The High Court has blocked a legal challenge from transphobic group Sex Matters, siding with thousands of swimmers who fought to keep the ponds inclusive goodlawproject.org/hampstead-he...

open.substack.com/pub/livelaug... Wrote about Legal Observers and their vital contribution; and how you can get involved.

I needn't have been upset about my new chair arriving and the anticipatory grief because not only has my old chair not been taken away yet but the new one is broken :) I love when the health system is reliable

The Dáil is currently debating our motion calling for an emergency winter payment of €400 for disabled people. This is the minimum they deserve from this govt until such a time that a permanent cost of disability payment is introduced. @liamquaidetd.bsky.social @eoinhayestd.bsky.social

I've been struggling with leaving my house lately. Thankfully I have mandatory dinners to help me get over it

I realise Laoise de Brún is an easy go-to for MSM journalists writing about trans people but given her history of not knowing Ireland is bound by EU law in this area, maybe she shouldn’t be your only legal source

I don't know how we can move forward as a society while judges like this have such power to hold us back.

I and others who are lucky enough to have jobs and be able to work, work to pay for additional costs and thus have limited incomes. Meanwhile the inaccessibility of society in all its forms remains, we don’t qualify for so many things because we are working - all while our costs are not recognised.

Twitter @ me because disability advocacy isn't viable on Bluesky yet

Oh are we doing that whole bit again where we pretend Brianna Ghey died because of social media rather than because of the people who stabbed her 28 times.

Ian Somerhalder and William Shatner charging the same price at comic con doesn't sit right with me

the perennial "is this a good replacement for twitter / can it become as big as twitter" discussion is so confused. hominids became bipedal about 7 million years ago. for most of the time since we did not have microblogging. it's not a necessity it's a habit, if it all goes away that's fine

The deplatforming of the Molly Russell Foundation, whose raison d'etre is the harms done by social media, but which inconveniently opposes a ban, has been an especially illuminating feature of this 'debate'. The media is not interested in what experts think. It just wants voices who agree with it.

Reminder that Blue Monday isn't a real phenomenon, it was made up by the boyband Blue in 2002 to make me wanna call you in the middle of the night, make me wanna hold you 'til the morning light, make me wanna love, make me wanna fall, make me wanna surrender my soul

Always struck by how accessible the CCJ is compared to the four courts. By no means perfect, but 100x better

Husband just asked how old that school gate haunter is and just realized I have no idea. Surely no older than 35?

I'm giving an alumni talk in my old college next week so I'm plotting out the things I've done since I've left.... it's been a busy 8 years

Tough ol' time for art sales of late and I depend solely on it for a living, so if you like anything I do, I'd appreciate if you'd keep me in mind when buying gifts for friends or family. If you hate what I do, I'd appreciate if you'd keep me in mind when buying gifts for enemies or nemeses.

Doing a big event today and I will be honest it never gets easier. Telling myself that nerves mean you care

An unannounced inspection of Mountjoy Prison found that inmates were being subjected to “degrading treatment” in conditions that did not meet minimum human rights standards, according to a report published today. jrnl.ie/6928198

Again, I refer to my post where I write about the Attorney General’s paper where he defined the “public interest” as meaning what the Government wants to spend money on. This is the return of the Royal Prerogative to Irish law, not seen since the Irish Supreme Court killed it in the 1960s.

"People guessed around 43.8% of people born outside of Ireland were availing of social housing compared to the real figure of 6.1%." www.thejournal.ie/immigration-...

Feel bad for my two token straight male friends for being replaced in my heart with Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie

Going through weird anticipatory grief that is unique to being a wheelchair user. Tomorrow I'm hopefully getting the all clear to use my manual wheelchair w power assist full time; bringing my era as a powerchair user to a close.

Lily Allen’s West End Girl but it’s The Wild Rover

Could someone please tell the subs in @irishexaminer.bsky.social please that the term "wheelchair-bound" has long been consigned to history, and for good reason? It's archaic, abelist terminology that has no place in a modern publication. www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/ar...?

