Nice to make a little appearance in the majority judgment delivered by Murray J in Hyland v Commissioner of An Garda Síochána [2025] IESC 43 yesterday!

Not our first event in time - but our first announced event! More to come in the following weeks but I am really thrilled to be hosting this in Ireland in 2026.

"Emails from Heriot-Watt University (HWU) suggest Raytheon UK asked the university to “monitor university chat groups”" Oh www.theguardian.com/education/20...

the EU parliament is looking for a native-level irish speaker for a press officer traineeship, starting next march it's paid (€1660/month, no tax) and is a pretty sweet opportunity to see how the EU sausage is made, and a chance to try brussels (if you're not already here) deadline end of october!

We cooperated with RTE PrimeTime over the last year on this very significant story about RTB data exposing the movements of Irish people, including military and political personnel. Link to this morning's preview piece is here --> www.rte.ie/news/primeti...

First day of teaching term

Banksy just solved so many academics' dilemmas over a book cover. They even get to make a knowing aside about the gavel. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tharr is a beith bródúil as mo beag-nach-fear-chéile for successfully defending his PhD earlier this week. Sár-fear.

In a busy semester this passed me by - but delighted to see some of my @artsandhums.bsky.social research with @aberuni.bsky.social colleagues cited in the House of Lords report on interpreting and language services in courtrooms lordslibrary.parliament.uk/interpreting....

My love of the em dash is not up for debate

I’ll be on @newstalkfm.bsky.social at 3.30 today speaking about language rights in courtrooms and what the Irish court system needs to do to accommodate languages other than English - including the national and first official language 🇮🇪

I've written about the shortcomings of our current system of interpretation for minority language speakers in court - what we can learn from neighbouring countries - and the problems Irish speakers still face using their preferred language www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...