“My sense is that the Supreme Court has reigned in the High Court’s interpretation of Section 15 somewhat, but it’s clear that Section 15 still has a lot of bite,” - Dr Orla Kelleher @maynoothlaw.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

A team from @mupsychology.bsky.social — Prof Katriona O'Sullivan, Dr Siobhán Woods and Dr Laura Coffey — launched an evaluation report on a novel new programme run by the Beacon of Light Counselling Centre in Clondalkin in Dublin.

Met Éireann has issued a Status Orange rain warning for Dublin, Wicklow, and Louth, and a Status Yellow rain warning for Kildare and surrounding counties for tomorrow, Friday 6 February. Heavy rainfall may result in localised flooding, river flooding and difficult travel conditions.

Sport Ireland has recognised the high level of support provided to high-performing athletes at Maynooth University (MU), awarding it full Accreditation for Student Athlete Support (ASAS). www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...

The Just Housing research team of Paddy Bresnihan, Fiadh Tubridy and Kevin Credit have argued based on research, that numerous examples of poorly maintained homes have been reported, along with low numbers of A or B energy-rated rental homes. www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

A great win for our Senior Women today in the Kelly Cup QTR Final 👏👏 ATU Sligo - 1 MU - 4 Well done to all involved, onto the semi’s 🔜 @maynoothuniversity.ie @maynoothcao.bsky.social

*taps mic* And we're back... Start into a new semester with some black cat energy 🐈 #Seamus #LibraryCat #MaynoothUni #NewSemester

Our special bonus episode just dropped and I'm very happy to have been part of this recording with @davidstifter.bsky.social and @niamhwycherley.bsky.social. If you ever wanted to listen to some early Irish poetry and prose being read out loud in their original, here's your chance!

How Brigit continues to inspire poets, writers and artists 🎨 An Irish woman who has been dead for over 1,500 years continues to inspire extraordinary creative expression, write MU's Dr Niamh Wycherley, Prof David Stifter and Tiago de Oliveira Veloso Silva. www.maynoothuniversity.ie/research/spo...

Climate change made this week’s floods almost three times more likely to occur, analysis by Dr Claire Bergin and Lionel Swan of ICARUS and Met Éireann has found. 🌧️ www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Most read on #RTEBrainstorm: How the emergence of St Brigid's Day as a public holiday marks a renewed engagement with Indigenous Irish ways of understanding time, land and belonging. By Jennifer Manning @maynoothuniversity.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

📻Listen back: Dr Nick Scroxton from ICARUS discussed the current method of flood forecasting with Rachael English on RTÉ Radio 1's News At One. www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

February or March: when does spring really begin? The Celtic calendar says spring starts on February 1st, but climatologists are adamant it's March so @stalagnick.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @researchireland.ie finds out who's right www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Participants from Women’s Collective Ireland (WCI) Ronanstown, along with 319 Transition Year (TY) students from schools across Leinster, today graduated from the STEM Passport for Inclusion programme at MU. 🙌 @stempassport.bsky.social www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...

"If people experience mental health and/or substance use issues, but services cannot adequately respond, then they can find the symptoms of their illness and subsequent behaviour are being criminalised." - Dr Daniel McFadden, Applied Social Studies www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Will the real St Brigid please stand up? 👋 Here's the evidence which indicates that the Kildare woman was real - and why this is worth emphasising today, writes Dr Niamh Wycherley from the Dept of Early Irish (Sean-Ghaeilge). @ceilteachomn.bsky.social www.maynoothuniversity.ie/research/spo...

Why generational differences are a distraction in your workplace. The temptation to explain workplace challenges through generational narratives is understandable, but it may be misplaced, writes @marianchenry.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @researchireland.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

The problems with coining terms like 'rage bait' and 'brain rot'. The words, metaphors and ideas we use to describe experiences and phenomenons may not necessarily be able to explain them, writes @emmaefarrell.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Why an iconic World Cup stadium is causing controversy in Mexico City. Residents around the Azteca Stadium are unhappy about the impact the World Cup tournament will have on their community, writes David Conlon @maynoothuniversity.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

New research on how early baby black holes grew into supermassive giants just hundreds of millions of years after the Big Bang has been published in Nature Astronomy 🌌 @jameswebbdiscovery.com www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...

How did the US become the main threat to the future of NATO? As the United States moves away from NATO’s founding multilateral principles, the alliance faces a forced redefinition of its future strategy, writes Dr David Murphy from the Dept of History. www.maynoothuniversity.ie/research/spo...