“So now you have the Gardaí, the AI Minister and multiple legal experts including @iccl.bsky.social saying the legislation is all there already - it’s going to be increasingly difficult for the Government not to take a position on this”.

The judge who this week said cyclists had “become a nightmare” had a judgment quashed by the High Court because he interrupted a barrister more than 2,000 times. A senior judge also barred justice James O’Donohoe from any further involvement in the case. www.ontheditch.com/judge-critic...

Telling the government my new home is going to be a data centre so they'll build it for me

🚨 Breaking Gardaí say investigations are underway following Grok scandal. "We have received reports and referrals of content on that platform that is under investigation... the process takes some time... it has to be assessed to make sure it's criminal... the people responsible have to be ID'd"

Dublin Comic Con is having loads of RDR2 voice actors and I have to be in college. Bought my husband tickets with tears in my eyes

All of my sleep issues have subsided since I started working on my silly little projects so I actually am allergic to taking a break

Irish Government celebrating the fact that the ECHR has been translated into Irish weeks after the Minister for Justice joined with certain other states in seeking to diminish the level of protection afforded by particular ECHR rights. You couldn’t make it up! #ECHR

Lowkey an insane request. How can the minister possibly know? 😵

The chair of the Legal Aid Board has just told a FLAC conference that the government is refusing to properly fund the Board to deal with the asylum process under the new Pact, and that it's at risk of driving "an organisation in perpetual crisis to actual collapse" #speirghorm

Got my phone replaced and have just decided not to install the cursed app

New to #Bluesky? Here's a starter pack for Publishers of Books on the Island of Ireland #BookSky go.bsky.app/GS15SpY

Despite the headline, most of this article is not about fear of being shot but about fear of being detained and then deported Which undocumented people in Ireland also have www.independent.ie/world-news/e...

So, is the Minister a liar, or merely incompetent? If he knew, then he lied. If he didn't know, then his special advisor and press secretary approved this without his knowledge (which also raises the question as to their competence!) www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/movi...

Because Fine Gael were very, very able to make glossy videos about protecting kids online before - and the Government it belongs to has spent the week flustered not able to say exactly why it's not doing anything about real world harms happening on a site with a European HQ here. (2/2)

I find it so interesting that Ireland is exploring Assisted Dying legislation when two thirds of physicians won't tell people they're dying. How do you go from 0-100 on a culture of not talking to being completely comfortable telling vulnerable people that their lives aren't worth living?

I feel like there's a global fatigue for *gestures at everything* and I'd just like to point out that that is by design. They want us too drained to engage. For 2026, allow yourself to find strength in your communities to keep going.

Every hour between Monday and Tuesday, Twitter generated 6,700 sexual deepfake images. Experts say it has become the biggest online factory of such material in the world. This was a trend once on the darkest corners of the web - now pushed by a billionaire into the mainstream.

Things stepping up. ICCL and Digital Rights Ireland have written to the Garda Commissioner calling for an urgent investigation of X.

It is important for me to have balance in my life so for every section of law notes I get done I get to watch 5 minutes of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. Follow for more productivity hacks

A privilege to be included, available in print or at the link below! ✨ m.independent.ie/life/60-risi...

A nice reflection to end the year, and a call to action to those with the power to be more intentional about disabled inclusion in 2026. livelaughlegal.substack.com/p/reflection...

there are many horrible brainworms you can catch online but none of them are as all-encompassing in their destruction of you as a human being as transphobia start down that road and you become incapable of normal human interaction

My twitter won't log in on my new phone so it looks like I'm migrating to BS full time by force

And yes, the Court isn’t an instrument that tramples member-states and demands drastic compliance - it is very much deferential and reluctant to change course (see: refusal to re-open Ireland v UK). We should demand more of the Court, not less from member-states’ obligations under the Convention.