🇪🇸 RTVE has shared the following message as the #Eurovision 2026 grand final began. The Spanish broadcaster has boycotted this year's edition and is not broadcasting tonight's show. More: www.rtve.es/noticias/202...

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Equity, inclusion, diversity - without those elements the law has little value for society.

"#Nakba: The black and white photo is Jordan in 1967 and the color is last year in Gaza. The refugee population of Palestine expects a fair solution to its situation for 78 years. It's time for you to have it."

Reminder that only 8% of law students are Black, and only 5% of lawyers are Black. Erasing diversity from law schools and their admission practices is exactly how we bring that number to 0.

The book was filmed as a mini-series which was a cultural touchstone when broadcast on Irish tv 50 years ago.

Félicien Kabuga, accused of bankrolling genocide in Rwanda, died in a hospital in The Hague on Saturday.

My husband volunteers at St Joseph’s Hospice in Hackney, and tomorrow he’s running the Hackney Half Marathon for them – on his 40th birthday! He’s ever so close to his fundraising target, in case anyone feels like chucking him a few quid. It’s a very good cause 💛 www.justgiving.com/page/mike-wi...

For you to understand how much the world has changed, in the 1970s as a second grader we were REQUIRED to watch the TV show adaptation of ROOTS. REQUIRED. www.knoxnews.com/story/news/e...

Asia's oldest living organism, the ancient Abarkuh cypress tree - at least 4500 years old - is rooted in land that was already known then as Iran.

Ruti Lachs is a great and highly musical guide to Cork's Jewish Cultural life and times. Strongly recommended. www.rutilachs.ie

Shona Murray: “… at no point has the EU moved to defend European citizens from specious accusations. This goes for the EU’s weak support of the institutions of criminal justice such as the International Criminal Court (ICC).” @shonamurray.bsky.social

Our government lectured others about their responsibilities under international law but then remembered how much they and their pals here like money. Adults in the room etc. #OTB www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

London: "Specialist officers are also primed to take swift decisions to arrest and charge hate speech crimes, which may include arrests for chants referring to "intifada" at the pro-Palestinian march." www.bbc.com/news/article...

I think the Gardaí need to examine how cyclists trying to make reports are dealt with. In my experience the whole thing varies wildly depending on the individual garda and their interpretation of how the law works. Also you need video footage for the most part.

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Many notes. #Barracka

Beautiful aurora on the SFO-DUB flight last night. Everyone else sleeping. I decided to see where we were, not thinking it would be dark enough for an aurora or that we'd have a decent one, and wow. I missed getting the initial massive curving arcs over the plane. Very very active.

The story of Hind Rajab

Talking about the book in Dublin this Wednesday at @ilfdublin.bsky.social : ilfdublin.com/whats-on/fes...

UN Special Rapporteur, OCT - Legal Expert & Scholar - Francesca Albanese “Palestine is a reality of a brutality of an injustice that once you see it, you cannot unsee.” “Today the world is divided into two. Those who believe Israel’s lies & those who don’t.” youtube.com/watch?v=Rx65...

Local saint St. Brendan's feast day today, so here's an illustrated line from the Prayer Of St. Brendan The Navigator, who is said to have travelled from Kerry in Ireland to America a thousand years before Columbus made his journey. Trust in the darkness. Prints: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...

This is a dark day for the environmental movement. In one of most regressive moves I've seen by this Government, they are effectively shutting down the majority of environmental public interest litigation. Over 1400 people told them not to do this. Did they listen? Of course not.

Here is an explainer for what they've just done. We described it then as one of the biggest threats to environmental protection that we have ever faced. Now it has come to pass www.antaisce.org/news/all-han...

What I have learned over the last ten years is that public consultations largely means nothing. The decisions are already made. Now they are blocking the ability to challenge the decisions too. They can’t play by the rules so they change them instead. Crafty bunch.

We are doing two thirds fewer breath tests than we did 15 years ago, despite having nearly a million more drivers on the road. The results are exactly what you'd expect, writes our resident motoring expert Paddy Comyn. jrnl.ie/7040953

Not only am I proud to be on the panel for the launch, but I also encourage everyone to come out and enjoy these family-friendly Africa Day celebrations in Cork from 19th to 23rd of May.

The Silk Road Café at Dublin Castle was preparing to celebrate its 25th anniversary when it was informed that it would have to close for the six months of Ireland’s EU presidency. jrnl.ie/7037559

#OtD 16 May 1920 workers at Knocklong creamery in County Limerick declared a soviet and established workers' control of production. They hoisted a red flag and a tricolour and for 5 days ran it with the slogan "We make butter not profits" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8816...

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New lesson on speaking your mind.

Anyone know what this bird is? @captainlibatron.bsky.social

Diversity. Equity. Inclusion.

Judge Charlesworth begins at 40 mins.

Shona Murray: “… at no point has the EU moved to defend European citizens from specious accusations. This goes for the EU’s weak support of the institutions of criminal justice such as the International Criminal Court (ICC).” @shonamurray.bsky.social

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

England: A neo-Nazi obsessed teenager who tried to behead a Kurdish barber with an axe because she wanted to “kill all Jews and Muslims” has been jailed for more than 15 years.

The sooner Ireland and the EU end all economic & political relations with this terrorist state, the better. Kudos to Haaretz, a rare voice of truth, for reporting on Gestapo-style Israeli policing.

“Most people in Ireland cannot achieve the recommended daily amount of physical activity as roads and streets are too dangerous and hostile for walking, cycling, wheeling and play,” - Dr Caoimhe Clarke SVUH Dublin

BREAKING: SCOTUS denies Virginia Democrats' request to block the Virginia Supreme Court ruling tossing out the redistricting referendum. There are no noted dissents and no opinion.

Human Rights Watch sought information about the licensing and exports of such technology through freedom of information requests in each of the 27 EU member states and received data from nearly half of the EU countries that have sent data to the commission.

In a new report, HRW finds that the implementation and oversight of the EU regulatory framework governing export of surveillance technologies has serious flaws, resulting in the tech being sold to those who have previously used it in violation of international human rights and humanitarian law. 🧵⤵️

American actor Hannah Einbinder on supporting Palestinians: “I am under no impression that my one small career could ever measure up in comparison to even one human life.”

Major news! A state court in Kansas has just blocked the states gender affirming care ban! Nobody is at our desk right now so we can’t draft up a story but you all deserve to know this incredible news. assets.aclu.org/live/uploads...

After Israel began expunging humanitarian organizations in Gaza for failing to comply with new rules, a Doctors Without Borders team was left scrambling to establish a permanent clinic. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/huUHZP

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