Want to do a PhD in social security/welfare law and policy? I have ideas, and we have a Doctoral Scholarship at the School of Law & Criminology at Maynooth University. The deadline is June 9th, and it is €25,000 per year (x4) plus fee waiver. www.maynoothuniversity.ie/sites/defaul...

I see Peadar Tóibín is now on a rant about people with Stamp 1 and 1G permissions having too many rights. To clarify, these are people whose presence in the State is ENTIRELY LAWFUL, often based on doing work in an area with a labour shortage, and reckonable for naturalisation purposes.

Next AISSN webinar - 11th May, 1pm Dr Barra Roantree (TCD) and Prof Stephen Sinclair, (Poverty and Inequality in Scotland). Examines cash transfers to children (proposal for a means-tested second-tier of child benefit in ROI and Scottish Child Payment) www.eventbrite.com/e/cash-trans...

1 May Across the world workers will celebrate victories, stand together against attacks on workers' , people's right, resist attacks on public services and join in action for social justice, democracy and anti-fascist societies With @social.verdi.de @dgbbbr.bsky.social in Berlin @epsu.bsky.social

These numbers should be amplified everywhere there is a flat surface. The 3,000 person sample size was statistically significant. The direction of travel is positive but runs directly contrary to the perception born in the echo-chamber of Twitter-brained media and politics. (H&CC is a client)

The €2m Mr Higgins gifted back to the State comprised of €1,310,491 in Oireachtas and Ministerial pensions and €689,474 in pay over the last 14 years www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...

This is a really good and needed measure, and you’d think universally supported, but a few years back I did a fundraiser for a DV shelter and I had a woman drop in to my work to tell me I was wrong to do it because “they get everything, they have enough”.

Hmm. Have previous presidents been “virtue signalling” when carrying out their (checks notes) constitutional function. m.independent.ie/opinion/anal... What would the headlines have been if she had referred it to the Supreme Court and it had been deemed unconstitutional? Or not?

The Socialist Lawyers’ Association of Ireland has issued a statement on the upcoming event at The Bar of Ireland. We support the right to legal representation and fair trial. Always. But public legal discourse must not minimise harm or sideline victims. How we talk about justice matters.

This is a really funny way of saying “The President exercised her constitutional role in line with the Constitution just like other Presidents before her”. m.independent.ie/opinion/anal...

Very productive few days with the SWINS team in Budapest

Insurance research 📢 We want to know whether community organisations, local authorities and businesses have been encountering issues in insuring their cross-border activities. Are you happy with your insurance? Any issues with claims? Cross-border restrictions? docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A reminder of the Centre for Criminology Maynooth panel disucssion taking place tomorrow! Few tickets remaining, secure your spot at the link below: www.eventbrite.ie/e/policing-t...

And the 'protestors' are coordinating in their WhatsApp groups to ensure that housebound people in their areas aren't stuck for heating and food right?

Presumably there will be a package of reliefs for people who are out of pocket from booking hotels and transport and other costs to attend these ceremonies right? And the protesters will support this because those are mostly working people right?

While many protesters in Ireland are complaining about fuel costs, far-right actors and international figures are using the movement to push anti-immigrant narratives.

I really do believe this is true. I'm sure that not everybody who turned up to protest has fascist leanings, but if you pulled your truck up next to one that said "Ireland for the Irish" and you don't leave, are you better than the owner of that truck?

Jim O’Callaghan

The irony of Jim O’Callaghan having to announce he’s calling the army in to break up a protest filled with the people whose racism he has been assiduously courting and pandering to since taking office.

You can probably support the working class and demand support for people who are struggling because of capitalist inequality and also not pretend massively bigoted rhetoric and action isn't happening or being Trojan-horsed in under the guise of taking down those in power, by the way. Just a thought.

The farmer at Conways Farm is a great supporter of misogynistic fascist Duffy. Yeah, not great advertising for his products nor reputation to be honest 🤢

Very happy to donate to the Muslim Sisters of Éire who feed the unhoused week in week out. Only takes a minute msoe.ie/donate/

There is not a snowball’s chance in hell of any of these payments actually helping ordinary people with the cost of living, but they will embolden the company owners to demand even further concessions to line their own pockets. Slow clap to everyone who scolded the left for not supporting them

When protesters tried to block Dublin Port at a march for Gaza they were arrested like five seconds later.

