The Silk Road Café is a place our family goes to nearly every Sunday. Lovely, kind staff & one of the few spots in the city centre that's a welcoming place for babies & kids. The place is a core part of Dublin's cosmopolitan life. Appalling to treat them like this. www.thejournal.ie/silk-road-ca...

Same with turf. The blue-greens never understood that the whole point of turf-cutting and access to the bog was to be energy sufficient in a context of the remaining tree cover on the island being privately owned by the Big House. What was offered in place had to be a form of energy sovereignty.

An important argument from @sineadmercier.bsky.social about the ways in which the "Ireland should have nuclear" discourse is a classic case of structured climate delayism www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

"Renewed talk of nuclear power is a ‘distraction tactic’" Great perspectives from @sineadmercier.bsky.social! www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Still time to register for this morning's webinar! #datacentres #sustainableenergy #climateaction

A real pleasure, as always, to attend the annual Law & Environment Conference at @lawucc.bsky.social - it's the highlight of Ireland's environment and climate law and policy social calendar. Congratulations to Owen again for a wonderful event. Honoured to have been part of this panel.

So kind Aoife, thank you. Thank you too to @ancloganmag.bsky.social for publishing the original and kindly allowing the repost. I feel very lucky to have had a place to write about Irish republicanism, constitutional theory, ecofeminism, David Graeber & Irish myth all at once! #TheMorrigan is right!

My latest column: Ireland’s data centre policy will drive significantly greater fossil fuel use, contradicting multiple statutory and policy targets which require rapid reductions instead. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Save 30% on #NewBook "Wild Tides" by Patrick Brodie, which traces Ireland’s shift from reckless pre-2008 real estate development to a post-crisis investment in media infrastructure, revealing how financialization alters the daily life of a nation. buff.ly/NVSBjbJ

Underrated that the era of neoliberal globalism characterized by fierce defense of intellectual property as rents, patents, and copyrights gave way so quickly to a new paradigm marked by the blithe plunder of all human creativity for LLM training data.

Happy St Patrick's Day ☘️ A great day to celebrate being green. Why not take a moment to enjoy the tiny natural wonders that surround us. They make our world infinitely better in ways we probably don't even realise. #StPatricksDay #SaveThePlanet #ClimateAction

Ireland's new fossil-fuelled #Petrotech data center will increase Ireland's **total** (everything, not just the power sector) emissions by ~1% Absolutely nuts. A 1% national increase - for what? Come on boosters, explain why this is worth it 🫠 www.linkedin.com/posts/bgamaz...

Globally, mycorrhizal fungal communities move roughly a billion tons of carbon per year into Earth's soils, above all in old-growth forests. Wild, natural ecosystems are the bedrock of a healthy planet. It's time we started recognising and acting on that. share.google/afcBcyPH7lVc...

Feeling like King Canute

Did you know that homes pay twice as much for electricity as data centers do? It's good that that government are helping out the poor scrappy start ups like Amazon and Google 🥹 m.independent.ie/business/per...

Very good piece by Dr Cian Ó Concubhair on the new Garda powers bill - interestingly, when the Commission on the Future of Policing recommended codification of these powers it did so thinking the preparatory work would be done by the Law Reform Commission www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

The issue remains though. There should be no corporations given seaweed harvesting rights in Ireland my.uplift.ie/petitions/st...

overjoyed to see that government has decided to publish a massive amount of its new energy legislation in the final month of my energy law phd. words cannot describe.

Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert and the band or artist.

We will either end fossil fuel dependency and the predatory extractivist basis of global production, or they will end us through wars and ecological collapse - all at the same time.

Do the people who are keen to point out Maduro is a bad guy think Trump wouldn't do this to a good guy?

📣Book Review Forum: Landscape, Law and Justice - 20 Years (eds. Jones, Strecker, Setten & Mitchell) by Michael Jones, @amandabyer.bsky.social, Benedetta Castiglioni, @sonyacotton.bsky.social, Luca Muscarà, Amy Stecker, Gunhild Setten & Don Mitchell www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Congratulations to the brilliant and lovely Dr. Raphael Ng'etich - watch this space he's already making waves! 🌳🍃🌊 His research is fascinating.

