Professor Ursula Kilkelly
@ursulak.bsky.social
Law Professor and VP Global at University College Cork. Passionate about #childrights
#justice #leadership #sport #music and all things #Mayo 💚❤️
https://research.ucc.ie/profiles/B012/ukilkelly
#justice #leadership #sport #music and all things #Mayo 💚❤️
https://research.ucc.ie/profiles/B012/ukilkelly
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Sport as a space for human rights education and children’s rights
Children’s participation in sport presents a key opportunity for the advancement of human rights education. Human rights education is recognised as vital to the realisation of human rights. However...
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Combining my passion for sport and children's rights and my collaboration with the wonderful Jonathan Todres, here is our latest piece.. open access 😊
Sport as a space for human rights education and children’s rights www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Sport as a space for human rights education and children’s rights www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
By joining the Enhanced Games, Shane Ryan will be a paid stooge of a doped-up circus
www.irishtimes.com/sport/athlet...
www.irishtimes.com/sport/athlet...
By joining the Enhanced Games, Shane Ryan will be a paid stooge of a doped-up circus
Ryan will be a sunny, articulate spokesman for a grim plaything of tech billionaires with God complexes
www.irishtimes.com
October 15, 2025 at 5:39 AM
By joining the Enhanced Games, Shane Ryan will be a paid stooge of a doped-up circus
www.irishtimes.com/sport/athlet...
www.irishtimes.com/sport/athlet...
September 13, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Reposted by Professor Ursula Kilkelly
🎉Love sports?
🎉Passionate about securing #childrights?
🎉 @ursulak.bsky.social & @jtodres.bsky.social discuss how sports provide key setting for #HumanRightsEducation
🎉This & all 14 articles & 9 book reviews in HRER 8(1) free to download
@tandfonline.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🎉Passionate about securing #childrights?
🎉 @ursulak.bsky.social & @jtodres.bsky.social discuss how sports provide key setting for #HumanRightsEducation
🎉This & all 14 articles & 9 book reviews in HRER 8(1) free to download
@tandfonline.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Sport as a space for human rights education and children’s rights
Children’s participation in sport presents a key opportunity for the advancement of human rights education. Human rights education is recognised as vital to the realisation of human rights. However...
www.tandfonline.com
May 16, 2025 at 7:44 AM
🎉Love sports?
🎉Passionate about securing #childrights?
🎉 @ursulak.bsky.social & @jtodres.bsky.social discuss how sports provide key setting for #HumanRightsEducation
🎉This & all 14 articles & 9 book reviews in HRER 8(1) free to download
@tandfonline.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🎉Passionate about securing #childrights?
🎉 @ursulak.bsky.social & @jtodres.bsky.social discuss how sports provide key setting for #HumanRightsEducation
🎉This & all 14 articles & 9 book reviews in HRER 8(1) free to download
@tandfonline.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Brilliance. Resilience. The Extraordinary Rory McIlroy. Masters Champion.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/a...
Rory McIlroy secures career grand slam with dramatic Masters playoff win over Justin Rose
Rory McIlroy defeated Justin Rose at the first playoff hole to win his first Masters title after a remarkable topsy-turvy final round
www.theguardian.com
April 14, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Brilliance. Resilience. The Extraordinary Rory McIlroy. Masters Champion.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/a...
Great piece from San Francisco Mayor Lurie on the importance of the SF relationship with Cork and with Ireland
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
San Francisco's bond with Cork is more than just symbolic
International connections, whether business and cultural, are more important now than ever, writes newly appointed San Francisco mayor Daniel Lurie
www.irishexaminer.com
April 7, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Great piece from San Francisco Mayor Lurie on the importance of the SF relationship with Cork and with Ireland
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Today in Focus from @TheGuardian routinely offers fresh and important perspectives on the issues of the day...like this one
www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
Adolescence: what teen boys really think of girls, influencers and porn – podcast
Boys face a barrage of toxic influences. We talk to sixth-formers about the pressures and joys they experience
www.theguardian.com
April 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Today in Focus from @TheGuardian routinely offers fresh and important perspectives on the issues of the day...like this one
www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
#BBCsounds was a game changing app for listeners to the BBC. I listen to it around the clock and honestly don't know what I'll do without it. 😔
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
Blocking Irish listeners from BBC Sounds app a ‘slap in the face’
Broadcaster is making the change to boost its commercial income
www.irishtimes.com
April 1, 2025 at 4:09 AM
#BBCsounds was a game changing app for listeners to the BBC. I listen to it around the clock and honestly don't know what I'll do without it. 😔
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
Loved catching up with the wonderful Prof Ann Skelton at @unileiden.bsky.social today. And engaging with the Advanced Masters in Children's Rights on all matters of #UNCRC Incorporation of course!
