Eoin Daly
LightNews LightNews
eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social
Eoin Daly
@eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social
10K followers 2.2K following 830 posts

Law lecturer. Political theory, constitutions, republicanism, France. Dad of two. An 'autism parent'. Interested in athletics, politics, wine.

Videos
Political science 54%
Law 20%
Posts Replies Media Videos

eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social
Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 15h
‘Genderwashing’ is a nice way of putting it. If you want more gender (or racial) balance within the prevailing academic ethos of competition, careerism and hierarchy, that is simply not a very appealing vision of ‘equality’
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
Athena SWAN award a driver of change - or just genderwashing?
No hard evidence that award scheme has demonstrable impact on gender profile of professoriate or presidents in Irish universities
www.irishtimes.com

eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social
Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 1d
She recently asked me to buy her a fake orchid because she said she knew she wouldn’t be bothered to take care of a real one. Spiritually, she is the stern 46-year-old we all need to sort our lives out.

eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social
Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 1d
Lightheartedly told the 8 year old I would struggle to make my book deadline. She tilted her head sympathetically and said ‘’ I have two tips’. ‘Try putting post-its on your computer - and don’t procrastinate’ ❤️❤️

eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social
Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 1d
Usual set of facile liberal cliches from O’Toole. You can disagree or not with Sinn Féin’s vote on Ukraine aid but he doesn’t even recognise, never mind engage with its stated position, that it supports aid but not within a framework and logic of obviously futile escalation

Reposted by Edgar Morgenroth, Eoin Daly

irishtimes.com
The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 2d
Fintan O’Toole: Tiocfaidh ár lá is being replaced by Turn the Other Cheek
Fintan O’Toole: Tiocfaidh ár lá is being replaced by Turn the Other Cheek
Sinn Féin is rightly proud of republicanism’s role in the fight against fascism in Spain. So why is it now opposing assistance for Ukraine?
www.irishtimes.com

eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social
Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 3d
I tweeted this just to get a rise of my sister @hannahdaly.ie

eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social
Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 3d
Apparently, it is technically possible to remedy it, but I am convinced that some terrible calamity will accompany the effort

eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social
Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 3d
Rose tinting is a powerful drug

eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social
Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 3d
Maybe the problem is the specific app

eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social
Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 3d
Becoming a Luddite with age is such a cliche, but having lost an hour to the nightmare of having two versions of OneDrive installed, I am convinced things were more efficient when I worked with a physical disc

Reposted by Eoin Daly, Nathan P. Kalmoe

benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social
Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 3d
A reminder that this famous photo was taken in 2014, during Obama's presidency.
A boy from Honduras watching a movie at an immigration detention facility in McAllen, Texas, in 2014

eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social
Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 4d
Tend to agree in general but today let’s say it is obviously very romantic and perfectly judged😅

eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social
Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 4d
Bought a pink wine for Valentine’s Day - lame, I know. But since it’s ‘natural’ and unfiltered, it actually looks not like a bright pink rose but like mucky river water.
Sediment in the bottom of a bottle of pink wine

eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social
Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 6d
Following the Winter Olympics from a perennially mild country where it almost never snows is quite surreal; the first time I tried ice skating was abroad (France) as an adult, remember little kids whizzing past pointing in amazement than adult couldn’t skate

eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social
Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 6d
I bring my daughter, who has a learning disability, to a fast food restaurant.
The straw disintegrates a short way into the drink- she doesn’t understand any instruction not to chew it.
Crazy how the supposed innovative power of capitalism can’t give us straws both biodegradable & accessible

eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social
Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 7d
Paws-umption of innocence applies
nicolechung.bsky.social Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 8d
here is a dog who stole half my dinner roll and destroyed a whole box of tissues
golden retriever with a wide-yes and deceptively innocent expression reclining on a white couch

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Eoin Daly

nicolechung.bsky.social
Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 8d
here is a dog who stole half my dinner roll and destroyed a whole box of tissues
golden retriever with a wide-yes and deceptively innocent expression reclining on a white couch

eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social
Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 10d
Accident 1: slid all the way down the stairs on my arse, driving my toes into bannister at the end.
#2: fell backwards off a high box I tried jumping onto
# 3. Slipped on some leaves and twisted an ankle while trying to demonstrate a single leg pogo hop to about thirty 9 year olds

eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social
Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 10d
Do we become more accident-prone in middle age? Barely suffered an accident in my life and then within a year I have broken a toe, fractured a wrist and sprained an ankle. All, it must be admitted, very minor ailments caused by VERY funny misadventures

eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social
Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 10d
Randomly, I shared a communal office space with André Ventura, now the Portuguese far right leader, while we were doing PhDs in Cork 2008-2010ish. Though I didn’t know him well, he was on the surface a very affable character, as is often the way with extremists www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Landslide win beckons for centre-left candidate in Portugal’s presidential runoff
Exit polls give António José Seguro 67%-73% of vote over far-right populist André Ventura
www.theguardian.com

eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social
Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 17d
This innocent-looking dried habanero- first time using it in a stew of beans, tomatoes, chocolate, vinegar - my poor wife nearly died but the way it is both fruity and yet deep, dry heat: omg
Dried habanero chili

eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social
Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 17d
Latest instalment of the culture wars in Ireland is over the new public holiday tomorrow that honours both a Christian saint and (allegedly) the ancient pagan new year, Imbolg (I just care about the day off)
* did I mention the day off tomorrow
https://x.com/Toibin1/status/2017202325438255231?s=20

eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social
Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 18d
‘Unlike his predecessors, Trump forgoes cultivated speeches delivered with a legalistic silver tongue; but the violent core of his idea of a Pax Americana is anything but new.’

newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Wolfgang Streeck, American Violence — Sidecar
An interview with Wolgang Streeck
newleftreview.org

eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social
Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 20d
Okay hear me out.
Wine - red and white
Rice - white and black
Cider - fancy and plain (okay hard to justify)
A random fruit one that was a gift
Balsamic
Malt

eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social
Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 20d
Some people apparently consider it unreasonable to insist on keeping 8 varieties of vinegar in the kitchen??

Reposted by Steve Peers, Jonathan Hopkin, Alan Richardson , and 4 more

isibb.bsky.social
Isi Baehr-Breen @isibb.bsky.social · 20d
The coolest Congresswoman there’s ever been.

eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social
Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 21d
When I look up an academic I basically just want a chronological list of their publications, but because PMC execs love shovelling money at fancy but shit software, you’re more likely now to get a set of AI-generated keywords and a graph comparing their citations in 2022 v 2023

eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social
Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 23d
Do US liberals not pause to think about the rest of the world when they outragedly emphasise the CITIZEN part? Let me tell you how it sounds: it sounds like you think murdering mere foreigners is not that big a deal, something you are prepared to maybe forgive a little bit of from a Democrat presdnt
matthew-bunn.bsky.social Matthew Bunn @matthew-bunn.bsky.social · 24d
Did anyone actually vote to have masked Federal agents hold US citizens down and shoot them in the back?

Reposted by Eoin Daly

matthew-bunn.bsky.social
Matthew Bunn @matthew-bunn.bsky.social · 24d
Did anyone actually vote to have masked Federal agents hold US citizens down and shoot them in the back?

eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social
Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · Jan 20
AI very nicely exposes the contradictions within “conservative“ political thought. Philosophically, conservatives should be aghast at the prospective disruption of established social order and the tearing apart of the “given”. But in practice they can’t help bending the knee to tech capital
eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · Jan 16
Occurred to me there that whereas I tend to ask my father for DIY advice, in the future we’ll probably just ask AI. Yeah it’s more convenient, but something is lost