“The government’s approach, for a very long time, has been to project powerlessness in the face of every inconvenience, to blame ‘global megatrends’ as Varadkar did in his goodbye speech. To make the public feel insane for even suggesting that the government can solve problems.” This week’s column!

I don't know if you've ever sat waiting for emergency services but I have. Once for ambulance, once for fire. Every minute feels like an hour. The fact that those services won't arrive in time (or at all) for some people because of some goons in tractors is beyond disgraceful.

They attacked the Muslim Sisters of Éire, one of the kindest and mostly welcoming groups out on the streets of Dublin providing meals to the unhoused. Fuck every single one of these rat fucks.

We in the All-Island Social Security Network (AISSN) are hosting a lunchtime webinar series on child poverty starting next Wednesday (April 16th) from 1-2pm Christine Ellison (JRF) and Louise Bayliss (SVP) will present on the NI and ROI perspectives www.eventbrite.com/e/child-pove...

Lads, these are petty-bourgeois business owners. They might talk as though they are working class, but they're literally sitting on hundreds of thousands of Euros of capital. You don't need to cosy up to them because they're claiming to be advocating for the poor, they're only out for themselves

If these were environmental protesters rather than the far-right, we know how quickly this would have been broken up

My favourite stage of any right-aligned movement is when the circle of men that inevitably position themselves in leading roles get even the most surface-level coverage of their backgrounds and immediately go "HERE WE GO THE MEDIA SMEARS AND LIES BEGIN" and it's just facts about their crimes

"Turns out students aren't great at asking questions well." No fucking shit. Literally any educator could tell you that. 90% of my job as a high school librarian is trying to figure out what kids actually want versus what question they asked.

“Sex testing has switched from genitals to genes to testosterone levels, and now back to genes. While the stated goal for these policies was to uncover males pretending to be female, they have never found any. Instead, they identified and excluded intersex women.” Sex testing in sport harms women.

They’d rather the country be poorer and whiter than rich and diverse. Of course when the pie shrinks, the rich will demand the same amount and will tell you the crumbs you’re left with are because of immigrants or trans people or DEI. bsky.app/profile/apne...

Let's cut to the chase. Striking miners picketing Orgreave coke works were attacked by a police army who clubbed unarmed men to the ground. Nonetheless, the miners fought back. The BBC, followed by the other TV channels, reversed the footage.

Plans to restrict judicial review in the name of speeding up infrastructure delivery will negatively impact cases concerning social welfare, social housing and education, according to FLAC. www.irishlegal.com/articles/fla...

I’ll be back in Ireland briefly over Easter and doing this event at Maynooth University. It appears to be open to anyone. @maynoothuniversity.ie

The fact that these two people who have broken the law repeatedly for nigh on two decades without apology and constantly dropping racist comments are getting so much attention is a sad indictment of the Irish media’s desire for a right-wing element.

This was our landlord in Dublin - they bought our entire housing estate in 2021, started ignoring our maintenance issues and we had to take them to the RTB to get our security deposit returned.

The CJEU has further clarified the concept of 'safe third countries' in EU asylum law Analysis of the judgment, by Tamta Gventsadze: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...

Embarrassed for the ancestors of all involved in this drivel

Dr Lynsey Black and Dr Niamh Keady-Tabbal, published a guest post on the Oxford Border Criminologies Blog entitled, Ireland’s Hidden Border Violence : restriction and uncertainty for racialised migrants and asylum seekers. See: tinyurl.com/z4ytyt44

New on the Social Policy Blog: "The Politics of Minimum Income Reform in Spain: Explaining an Unexpected and Consensus-Based Path Departure" by Llorenç Soler-Buades. socialpolicyblog.co.uk/2026/03/17/t...

This is good work from @ellenmcoyne.bsky.social and hopefully the start of the end of "The Countess" being taken seriously by the mainstream media

I've just signed the open letter, calling on Jim O'Callaghan to stand up for a fair immigration process that keeps people safe and keeps our families and communities whole. Will you add your name? action.uplift.ie/campaigns/in...

Jurgen Habermas, philosopher and German, European public intellectual has died, aged 96 (Spiegel) www.spiegel.de/kultur/philo...

fuck this so much we are so not prepared for the mountain of dogshit “scholarship” about to flood journals everywhere

I wonder what our history would have been had this criteria been applied to us in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Me revising an essay

This is so so upsetting. So Grammerly is violating the memory of bell hooks AND making AI versions of the rest of us before we're even dead. Someone tell me who to sue, not even joking.