This was a nail biter! One step closer🥇🇨🇦

Today, UN Special Rapporteurs Gina Romero and Alice Edwards published a press release expressing concern about the acquisition of double strength pepper spray and tasers by An Garda Síochána.

The world's richest man is broadcasting eliminationist rhetoric about a tiny, vulnerable minority, and virtually no one is going to treat it as a scandal. It's just normal now.

[email protected] has published 2nd of 2 pieces on Garda Powers Bill It looks at journalistic privilege & how Gardaí will get search warrants against journalists In short: there's a risk risk the Bill breaches the European Convention on Human Rights www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

This morning, the @dpcireland.bsky.social announced that it has opened an own-volition inquiry into X Internet Unlimited Company (XIUC) concerning the Grok AI "nudification" scandal. www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

Sidney Crosby is grounding Tom Wilson as soon as they get home.

CONNOR MCDAVID IS IN ANOTHER STRATOSPHERE. HE’S THE NEW RECORD HOLDER FOR MOST POINTS IN A TOURNAMENT BY A CANADIAN IN OLYMPICS HISTORY! 🤩🇨🇦

Brilliant, sharp incisive criticism of the new Garda Powers Bill from Cian Ó Concubhair: the absence of explicit powers to record racial data in particular is such an important point: www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule

Worst part of Olympic hockey is having to cheer for the Habs players.

The judgment in Huda Ammori v the Home Secretary – on the government's proscription of Palestine Action – will be handed down tomorrow (Friday 13 February) at the Royal Courts of Justice (Court 4) at 10.00.

Joel Plaskett. Doesn't get much more maritime than that 🇨🇦

T/W racism. A testimony in from a pre-xmas Gardaí border enforcement operation on a Derry to Dublin bus. Remember that if you are Irish or British, you do not have to carry or produce ID under Common Travel Area provisions. Carrying and producing ID lends legitimacy to racial profiling. [1/4]

Have you, or someone you know, been arrested at a peaceful protest in Ireland? @iccl.bsky.social 's survey seeking to gather information about the experiences of arrests at protest remains open: lnkd.in/d9HpTSAz #SpeirGorm

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 trial of three activists charged with trespassing at Shannon Airport has been adjourned pending the outcome of a Supreme Court appeal in a separate case.

I’m glad he is speaking out & that there is a response of outrage. Just remember his story is so many others’ - others who don’t seem to get the same response of outrage. There are many tortured souls - including children - trapped in our system of concentration camps. Be outraged for them all.

Saying that the European Convention on Human Rights has gone too far is like saying that seat belts have gone too far. Because really, seat belts are non invasive, a minor thing, something you hardly notice. That is, of course, until things get really bad. Then you’re really glad about the seat belt

🗣️ “There is no question that protecting children is a legitimate aim… but the current proposals, in our view, are poorly conceived,” — Olga Cronin, Senior Policy Officer, Irish Council for Civil Liberties #TonightVMTV #SocialMedia

Office of the Inspector of Prisons follow-up reports reveal overcrowding, degrading conditions, and inadequate healthcare continue in Mountjoy and Cloverhill despite repeated recommendations. Read IPRT's Press Release: bit.ly/4kjfU6t #PrisonReform #HumanRights #IPRT

Seeking a few more months to steady their immigration status, some university graduates fall undocumented and lose jobs. Read more here: www.dublininquirer.com/seeking-a-fe...

Pleased to see the jury make this decision. We need to have eyes wide open this is exactly why the Government wants to abolish juries. People protesting against a genocide are not the criminals here - it's the politicians who continue to provide cover. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"What exactly do you expect Carney to do / not do?" A thread of 50 specific items (with links, and not in any particular order), a large fraction of which are in line with warning signs we pointed out early on and were told to be quiet, wait and see, or trust his 4D chess acumen. 1/??

Alright. Fine. Let's put together our list of things we think Carney should do and should stop doing. I'll compile it from the comments in a fresh thread, then we can all post it when we inevitably get asked what we think he should and shouldn't do.

