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McCord and Weissmann with a critical take on the implications of the #SCOTUS decision in Trump v US www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/o...
November 1, 2025 at 9:20 PM
McCord and Weissmann with a critical take on the implications of the #SCOTUS decision in Trump v US www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/o...
Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner Michael O’Flaherty delivering a fascinating lecture in UCD Sutherland School of Law this afternoon.
October 29, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner Michael O’Flaherty delivering a fascinating lecture in UCD Sutherland School of Law this afternoon.
Superb piece on the presidential election- & on what happens now- by Pat Leahy in today’s IT
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
October 25, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Superb piece on the presidential election- & on what happens now- by Pat Leahy in today’s IT
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Sounds suspiciously like an excuse for continuing the policy of not imposing
any sanctions on Russia...no matter what Putin does.
any sanctions on Russia...no matter what Putin does.
September 13, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Sounds suspiciously like an excuse for continuing the policy of not imposing
any sanctions on Russia...no matter what Putin does.
any sanctions on Russia...no matter what Putin does.
Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un all great pals and Conspiracy or not, insofar as there is a US-China split, Putin is clearly on China's side.
on.ft.com/46kb3fG
on.ft.com/46kb3fG
September 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un all great pals and Conspiracy or not, insofar as there is a US-China split, Putin is clearly on China's side.
on.ft.com/46kb3fG
on.ft.com/46kb3fG
John Field, the Irish composer, is famous for having created the nocturne. I didn’t realise until just now that he was a famous enough composer to have gained mention in Tolstoy’s epic War and Peace:
August 21, 2025 at 7:01 AM
John Field, the Irish composer, is famous for having created the nocturne. I didn’t realise until just now that he was a famous enough composer to have gained mention in Tolstoy’s epic War and Peace:
‘O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us,To see oursels as ithers see us!’ German TV programme on Irish environmental problems this morning. Pretty good, I thought.
August 12, 2025 at 12:57 PM
‘O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us,To see oursels as ithers see us!’ German TV programme on Irish environmental problems this morning. Pretty good, I thought.
Having the slightly surreal experience of watching the All-Ireland in Brittany with the commentary (which is pretty good) in fluent French. Wasn’t aware this was a thing. #AllIreland
July 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Having the slightly surreal experience of watching the All-Ireland in Brittany with the commentary (which is pretty good) in fluent French. Wasn’t aware this was a thing. #AllIreland
It is something both extraordinary and extraordinarily unworthy of the high office Trump holds to refer to his democratically-elected opponents as ‘scum’. It demeans both himself & the democratic system.
June 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
It is something both extraordinary and extraordinarily unworthy of the high office Trump holds to refer to his democratically-elected opponents as ‘scum’. It demeans both himself & the democratic system.
Prof John FitzGerald with his usual insightful analysis. The stuff is easier to preach as an academic than to do as a politician, though!
June 2, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Prof John FitzGerald with his usual insightful analysis. The stuff is easier to preach as an academic than to do as a politician, though!
This is looking increasingly like a generalised war against universities & freedom of thought. Bad enough as this is in its own right, if it goes on, one would fear negative effects on the US economy, which has long benefited from US attractiveness as a place of freedom of thought and innovation.
May 31, 2025 at 8:12 AM
This is looking increasingly like a generalised war against universities & freedom of thought. Bad enough as this is in its own right, if it goes on, one would fear negative effects on the US economy, which has long benefited from US attractiveness as a place of freedom of thought and innovation.
A US president who refers to his democratically elected political opponents as ‘scum’ and federal judges as ‘monsters’. This is the language of totalitarianism and, given the behaviour of some of his followers, utterly irresponsible and unworthy of his office.
May 27, 2025 at 8:18 AM
A US president who refers to his democratically elected political opponents as ‘scum’ and federal judges as ‘monsters’. This is the language of totalitarianism and, given the behaviour of some of his followers, utterly irresponsible and unworthy of his office.
This is Palestinian boy Osama Al-Reqep, five, lying on a hospital bed in Gaza, where 55 children may already have died from acute malnutrition due to the Israeli blockade.
news.sky.com/story/warnin...
news.sky.com/story/warnin...
May 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
This is Palestinian boy Osama Al-Reqep, five, lying on a hospital bed in Gaza, where 55 children may already have died from acute malnutrition due to the Israeli blockade.
news.sky.com/story/warnin...
news.sky.com/story/warnin...
Session IV of Constitutional Polycrisis & Emergency Constitutionalism:Populism, Emergency, Crisis with Prof Cosmin Cercel of gent University speaking.
April 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Session IV of Constitutional Polycrisis & Emergency Constitutionalism:Populism, Emergency, Crisis with Prof Cosmin Cercel of gent University speaking.
Session II of “Constitutional Polycrisis & Emergency Constitutionalism” underway in Sofia: “Emergency, Identity, Interpretation” with Dr Alan Greene of Birmingham University giving a fascinating talk on ‘Constitutional Identity and States of Exception’
April 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Session II of “Constitutional Polycrisis & Emergency Constitutionalism” underway in Sofia: “Emergency, Identity, Interpretation” with Dr Alan Greene of Birmingham University giving a fascinating talk on ‘Constitutional Identity and States of Exception’
Session 2 of “Constitutional Polycrisis and Emergency Constitutionalism” underway at Sofia University: “Emergency, Identity, Interpretation” with Dr Alan Greene of Birmingham University currently speaking.
April 4, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Session 2 of “Constitutional Polycrisis and Emergency Constitutionalism” underway at Sofia University: “Emergency, Identity, Interpretation” with Dr Alan Greene of Birmingham University currently speaking.
Chairing Session 1 of ‘Constitutional Polycrisis and Emergency Constitutionalism’ at the University of Sofia on the topic of ‘The Conceptual Shapes of Constitutional Crisis and Emergency’
April 4, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Chairing Session 1 of ‘Constitutional Polycrisis and Emergency Constitutionalism’ at the University of Sofia on the topic of ‘The Conceptual Shapes of Constitutional Crisis and Emergency’
The opening session of what promises to be a fascinating conference on Constitutional Polycrisis and Emergency Constitutionalism in Sofia University, organised by Professor Martin Belov is beginning with an introduction by Professor Stoichova. I’ll chair Session I & speak later on the EU & crises.
April 4, 2025 at 6:21 AM
The opening session of what promises to be a fascinating conference on Constitutional Polycrisis and Emergency Constitutionalism in Sofia University, organised by Professor Martin Belov is beginning with an introduction by Professor Stoichova. I’ll chair Session I & speak later on the EU & crises.
You can see why he might empathise all right...
www.bbc.com/news/live/cw...
www.bbc.com/news/live/cw...
March 31, 2025 at 2:25 PM
You can see why he might empathise all right...
www.bbc.com/news/live/cw...
www.bbc.com/news/live/cw...
It’s a beautiful day here in UCD Dublin and Spring has definitely sprung!
March 28, 2025 at 10:00 AM
It’s a beautiful day here in UCD Dublin and Spring has definitely sprung!
Well, we certainly have one of them.
March 11, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Well, we certainly have one of them.
The brilliant and wonderfully entertaining Sir Stephen Fry being interviewed at UCD’s Literary and Historical Society last night and receiving the James Joyce award from the Society’s auditor Stéphane de Bairéid.
March 7, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The brilliant and wonderfully entertaining Sir Stephen Fry being interviewed at UCD’s Literary and Historical Society last night and receiving the James Joyce award from the Society’s auditor Stéphane de Bairéid.
The brilliant and wonderfully entertaining Sir Stephen Fry being interviewed at UCD’s Literary and Historical Society last night and receiving the James Joyce award from the Society’s auditor Stéphane de Bairéid.
March 7, 2025 at 10:29 PM
The brilliant and wonderfully entertaining Sir Stephen Fry being interviewed at UCD’s Literary and Historical Society last night and receiving the James Joyce award from the Society’s auditor Stéphane de Bairéid.
I spent a very enjoyable evening on Thursday in University College Dublin’s Literary and Historical Society participating in a well-attended debate on whether the European Union had a future under the very able chairmanship of Bryan Dobson.
March 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I spent a very enjoyable evening on Thursday in University College Dublin’s Literary and Historical Society participating in a well-attended debate on whether the European Union had a future under the very able chairmanship of Bryan Dobson.