Thanks very much to Paul Gillespie for his excellent summary & kind review of my book in today’s Irish Times & to @martindoyle.bsky.social for publishing it

Thank you to Mespil Hotel for another special birthday celebration for Michael!

Shelley Deane’s excellent talk:O’Leary’s losers’ consent, Mark Durkan’s warning of winners’ triumphalism. + Yeats’ call ‘that we not be petty people’. Terrific @UCD_CPCR conf to launch new book ed by Paul Gillespie, @McEwen_Nicola Michael Keating

An honour that Emeritus Prof Patrick Keatinge, @TCDPoliticalSci - a huge influence on my work & life, going back to my UG days- came to my book launch 40 years later! Thanks to another big influence, @MichaelgTCD for the photo & for being there too.

A stimulating discussion last night at @TLRHub @tcddublin Thanks to @MarkHennessy @HylandSonja Rory Montgomery & @MaryCMurphy & to @GillianWylie7 for introducing the event.

Department of Foreign Affairs (& Trade) looking splendid this evening, on my way home!

Holiday season feeling in @tcddublin.bsky.social as Christmas tree is lit!

Delighted to say my book has arrived (& ‘only’ took me 8 yrs!). Thx to my colleagues in TCD & to @conorjkelly.bsky.social @alanrenwick.bsky.social @alanwhysall.bsky.social Brendan O’Leary, Cathy-Gormley-Heenan, Chris McCrudden, for providing much to ponder @conunitucl.bsky.social refs working group.

Very impressed by Grand Central Station & University of Ulster! Thanks to Prof Paul Carmichael UU & Prof Gisela Holfter University of Limerick for a terrific conference.