Had a lovely evening in Brussels yesterday at the UCC School of Law Brussels Alumni and Friends reception. Great to see our alumni doing fantastic work in a wide variety of roles. Special thanks to Commissioner Michael McGrath for accepting our invitation to be the guest speaker.

Do you (have to) use LinkedIn? Want out of their AI model-training bollocksology? Opt out here, h/t to @lizcarolan.com: www.linkedin.com/mypreference... #spéirghorm #ireland #linkedin #notoai

UCC School of Law invites you to join visiting scholar Beverley Clough on Thursday, 25th September, 12-2pm at the Shtepps, The Hub More info & RSVP here: www.ucc.ie/en/ccjhr/new...

this exists it is called thinking

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

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SORRY, YOU'LL FORGIVE ME FOR ASKING, BUT HAVE WE ALL OF A SUDDEN DECIDED THAT IT IS WRONG TO COLLECTIVELY PUNISH A CIVILIAN POPULATION FOR THE ACTIONS OF A BODY THAT CLAIMS TO SPEAK AND ACT ON THEIR BEHALF?

When journalism was cool. And risked everything to challenge power.

BREAKING: Al-Ghafri Tower, currently the highest building in Gaza City, was just bombed and levelled to the ground by Israeli warplanes. This is part of Israel's efforts to ethnically cleanse the entire population of the city and forcibly remove them to southern Gaza

Just reviewed my first paper that cites an entirely hallucinated paper I had apparently written 😬

Absolutely !!!insane!!! to me that the UK government, lobby and newspapers litigate at length every minor infraction by the BBC, rival newspapers, or what some random columnist has posted. But all of them just carry on not even commenting about this media owner. He’s not hiding, he’s telling you!

Can anyone explain why the Government is still doing most of its communications through a website whose owner is now openly rallying the far right to trigger a violent insurrection on our streets?

You will be totally unsurprised that @jamellebouie.net has written the most sensible & accurate take on all of this. We need to be able to hold two thoughts in our heads at the same time. Political violence is bad & should be condemned. And far right authoritarianism is bad & should be condemned.

"That Israel and the United States are calling plans for the mass displacement of Palestinians in Gaza a “voluntary exodus” is one of the “most fraudulent, sinister, and twisted cover stories ever told”" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Absolutely. Spreading hateful ideas does not excuse shooting someone; but being shot does not excuse spreading hateful ideas.

The capital of Finland hasn't had a traffic death in a full year. Lower speed limits, plentiful speed cameras, 1,500+ km of bike lanes, infrastructure for pedestrians, and a new tram line. When you prioritize people and not vehicles, you can save lives while protecting the environment.

Fox News host on mentally ill people who commit crimes: “Just kill them” www.mediamatters.org/fox-friends/...

This is the second such order in two years. This time, Israel says clearly it will destroy the city. There will be nothing to return to.

“But perhaps the most daunting obstacle to a moral self-examination among Israelis is that in this war, morality itself has been weaponized in the service of terrorism. Hamas’s greatest asset is the outraged conscience.”

On average, Israel has been killing 28 children every day in Gaza for the past 700 days, according to Save the Children.

Is there going to be any push-back AT ALL from the Irish Gov on Elon Musk, targeting our deputy leader, who has had death and bomb threats to his family? Have we surrendered our sovereignty to the Tech Oligarchs? WTAF is going on here? JFC

A Holocaust museum in Los Angeles is facing backlash after deleting an Instagram post that suggested the phrase “never again” should apply to all people – not just Jews. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...

A must read from Guy S Goodwin-Gill - his exortation at the end 'We must make it known that we do not want and will not share our space with war criminals or génocidaires.' & that we must talk & talk about genocide needs to be heard loud & clear among public international law scholars

Timeline cleanse

The killing in Gaza continues. Yesterday, September 1 , the Israeli military killed 76 people, 12 of whom were waiting for humanitarian aid. ‏ישראל ממשיכה את ההרג בעזה. אתמול, 1.9, הצבא הישראלי הרג 76 בני אדם - מתוכם 12 בעת שחיכו לסיוע הומניטרי

The largest professional organization of scholars studying genocide said Monday that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

“We wanted to disable a security camera on a hospital we suspected might be used to monitor troop movements… to do this, we fired tank rounds at a hospital (war crime) and then when medical workers and journalists were visibly on the balcony, we did it again (multiple war crimes)… nothing matters.”

"What's happening now is barbarism in the extreme.. 15 people killed, 4 journalists, medical students have been killed.. it is murder, these are war crimes, killing innocent civilians.." Professor Nick Maynard on Israels latest attack on Nasser hospital

So the BBC isn't going to broadcast Hozier's set because he's calling for exactly the same policy as the UK goverment – a Palestinian state and a meaningful peace protest. Spineless, craven, contemptable.

"We've killed tens of thousands, but it's not genocide." "We are denying food to hundreds of thousands, but it's not famine." Terminology isn't unimportant; but splitting hairs over thresholds is a useful distraction. Whatever you want to call it, Israel's campaign against Gaza is monstrous.

"Will the Israeli public retreat further into denial, or be forced at last to confront reality?" www.972mag.com/israelis-atr...

Israeli army database suggests at least 83% of Gaza dead were civilians Classified intelligence from May reveals Israel believed it had killed ~8,900 militants in Gaza, indicating a proportion of civilian slaughter with few parallels in modern warfare. www.972mag.com/israeli-inte...

It was always about taking over Gaza.

For years, decades even, the EU presented the E1 as the absolute red line. If Israel would move to build this settlement block, bisecting the West Bank, that would be the death knell of the Palestinian state, and that could not happen. Now Israel is moving forward with E1, openly mocking the EU.

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Good thing no one uses Microsoft Excel for anything related to legal, regulatory or compliance business functions www.theverge.com/news/761338/...

“The fact that there are already 50,000 dead in Gaza is necessary and required for future generations. For everything that happened on October 7, for every person on October 7, 50 Palestinians need to die. It does not matter now if they are children.” - Haliva

Good piece in the Journal: www.thejournal.ie/readme/irish...

“To numb the traumas of wartime Gaza, Rahma Abu Abed, 12, plays a game with her friends. They ask one another: What did you eat before the war?…Trying to remember what good food looked like, Rahma plays with the wet sand, shaping it into imaginary meals.”

DC Union Station tonight. Unreal.

Until recently, the term "occupation" in Israel was used to underscore its negative connotations. This is changing. ITAMAR MANN (@itamann.bsky.social‬) on the shifting meaning of the word – and why it now obscures something worse: expulsion and destruction. verfassungsblog.de/occupation-a...

In May, the Centre for Children’s Rights and Family law, @ucc.ie hosted an online panel discussion on the sentencing of children for serious offences. The recording of the event is now available to watch on our YouTube channel, please see the following link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRui...

Israel wants us to become de-sensitised to these numbers. We can never allow that to happen. This is an abomination - a stain on humanity - and yes, a genocide as well. Israel steps up Gaza attacks, with 123 killed in 24 hours www.rte.ie/news/world/2...

Nice FT citing Ireland, where data centre power demand has massively outpaced clean power growth - meaning increased burning of fossil fuels You can't rely on an assumption of infinite, exponential, unstoppable renewable energy to excuse data centre expansionism. www.ft.com/content/0f61...

Just imagine Israel did this to your child.

Israel is storing recordings of Palestinians daily phone calls - millions of them - that they analyse to plan airstrikes / kill people - in Irish data centres Sweet Jesus www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza