@aliceeire Welcome!
Can I make 2 suggestions?
1) Encourage the Oireachtas to set up it's own mastodon instance that will have all TDs and Senators (and An Uachtarán, of course) -- verification by default because the only chancers permitted will be duly elected.
2) Either way, encourage as many of your colleagues as you can to make look to the open alternatives to Twitter.