Sometimes I genuinely feel like I am a woman with a fork in a world where it rains soup, and never more so when, the week its former leader is convicted of multiple sexual offences against children, I see multiple members of that party on the front of every paper saying "we knew he was a creep!!"

A joy to lead the Non-Fatal Strangulation research project with ten committed, passionate, and now award-winning students from the School of HAPP. All ten are currently undertaking the MA in Conflict Transformation and Social Justice. @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

Delighted to publish my article on Shamima Begum with @ifjpglobal.bsky.social (who are absolutely wonderful). “The consequences of your actions”: political apology and the “mommy myth” as discursive punishment in the Shamima Begum case www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thanks to all who joined us this evening at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social at ‘The democratic impact of social media abuse towards women in politics’ panel discussion as part of the @imaginebelfast.bsky.social with Nóirín O’Sullivan, Cara Hunter MLA, Hannah Philips and @aishlingmcmorrow.bsky.social

Join us for a panel on 'The democratic impact of social media abuse towards women in politics’ as part of the @imaginebelfast.bsky.social programme, at 6pm on Wednesday 25th March 2026, in the Canada Room, @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social. Tickets available here 👉 imaginebelfast.com/event/the-de...

NEW from me for @chmenap.bsky.social: Syria's Kurds suffered a dramatic setback over the past month, but the response from ordinary Kurds and their leaders was remarkable as cross-border solidarity skyrocketed. www.chathamhouse.org/2026/02/what...

It’s Friday. May I be blunt? F*ck this. www.bbc.com/news/article...

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

Trump's "medical advice" ties into a long history of mother blame and boosts the political capital of a presidency based on misogyny. My short piece for QPol: @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

Even Jane Austen had to put up with Those Guys www.ft.com/content/bdcd...

I don't care whether it works or how it works. The reason AI is bad is because it's environmentally ruinous, socially devastating, and being pushed on us without consent by the worst people in the world.

When you're writing about Irish myth and folklore and a hare runs across your path. Okay then. If you know, you know.

Cork camogie player Ashling Thompson has said Cork will wear shorts in Saturday's Munster senior camogie final and if they are asked to change to skorts they will refuse to do so, even if it risks the game being abandoned.

I have a very personal essay in today’s Irish Times about the grandfather I never met, the historian KH Connell www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Great to talk to @kurtisreid.bsky.social of the @belfasttelegraph.co.uk about how deeply embedded violent misogyny is in society.

Poetry is an ever-evolving medium—and over the past 25 years, authors have pursued astonishing new forms and reinvented old ones. The Atlantic’s editors compiled the best American poetry collections from the 21st century: theatln.tc/IdlTsUZQ

I wrote a piece on how we need to call violent misogyny exactly what it is: an extremist ideology that is already present and operating in society.

There remain questions about how authorities in both Ireland and the UK handled the events around the 1998 bombing that killed 29 people.

As Biden's presidency comes to an end, his track record is underwhelming—littered with missed opportunities to support Kurds and Kurdish issues, Winthrop Rodgers writes.

I have a piece in today’s Guardian based on my book in which I argue for an expanded, more inclusive definition of multiculturalism as a way out of the culture wars www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Mc Morrow High Cross, 1923.