDAY AND THE LESSONS WE MUST NOT LOSE: His Brilliance. His Legacy. Our Responsibility.

When I heard of Professor Jason Arday’s death, my first reaction was: “Not again. Not another brilliant Black mind gone!”

I’ve had multiple conversations about Jason, his life, brilliance, contribution and the shock of his passing. I’ve also read about the harassment, bullying, hate and misinformation he experienced, and his stepping away from his role at the University of Cambridge.

Those conversations have stayed with me.

I’ve been pondering what we can learn from Jason’s life. About Black excellence, visibility, representation, the barriers we break, and the reactions that can follow when we refuse to make ourselves smaller.

Why does being brilliant sometimes come with an added burden simply because you are different and were not expected to be where you are?

Why is Black excellence so often met with surprise and then an expectation to prove ourselves beyond simply being excellent?

And why can Black leaders be celebrated for breaking barriers, only to be reminded not to speak too loudly once they’ve made it through the door?

Jason also made me think deeply about representation. It is not just seeing someone who looks like you in a space you never imagined yourself occupying. It is celebrating and supporting them while they are there.

Being the first, or one of the few, can mean walking alone.

You shouldn’t have to. No one should.

Perhaps therein lies the lessons:
To make the road less lonely.
Don’t wait until someone is gone to tell them what they mean to us.
Celebrate our people while they are here. Support one another when we become targets.
Defend one another’s humanity.

Jason needed so much of that.

This isn’t really the post I thought I would write about Jason.
But maybe it’s the post I need to write.

We are saddened by his death, but we must not loose the lessons from his life, the responsibility we probably now carry because of them.
Rest in Power Jason 🦾 by @sharingwithyemi

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WE ARE ALL HUMANITARIANS🧬

Today is World Humanitarian Day.
A day created by the United Nations to honour humanitarian workers and raise awareness of the work they do to protect human life, dignity and wellbeing in times of crisis. It also remembers those who have lost their lives while serving others.19th August marks the anniversary of the 2003 bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad, where 22 people were killed.

But what if humanitarianism is not only about what we do when bombs fall?

A humanitarian is someone who sees another human being in distress and chooses to help rather than harm, to protect rather than persecute, to restore dignity rather than strip it away.

War between nations may involve armies, weapons, territory, power and politics. But wars do not always begin with missiles.

Sometimes, we wage war with words.

We judge, we belittle, we hound, we dehumanise, we turn someone’s difference into a target, we create an atmosphere so hostile that a person can feel as though they are living in a war zone, inside their own home, in a country that is not physically at war.

The wounds may not bleed, they may be no rubble to photograph, but words can leave mental and emotional wounds that are just as devastating, and sometimes harder to see, understand and treat.

When a human being becomes a target for relentless public hostility, we must ask ourselves: when did accountability become cruelty? When did scrutiny become a mob? When did disagreement become war?

The UN’s message this year is: act before warning signs become casualty lists. Stop the violence. Stop the obstruction. Investigate attacks. Support survivors and families.

That message is not only for people working in war zones.

It is for all of us.

Because people do not only need humanitarians when there is war. They need humanitarians when they are lonely, excluded, displaced, bullied, hated, misunderstood or being publicly destroyed.

So today, let us remember:
we are all humanitarians. The question is, what kind are we?

Every day, we choose whether our words become weapons or shelter.

Let us choose humanity. We should never become the warring force in someone else’s life. by @sharingwithyemi

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