'What we too rarely notice is how our legal education shapes the very categories through which we think. The result is not only that we produce different answers to similar questions, but that we often do not ask the same questions at all.' british-association-comparative-law.org/2025/11/28/r...

"I never imagined a human being created by God would do this." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Looking forward to facilitating this discussion on the launch of Patrick Bresnihan and Pat Brodie's fascinating new book 'From the Bog to the Cloud'. This evening at TU Dublin, 6:30-8pm. See you there!

A beautiful heartfelt essay by my mom Anne Gately Mercier aired on RTE's Sunday Miscellany last weekend. Outing the family as turf-cutters - but change is afoot where we once footed turf. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

From the 1990 Presidential Election

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky. No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

We're hosting our final project event on 29 Sept. Land, Property and Spatial [In]Justice: Towards a Legal Geography of International Law W/ project team & stellar guest speakers who influenced us @amandabyer.bsky.social @sonyacotton.bsky.social @sineadmercier.bsky.social @elaj-ucd.bsky.social

Our first project PhD has officially graduated! Congratulations @sonyacotton.bsky.social for her research on the meaning of 'community' in international law, and its effects on legal standing + spatial justice in post-apartheid southern Africa! @amandabyer.bsky.social @sineadmercier.bsky.social

This is a small but significant win for Ireland. bsky.app/profile/were...

We’re thrilled that the @businesspost.bsky.social has published a major investigation based on findings from our @erc.europa.eu-funded project at @ucddublin.bsky.social. It shines a spotlight on how multinationals shift profits through Ireland. A thread👇 democracychallenged.com/2025/05/06/o...

Thinking about historical parallels. People talk about coups and autogolpes, the fascist seizure of power in the 1930s, and there are resemblances. But there are other models we could think about.

Some amazing maslaigh here for feminist reclamation. www3.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaeilge/focl...

The colour pink has been shown to shift our brains away from fight or flight & into rest & digest. Here are some botanical pinks to let your eyes pause on for a while in case your Monday has stress in it:

“Failure of a State to take appropriate action… including through fossil fuel production, fossil fuel consumption, the granting of fossil fuel exploration licences or the provision of fossil fuel subsidies — may constitute an internationally wrongful act which is attributable to that State.”

Time and politics are cyclical on this island.... www.bbc.com/news/uk-nort...

Re-learning from Auntie Audre and working to focus my rage with precision.

This day next week! We'll host a panel discussing the Central Bank's trading of Israel’s 'war bonds' Featuring: Senator @aliceeire.bsky.social , Helen Mahony @ipsc.bsky.social, Faten Sourani (Trócaire), John Reynolds (Maynooth Law) 📣Spread the word! www.financialjustice.ie/get-involved...

The most immediate way to revitalise the Irish language and stem the flow of young people from rural Ireland would be to ban Airbnb.

"The EU supplies at least a third of Israel’s arms imports and has its most comprehensive association agreement with the country. Conditional on respect for international law. If the political will exists, the EU has the means to act." - Josep Borrell, past EU Foreign Policy High Representative.

Does the popularity of Scandi girl style & hygge home decor reveal the people's desire for Folkhemmet? When democratic socialism is shut out from our everyday life - the workplace, politics, media - the longing for bread & roses finds expression in sheepskin throws & a classy mule/barrel jean combo.

It was wonderful to have the Property[in]Justice gals (including @sineadmercier.bsky.social and @amandabyer.bsky.social) together again. Thank you so much @owenmcintyre.bsky.social for this brilliant conference, very impressed that you even managed to make the weather amazing for the event.

Call for Papers: The Irish Political Constitution. Symposium date: Friday 28th November 2025, NUI Merrion Square. Deadline for Abstracts: 30 May 2025 We have an agreement in principle to publish a special issue of the Irish Jurist containing papers presented at the symposium

Choices in government.

A beautiful quote from Justine McCarthy in a beautiful paragraph in Diarmaid Ferriter's new book: "It is criticising that has brought about some of the most attractive features of modern Ireland" - bringing a little heart leap of hope for the future in these dark times ☀️