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.

Every Irish Erasmus student returning home from France with some notions is apparently in the IRA

At a time when some people are losing their jobs over delays in the system for renewing immigration permissions, and others are waiting years for a decision on their application, Lawless wants DoJ to put resources into spying on foreign students’ employment #speirghorm archive.ph/2026.03.05-1...

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

I might be naive, but a headline featuring a Minister saying "my job is not to be sensitive", above a caption featuring a "mother of explosion victim" is not a very good look

I am ashamed of my country's recent shameless pandering to the far right. As well as the increase in deportations, many decent, hardworking people who have been here for years have been left waiting for months for renewal of their existing permits to live & work here.

The level of delusion, and lack of understanding of law/context this requires www.thejournal.ie/covid-compen...

He's lost his mind, again. He's actually saying that solicitors appear in court and adjourn matters unnecessarily to get more money? Aside from the professional insult involved, do you know how much money each additional day in court is? No? It's €50. That's it. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

Not uncommon, @sundersays.bsky.social. See "Journal of Politics", Volume 85, Number 1, January 2023, doi.org/10.1086/722042

France and Spain voted against the changes to EU law on 'safe third countries' - very critical statements from both countries here: data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document...

One of the identified risks is, unsurprisingly, the government’s proposal to limit judicial reviews. #speirghorm

Jim O'Callaghan scapegoating immigrants and acting tough on immigration as part of his bid for the leadership of Fianna Fáil is directly comparable to Leo Varadkar scapegoating welfare recipients as part of his bid for the leadership of Fine Gael. Neither of them concerned about the consequences.

The Legal Aid Board is going to collapse in 2026. Jim O'Callaghan's focus, meanwhile, is on filming deportation flights and attacking the concept of Judicial Review.

I have a piece in Today's @irishexaminer on some major problems with the Garda Powers Bill An Garda Síochána has routinely denied it racially profiles – & repudiate evidence of racial profiling by denying there's data This Bill fails to get that data www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

What a cruel slap in the face to the thousands of refugees who already applied for citizenship and have been told just this week of a retroactive change of policy which means they are not yet eligible. #speirghorm

‘The Department of Justice spokesperson said having people wait longer means they forge a stronger connection with the country “demonstrated over time”.’ The proposal to fast track applications for people who join the military shows what patent bullshit that is.

The absolute shame of a Cork person describing the UK as "our great country." Fascinating, too, to so blithely erase your own immigrant positionality while spearheading anti-immigrant rhetoric and policy. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Solidarity with @unison.org.uk workers at the University of Bristol who are striking against a 3.4% real terms pay cut. Since 2009 higher education pay has lost around 28% of its value. It's time for University workers to be paid fairly.

Scrapping REF should be “serious’ option”, says Manchester VC. Duncan Ivison questions “usefulness” of “massive, bureaucratic” research assessment exercise. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

The Ministry of Justice has ordered the deletion of the UK’s largest court reporting archive. This risks undermining open justice, and I believe, undermines the public accountability role of the press by making it harder to see what is going on in the courts. www.thetimes.com/article/77b0...

A lot of our political discourse would be easier if we didn't extend good faith to people who would never extend it back.

Results of the 20th Quarterly Survey on the Conditions for North-South & East-West Cooperation October-December 2025 have been published. The report and presentation can be accessed at crossborder.ie/reports/brie... @benrosher.bsky.social, @anthonysoares.bsky.social & Aidan Campbell #research

Gentle reminder that this is happening on Monday

Guess what the evidence shows? Disabled people pushed into deeper poverty are pushed *further from, not into, the workplace*. NEW REPORT, PACKED WITH EVIDENCE from community organisations. www.citizensadviceyork.org.uk/wp-content/u...

…a key point… “mutual trust” must not become a channel for a proliferation of rights violations in eu territory…

my dad didn’t go to university and he was extremely happy to pay taxes for his four children to do so; and, indeed, for the doctors who treated him at Addenbrookes to have gone to university as well.

We’re kicking off our 2026 lunchtime webinars for the All-Island Social Security Network on Feb 9th (1-2pm) where we’ll have researchers from @ulsteruni.bsky.social discussing the Defective Concrete Crisis www.eventbrite.ie/e/all-island...

New on the Social Policy Blog: “What can we learn from pension reforms in Latin America and Southern Europe?” by Marina Angelaki and Leandro Nicolas Carrera. socialpolicyblog.co.uk/2026/01/29/w...

The one conservative joke is "I identify as an attack helicopter," while the one liberal joke is "lol these guys are homogays who suck cock because they're gay"

Not at all surprised an Irish jury acquitted But the perversions of the concept of discretion used by the defence & some of the Garda witnesses were breathtaking, to say the least And the DPP seemed uninterested or incapable of challenging them www.rte.ie/news/2026/01...

As this research comes to fruition, you can now visit our project website where you'll find a short film, our photo, art and writing galleries and a link our community artefact. sites.google.com/view/yup-the...

"What's being done here is the biggest restriction on the right to access judicial review in the history of the State. It's incredibly worrying. "Rights are completely useless unless you can enforce them." - Cathal Malone BL @cathalmalone.bsky.social #JudicialReview #RightsSchmites

Job opportunity - we need a fab new colleague to do quant research on work, welfare and mental health within @kingscsmh.bsky.social (closes 8 Feb) This is funded until Apr/28, but we'll support you in bids to extend it - please do circulate to suitable ppl! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQD294/p...

"The Government is talking out of both sides of its mouth, invoking human rights when it helps their argument, but undermining them when they become inconvenient." SocDems' Patricia Stephenson says any move away by Ireland from the ECHR would be reckless... jrnl.ie/6927673