Blue Monday is here 💙 If today feels a little gloomy, why not stop by and say hello to our emotional support cat? He’s ready to offer comfort, calm, and a few well-timed purrs 🐾🌈 #Positivievibes #bluemonday #librarycat #MUlibrary

📻Listen back: Dr. Philip Hyland @mupsychology.bsky.social spoke to David McCullagh about his study on how the grief following the death of a pet can be an intense as for a human loved one. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

A study authored by Prof Philip Hyland @mupsychology.bsky.social on how people grieve the loss of a pet. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

“We have ever-increasing evidence that Ireland’s climate is changing in pretty profound ways ... but there is a complete lack of political will to enact those solutions at the speed and scale required.” -Prof Peter Thorne, Icarus Climate Research Institute at MU www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

📻Listen back: Dr Emma Farrell from @mupsychology.bsky.social on RTÉ Radio 1 today with David McCullagh speaking about the association between technology and brain rot/rage bait (Oxford Dictionary’s words of the year for 2024 and 2025). www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

How did the US become the main threat to the future of NATO? America's departure from the multilateral principles that NATO was founded upon will force the organisation to redefine its future strategy, writes David Murphy @maynoothuniversity.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

🎧 New @arinsproject.bsky.social podcast! Prof Colin Graham & Drew Harris, OBE, QPM, ex-Garda Commissioner & PSNI Deputy Chief Constable discuss identity & leadership. Listen now on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts: linktr.ee/royalirishac... @ndirishstudies.bsky.social

Best of luck to all our students doing their exams this week🤞 Remember to take a nature break when you can 🌳 Throwback to last week's frosty Junior Garden on the South Campus ❄️ #MaynoothUni #StPatsCollege

Dr David Murphy from the Dept of History examines how Co Meath–born Sir William Johnson and his nephew, Guy Johnson, played important roles as British colonial administrators in the 18th century, especially in shaping relationships with Native Americans. www.maynoothuniversity.ie/research/spo...

Check out my new piece on RTE Brainstorm exploring the Civil War diaries of Sir Thomas Henry Grattan Esmonde, and what they reveal about politics, violence, and loss. www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2... @nlireland.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social

📻Listen back: Prof Mark Maguire, Department of Anthropology, joined fellow experts to discuss the area of emergency planning and how you can plan for and deal with an emergency. www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

The first all-island mental health collaborative research network – CO-PRIME – has been set up to help combat mental ill health in a more coordinated way right across Ireland and will be headed up by MU's Prof Sinead McGilloway. www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...

📣Minister for Mental Health Mary Butler has announced €3M for #mentalhealthresearch. HRB will award €1M to @maynoothuniversity.ie to establish a Collaborative Research Network in #MentalHealth & €2M to support 10 new mental health research projects. Read more: www.hrb.ie/hrb/minister...

Happy Little Christmas! While Nollaig na mBan is a relatively new* thing, the Feast of the Epiphany, January 6th, was known as Notlaic Becc ‘Little Christmas’ or Notlaic Stéille, ‘Christmas of the star’, in early Irish texts. It seems to have marked the end of the season, & 'back to work' time! 1/

Nollaig na mBan faoi mhaise dhaoibh. Happy Women’s Christmas from MU🎄 #nollagnambán #MaynoothUni 📸 from An Túr Gloine archive

Ice, accidentally extruded from some posts for a metal hand rail in @maynoothuniversity.ie...

📻Listen back: Dr Barry Cannon of the Dept of Sociology was on Morning Ireland, discussing matters in #Venezuela. (starts 1:13:12) www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

ChatGPT-generated text is often more predictable than human writing and uses certain recurring words, writes Prof Jennifer Foster of the Hamilton Institute at MU. www.maynoothuniversity.ie/research/spo...

It's January, it's bitterly cold, but the frosty campus looks fab ❄️ #SouthCampus #MaynoothUni

"We're getting into the 'uncanny valley,'" Dr Constance de Saint, @mupsychology.bsky.social referring to the phenomenon in which interactions with artificial objects are so human-like it triggers unease. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

“Even 10-15 minutes of light walking after meals improves glucose control and reduces post-meal fatigue,” says Ciara McCormack, assistant professor of exercise and health science at Maynooth University. https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/healthandwellbeing/arid-41764919.html

Athbhliain faoi shéan is faoi mhaise daoibh! 🎉 A new year brings new possibilities. 🌱 Here's to a bright 2026 from Maynooth University 🕯️ #MaynoothUni #MaynoothCampus #HappyNewYear #2026 📸 by Daniel Balteanu of Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS over Ireland

🎄Nollaig Shona Daoibh from Maynooth University☃️ - wishing our students, staff, alumni and the wider Maynooth community on campus and around the world a restful Christmas season. MU closes for the Christmas break on Tuesday evening, 23rd December, and reopens on Friday, 2nd January 2026.

A short history of extreme weather events at Christmas in Ireland. Dr Carla Mateus of the Department of Geography and ICARUS brings us from frosty 1338 to the epic snow of 2010 https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/research/spotlight-research/short-history-extreme-weather-events-christmas-ireland

📻 Listen back: Dr Niamh Wycherley of the Dept of Early Irish (Sean-Ghaeilge) was on Newstalk's Let Me Explain With Sean Defoe, talking about what medieval Christmas was like in Ireland and whether pagans had similar festivals around the same time of year 🎄 www.goloudplayer.com/episodes/206...

📽️ That's a wrap on 2025 🎬 🎁 Maynooth University - Highlights of 2025 🎄 #highlightsoftheyear #MaynoothUni #Maynooth #MUhighlights2025 #MaynoothResearch #Christmas2025

"Ireland should be distancing itself from the US fossil fuel industry, rather than establishing new strategic relationships with it." Prof Jennie Stephens, on fossil fuels and plans to import liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the US. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

It’s official, Christmas has started! A magnificent night at the annual Maynooth Carol Service last night, bringing three amazing nights of performance to a close. A signal for many that Christmas is here.