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Mark Tottenham
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Barrister.
Presenter of The Fifth Court podcast.
Author of the Reliable Expert Witness.
Editor of Decisis.ie.
September 23, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Onstage in one hour at the Electric Picnic!
August 31, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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this is so wonderfully weird, give her all the golds 🥇
August 18, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Shakespeare’s authorship on trial in the UK in the 1960s and US in the 1980s. The great Elizabeth Winkler on judicial considerations of the question.

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E129 The Fifth Court - Elizabeth Winkler - was Shakespeare sole author of all 'his' works? Plenty of legals around this one.
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August 14, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Maxwell’s yacht belongs to Murdoch’s ex-wife! Does Jeffrey Archer know about this?
August 13, 2025 at 3:17 AM
@beatlespod.bsky.social
It turns out that, like Allen Klein, Colonel Tom Parker is much misunderstood.

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Correcting The Record On Elvis's Manager
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August 1, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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July 4, 2025 at 4:41 AM
‘Gloomy’
Dachau in July 1933... reported in the New York Times

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July 2, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Nominations for the scariest kind of lawyer?
“Daddy's a litigator. Those are the scariest kind of lawyer.”

Oh you sweet child, they really are not.
June 29, 2025 at 8:21 PM
At Peggy Seeger’s last ever concert of her last ever tour - or so she says.
June 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
This news, as reported in Bild, may not have received quite the same level of coverage in Ireland.
June 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Clearly modelling himself on @darraghmackin.bsky.social
Breaking news: US secretary of defence Pete Hegseth said the attacks on Iran's nuclear facilities 'took months and weeks of positioning and preparation' to be ready when Trump gave the order https://on.ft.com/4kTcI0X
June 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Too true.
The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
June 19, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Essential #Bloomsday listening: Frank McNally on Ulysses and the law.
June 15, 2025 at 5:26 PM
@irishtimes.com This says it’s Ross O’Carroll Kelly. But it’s actually Hugh Linehan and Pat Leahy!

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‘I haven’t really been living before now,’ Brett tells his wife. ‘Ross has slept with more than 800 women’
Ross O'Carroll-Kelly · Episode
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June 14, 2025 at 5:49 AM
@ppfideas.bsky.social
Another excellent episode on the trial of Charles I. Thanks very much.
Btw, Blaise Pascal wrote the line about not having time to write a shorter letter.
June 13, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Reposted by Mark Tottenham
The Bloomsday episode of The Fifth Court podcast - Frank McNally of The Irishman’s Diary on the legal issues in Ulysses.

(Please share with the Joyceans in your life.)
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E122 The Fifth Court - Frank McNally, Irish Times - a Bloomsday (Legal) Special
The Fifth Court - DSBA Legal Podcast of the Year · Episode
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June 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Frank McNally of The Irish Times talks about the Childs trial, Paddy Dignam’s life insurance policy, and ‘U.P. Up’.
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#Bloomsday2025, #JamesJoyce #Ulysses
E122 The Fifth Court - Frank McNally, Irish Times - a Bloomsday (Legal) Special
The Fifth Court - DSBA Legal Podcast of the Year · Episode
open.spotify.com
June 11, 2025 at 3:17 AM
The Bloomsday episode of The Fifth Court podcast - Frank McNally of The Irishman’s Diary on the legal issues in Ulysses.

(Please share with the Joyceans in your life.)
open.spotify.com/episode/064R...
E122 The Fifth Court - Frank McNally, Irish Times - a Bloomsday (Legal) Special
The Fifth Court - DSBA Legal Podcast of the Year · Episode
open.spotify.com
June 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Our interview with Mayo barrister Diarmuid Connolly, on the Fifth Court podcast.
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E119 The Fifth Court - Diarmuid J. Connolly BL (now quite the 'Father of the Mayo Bar' ) - recorded at the University of Galway
The Fifth Court - DSBA Legal Podcast of the Year · Episode
open.spotify.com
May 21, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The AI panel at the Kilkenny Law Festival.
May 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Our interview with former Judge Alice Doyle at the Kilkenny Law Festival.
May 17, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Irish stew … in the name of the law!
No,Walkers. No. 🇮🇪
May 14, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Reposted by Mark Tottenham
“The prospect of having an artificial intelligence bot deciding on your court case …
This is one of the potential next steps for AI in the legal field and society more generally, that experts speaking at this weekend's Kilkenny Law Festival will explore.”

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Artificial Intelligence set to be the hot topic at Kilkenny Law Festival this weekend
Coming to a court near you... Meet your AI judge and jury?
www.kilkennypeople.ie
May 14, 2025 at 7:12 AM