Buongiorno

Always this

In space, no one can hear you Teams

Applications for the Lyra McKee Bursary Scheme 2026 close on April 6. It has the aim to "train and mentor people from underrepresented backgrounds" (UK and Ireland residents). tcij.org/initiative/l...

Stepped onto a crowded train in Nice this morning and a kid says to his father "Tá go leor daoine saibhre ar an traein seo!" (Tbf he was right, it was heading to Monaco.) The look on his face when I said "Nílim saibhir ar chor ar bith!" was classic.

bsky.app/profile/bezz... this is the other half of my humor

It is 2026 and there are still Biden fanboys defending his role in the character assassination of Anita Hill which put Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court 🤷‍♀️

One of those self-driving trucks I guess...

Halfway through my week in Nice and I think I have consumed my weight in cheese and limoncello

And making an animal welfare “joke” at the same time.

The UK Gov: Trans people don't exist, they're all autistic. Also the UK Gov: autistic people don't exist, they're all lazy.

Sam Alito asking an extended hypothetical question about whether members of an Iranian sleeper cell would get U.S. citizenship is only lending further support to my theory that season 5 of '24' pickled the brains of an entire generation of Republican voters

Dumb and wrong

Wang now talking about comments senators made during the debates which strongly made clear that they were fully agreeing to adopt birthright citizenship. She brings in the Know-Nothing party, talking about how they were vehemently opposed to Irish immigration, but even they agreed on birthright.

51/ just want to point out how cool it is that Cecilia Wang, a birthright citizen born to Taiwanese immigrant parents, is now defending Wong Kim Ark within days of its 128th anniversary

Donald Trump showing up to witness perhaps the worst performance in the history of the US government defending its own case before the Supreme Court is going to be our generation’s version of Hitler hosting the Olympics in Berlin only to watch Jesse Owens smoke the entire German team

New way to say “your argument is novel” just dropped

“Having said that, you do agree that that has no impact on the legal analysis before us?” LOLOLOL

Listening to the oral arguments in the US birthright citizenship case and it’s striking how much emphasis is being put on the fact of borders being an extremely recent invention

We’re just innocent men

i appear to have asked a question akin to "how do Rebel Alliance schoolteachers feel about Darth Vader?"

A children's cartoon depicts him being chased by wolves off a cliff to his death. It's a happy ending

*screaming wildly* AND WHOS BEEN IN GOVERNMENT SINCE THE 1920'S EH BILLY BOY??!!

In Kurdish, the word for a hedgehog, zûbawer, translates literally to “ouch mouse”

This is a must-read for multiple reasons #speirghorm

The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today. Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere. Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.

Pope looking at the Excommunication Button like

You don't need flavored coffee. It already has a flavor. Coffee.

Mamdani is getting allergy shots so he and his wife, Rama, can get a cat.

Catherine Connolly announces Councll of State nominees: Fionnuala Ní Aoláin (QUB lawyer) Linda Ervine (Unionist Gaeilge advocate) Colin Harvey (QUB human rights) Kathleen Lynch (UCD sociology) Donncha O’Connell (Uni Galway law) Conor O’Mahony (UCC law) Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh (former pres Uni Galway)

Playground for Cork men in Nice! (IYKYK) #speirghorm

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Buddy & Holly 💛 14 year old bonded Yorkies looking for a calm, loving home to spend their golden years. Gentle, affectionate & happiest by your side 🐾 We really hope they are adopted together! Read more below 👇🐕 #dogrescue #doglovers

And look, this is just one of the many nested lies in this Russian doll of a fallacious statement, but birthright citizenship is the norm across basically the entire American continent. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli

Always enjoyed Salem's Lot, but never understood why the two non-plussed chickens at the top of the poster failed to appear

Someone in or near NY needs to take in this lovely boy! LOOK AT HIM

Re. Israel bringing back the death penalty but only for Palestinians: Not even Apartheid era South Africa did this. There was a massively skewed rate of who *was* executed by the state, iirc Black people were 95% of executions, but it still didn't apply to only Black South Africans.

"Ireland’s performance in protecting rule of law is “stagnating”, with persistent failures to implement key EU recommendations & concerning legislative proposals raising alarm in civil society, per new report... by Brussels-based human rights watchdog Liberties www.irishlegal.com/articles/ire...

Stop scrolling & post two characters who bring you happiness

UNICEF says 20% of Lebanon’s population displaced in just three weeks, including 19,000 children forced to flee their homes every single day.

The Knesset passed a bill today mandating the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of terror - but not for Jews. There is a word for a legal system where different legal standards apply to different categories of people. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Caster Semenya is mounting a class action lawsuit against the Olympics for their patently discriminatory ban on trans and intersex athletes

Police raids harm victims of sex trafficking more than they help. Sex work should be decriminalized. The Nordic model doesn't work.

I choose to believe this demand is from the chickens themselves 🐔

Checking into our hotel in Nice, guy at the front desk tells us about how he lived two years in Ireland and then hands us over our room key

JK Rowling when the mould tells her to post something transphobic

🇮🇪 Huge congratulations to Aoibhe Brennan who has been called up to the Ireland senior international squad for the upcoming World Cup qualifying doubleheader against Poland.

CJEU, new case Consumer law: can a woman sue for damages under the EU product liability directive due to a defective contraceptive coil, if this led to loss of earnings due to pregnancy? eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...

A very timely piece in today’s Guardian, on attacks on lawyers, judges and the rule of law. Tomorrow in my presentation at the SLSA, I will be talking about the UK government’s framing of UK immigration lawyers and the threat it poses to the Rule of Law. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...