Well done to everyone who pressured our govt, to everyone who protested outside Paschal Donohues office, to everyone who wrote a letter,sent an email, or signed a petition. Those fuckers weren't gonna move without pressure. #bród #speirgorm #ireland Now tis up to the good people of Luxembourg.

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There's me installing solar panels, trying to buy more efficient appliances, and turn things off when not in use ... and all the while data centres are using almost as much electricity as every household in Ireland put together (22% v 28%) - and that figure is increasing all the time.

Your 'moment of doom' for May 25, 2025 ~ Almost 40 feet. "This is almost certainly beyond the tipping points for the Greenland and west Antarctic ice sheets, and is expected to trigger what the researchers call a 'really dire' sea level rise of around 12 metres." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

dear, dear gods

"Israel denies that Gaza is facing a hunger crisis."

This is the perfect response to whataboutism… “no point in us reducing our emissions because China…”

Public hearings announced for the International Court of Justice advisory opinion on Israel's obligations regarding UN activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. 40 states and four international organisations (UN, League of Arab States, African Union, OIC) www.icj-cij.org/sites/defaul...

Fellow law nerds, I’ll be at UTS Law School (Sydney) this Thursday (10th April) to talk about queer judgment writing and how to navigate emotions in critical, socio-legal research. It’s happening in person and online. Come along if you’re interested! You can register via the link below. 🌈🎓

"The protesters from Mothers Against Genocide staged a sleep-out at the gates to mark the ongoing violence in Gaza and to coincide with Mother's Day." www.rte.ie/news/2025/03...

There remains a significant gender pay gap in Ireland and Jen Keane has built a portal based on available reporting & data where you can check your employer www.paygap.ie #speirgorm #genderpaygap #inequalitypersists #closethegenderpaygap

Is there a more dystopian sight in nature conservation? A wasteland of plastic tubes, wooden stakes and bare soil, eating up valuable conservation funds and making people feel better. But achieving nothing. Meanwhile our ancient woods, centuries old, full of life and complexity, continue to fall.

You can read the letters here, but if you're a Black lawyer, I would advise against it. www.eeoc.gov/sites/defaul...

Trump going after whole ass law firms and trying to revoke lawyers' security clearances AND forbid them access into government buildings—where federal courts are—is evidence of a man who really doesn't like lawyers. (or the law.)

I don't usually repost Guardian links for obvious reasons but this demands to be read. You've heard of the prison-industrial complex, this is the visa-denial industrial complex.

Explain to me, again, why Hungary is a member of the EU? I mean why spend several trillion € ‘standing up’ to Putin, if we already let him have a member state? Hungary makes a mockery of everything the EU supposedly stands for [1]

Philomena's Law is welcome - but mother and baby homes survivors are still being let down, writes Mairéad Enright in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Finance Minister Jack Chambers was made aware in November that the 2024 housing targets would likely not be reached, but the outgoing coalition still claimed during the general election that its targets would be exceeded. http://jrnl.ie/6648610

2024 was the hottest year on record 📈 TV news coverage of climate change decreased by 25% 📉 #EndClimateSilence

Oh, Insta isn't showing the preview? here you gooooooo

He attacked the EU. Micheál said nothing. He attacked immigrants. Micheál said nothing. He attacked trans folk. Micheál said nothing. He cheered a UFC fighter with a history of sexual abuse. Micheál grinned like a gormless git. And people will say "didn't Micheál do great" Get ta fuck. #speirgorm

So thrilled to say that my new article on the echoes of Section 28 in the moral panic around trans people in the UK is out now, along with the rest of the first issue of @genderandjustice.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1332/3033...

Two different pieces today showing the scandalous underfunding of civil legal aid in Ireland. First from @shamimmalekmian.bsky.social (of course) about legal aid for international protection applicants dublininquirer.com/2025/03/05/u... ...

So that German tourist who’s been locked up by ICE for a month rather than deported or refused entry? That story is actually worse, they tried to put her on anti-psychotics. www.10news.com/like-a-horro...

. @bridainep.bsky.social is a PhD researcher & is working on the issue of cultural erasure in refusal to accept accents like the fada. If you've an #Irishlanguage name (particularly a fada), fill in this short survey aiming to understand people’s experiences with their names in different contexts.

These do not seem like significant cost centres in the context of the provision of all services. If the HSE wanted to take really effective, long term cost saving action, they would hugely increase expenditure on maternity unit staffing and training to prevent avoidable catastrophic birth injuries.

Amidst <vague gesture at the world>, I'm happy to share that my new article "Race, Reparatory Justice, and Climate Change-Related Migration" will be published in the @fiu.bsky.social Law Review. It's not currently on SSRN, but I'm very happy to post the draft if folks would like to take a look!

Ireland's energy regulator has abdicated all responsibility for setting policy in line with the climate law. If the CRU doesn't take responsibility, then what public body will?

Ireland has exported more than €97 million worth of dual-use products to Israel since October 2023, the Department of Enterprise has confirmed.

RIP Nilay Ateşoğlu, a Queer Kurdish asylum seeker who sadly took her own life at the Cliffs of Moher. "I have no family," her note said. She asked to be buried in "a handful of soil" in Ireland. "Do not give my corpse to the oppressors." Her note was ignored & her body was sent to Turkey.

It's time to bring back that one comic I drew in 2019, now that the government have made it seem like a reasonable alternative to their "cabins in garden are exempt from planning permission" thing.

And it’s paid, which is great to see!

This is crazy - it will be used for commodifications of back garden sheds for Airbnb market - and comes from the back of an envelope notion from the Stripe brothers funded so called think tank ...#housing #spéirghorm

I just think that having people live in sheds in their ma's back garden is not the same as providing homes, no matter how much you reduce the building standards and regulations for sheds

Punch down "Government documents recommend larger cut to jobseeker's allowance to 'trigger' engagement with Intreo services" www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

Really important thread below.

"the best way to counteract [conspiracy] theories is for people to receive training in critical thinking skills." www.rte.ie/news/2025/02...

No religious bullshit is safe from the illusive dark web sticker phantom known only as WetFood...or so im told.

A constant reminder that even if CO₂ emissions decreased annually as much as they did during the pandemic lockdown from now to 2030, we still wouldn't meet our emission target to keep global warming below 1.5°C.

My heart ached when I was reminded that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for trying to make academic knowledge more accessible to the public. Meta, meanwhile, is doing it for their own bottom line. I'm going to guess that no one at Meta will be looking at spending 35 years in jail for this.

In first intellectual property AI court ruling, judge rules that copying material for input into AI violates copyright. Case differs in some ways from the bigger ones to come, but it seems like it doesn't bode well for the AI industry.

Has anyone noticed a big uptick in no-show buses recently? If so, any idea what the cause might be?

Israel has carried out fresh strikes in Gaza overnight, hours after Qatar and the United States announced a ceasefire and hostage-release deal between Israel and Hamas | Follow live

Fine Gael MEP Regina Doherty claimed in private messages that “Israeli settlements were conducted under international law” and expressed frustration that Hamas had asked the UN to look after Palestinian refugees instead of “their own bloody government”. www.ontheditch.com/fine-gael-me...

The thing about Climate Change is you could easily stop it and prevent the devastating effects by taxing the billionaires like 5%. But the billionaires would rather the whole world burns, and one mansion is only like 0.001% of their wealth, so if a few of theirs burn, who cares.