We need to hear from you if you witness or experience an immigration raid or ID checking by immigration enforcement and / or police at: 1. Grand Central Station Belfast. 2. At workplaces. 3. On a 'cross-border' bus or train - NB Gardaí if the raid occurs in ROI. 4. At ferry ports. [1/2]

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

CCLA is alarmed by the reported use of serious force by Durham Regional Police Service officers against defence lawyer Sudine Riley at the Oshawa Courthouse on January 23, 2026. Read more here. ccla.org/press-releas...

MY NEW ALBUM, FLORESCENCE, OUT 15TH MAY. ANGUS THONGS TRIBUTE LETS GO <3 trailer created w and directed by @ameliadimz 🥹💛

“While the UK government is making plans to build skyscrapers over the remains of Gaza’s buried children, Khalid’s actions expose the barbarity & racist hypocrisy of the UK legal system.By Monday, we can expect this young man to be well in the process of dying if not dead.”

Amid attacks from the right on “NGOs”, trust in Ireland’s charities has been declining. Scandals in some charities have also harmed the reputation of the sector as a whole, which is unfair, people working for other nonprofits say. More here: www.dublininquirer.com/amid-attacks...

ICCL has written to the Seanad ahead of today's debate on the Mental Health Bill 2024. In partnership with Mental Health Reform, ICCL welcomes some of the proposed amendments -- but the Bill as currently drafted still fails to protect human rights in several key areas ➡️ www.iccl.ie/news/iccl-wr...

The Federal Court of Appeal has delivered a historic victory for the rule of law by ruling in favour of CCLA in the landmark Emergencies Act case. The Court confirmed today that the Act's stringent legal thresholds were not met in February 2022. Read more here. ccla.org/press-releas...

The European Convention on Human Rights was a benefit to British troops, not a burden, writes the Commander Legal for the Iraq War in 2003👇 🔗 www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/5542abd... via @telegraph.co.uk It was a force for good, ensuring humane treatment and proper accountability. #ECHR

Taoiseach on RTE Radio again pedalling the myth that having a job makes disability and the cost of disability disappear - it doesn’t.

When RuPaul brings back the eliminated Queens to watch the remaining contestants do a comedy roast.

We welcome the PSNI announcement that they will review the security classification of legacy reports and that that exercise importantly includes the Morton report. www.declassifieduk.org/police-chief...

“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”.

On immigration and immigration-related matters Malachy Steenson defending Simon Harris and Gript defending Jim O’Callaghan. Enough said.

Global writers and scholars have shown their support to hunger striking prisoners from the Palestine Action group.

Liberty supporters shared their concerns about Government plans to ban face coverings at protests. This law, if passed in the Crime and Policing Bill, will make it unsafe for them to protest and limit their voices. Our right to protest must be protected. For everybody. No exceptions.

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

Section 5(1)(f) of the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act 1998 (as amended) makes it a criminal offence to knowingly facilitate the production or distribution of sexualised images of children. The problem here isn't the law - it's the political willingnesss to enforce it against X.

The Irish government has just announced plans to gut judicial review by (amongst other things) narrowing locus standi so much that civil society groups won't be able to challenge illegal acts of public bodies. Amongst other things, this is clearly contrary to Articles 79 and 80 GDPR.

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Three days before Christmas and the pushback against the rushed Garda pilot of tasers for frontline gardaí in in Dublin and Waterford continues. Today, I've a letter in the Irish Times highlighting the need for the use of taser policy to be published: www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...

Canadian economy rallies as #1 export now Heated Rivalry

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... The Donnelly’s Bar attack. Where the search for the truth about the Glenanne Gang started.

📘 The official edition of the “Preparatory Work” of the Convention is now available in digital format. ➡️ This fully searchable digital PDF has been made possible thanks to @degruyterbrill.bsky.social, which digitised all eight volumes free of charge. www.echr.coe.int/documents/d/...

This International Migrants Day, a Dáil Éireann response from the Irish Justice Minister confirming that Frontex are training An Garda Síochána's National Immigration Bureau (GNIB) who are decimating the Common Travel Area by aggressively enforcing the land border on our supposedly shared island.