March 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Loved catching up with the wonderful Prof Ann Skelton at @unileiden.bsky.social today. And engaging with the Advanced Masters in Children's Rights on all matters of #UNCRC Incorporation of course!
Reposted by Professor Ursula Kilkelly
St Patrick’s day breakfast celebrations starting off in Chicago! With Irish American partnership address by Minister Jennifer Carroll Macneill @ucc.ie @ursulak.bsky.social @jfcryan.bsky.social
March 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
St Patrick’s day breakfast celebrations starting off in Chicago! With Irish American partnership address by Minister Jennifer Carroll Macneill @ucc.ie @ursulak.bsky.social @jfcryan.bsky.social
Reposted by Professor Ursula Kilkelly
👩🎓✨ Incredible scenes! Congratulations to former UCD Ad Astra scholar Sarah Healy on winning gold in the 3,000m at the European Indoor Athletics Championships - making her the first Irish woman ever to claim the top medal at a senior European Indoor event.
March 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM
👩🎓✨ Incredible scenes! Congratulations to former UCD Ad Astra scholar Sarah Healy on winning gold in the 3,000m at the European Indoor Athletics Championships - making her the first Irish woman ever to claim the top medal at a senior European Indoor event.
Wonderful to meet these inspirational women (Suzanne Rice, Ruth Cotter and Mareese Keane) at the Ireland Funds Gala Dinner in San Francisco this weekend.. @ucc.ie graduates all, they are blazing a trail in tech, leading on EDI and so much more 🌟
March 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Wonderful to meet these inspirational women (Suzanne Rice, Ruth Cotter and Mareese Keane) at the Ireland Funds Gala Dinner in San Francisco this weekend.. @ucc.ie graduates all, they are blazing a trail in tech, leading on EDI and so much more 🌟
At @ucc.ie we are fortunate to have experts like Prof Andrew Cottey to help us make sense of what is happening in the world. Listen back to Andrew on Radio 1 today.
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Donald Trump to meet with senior security officials to consider relationship with Ukraine
Patrick Reevell, International reporter for ABC News and Prof. Andrew Cottey, Senior Lecturer in the Dept. of Government and Politics at UCC
on the relationship between the United States and Ukraine.
www.rte.ie
March 3, 2025 at 10:23 PM
At @ucc.ie we are fortunate to have experts like Prof Andrew Cottey to help us make sense of what is happening in the world. Listen back to Andrew on Radio 1 today.
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Reposted by Professor Ursula Kilkelly
“This is how authoritarianism works—not just through direct government action but through the creation of an environment where speaking up feels too costly.” newrepublic.com/article/1906...
The Price of Speaking Up in Trump’s America
A bishop asked the president to show mercy to immigrants and scared children. The response tells us everything about the next four years.
newrepublic.com
February 22, 2025 at 9:29 PM
“This is how authoritarianism works—not just through direct government action but through the creation of an environment where speaking up feels too costly.” newrepublic.com/article/1906...
Armagh and Mayo cannot be separated in thriller at Athletic Grounds
www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic...
www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic...
Armagh and Mayo cannot be separated in thriller at Athletic Grounds
Mayo launch comeback in second half and almost snatch the victory
www.irishtimes.com
February 22, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Armagh and Mayo cannot be separated in thriller at Athletic Grounds
www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic...
www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic...
Dr Lydia Foy: ‘I never got an apology actually. It would be nice to get one’.
A lovely, important piece.
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
A lovely, important piece.
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
Dr Lydia Foy: ‘I never got an apology actually. It would be nice to get one’
The trans activist who fought the State for years for the right to change her gender on her birth cert would prefer to ‘talk about me as a person rather than all the baloney with the courts’
www.irishtimes.com
February 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Dr Lydia Foy: ‘I never got an apology actually. It would be nice to get one’.
A lovely, important piece.
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
A lovely, important piece.
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
Great interview from Liam Herrick Chief Commissioner of @ihrec.bsky.social on Ireland's legal obligations to asylum seekers.
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
IHREC on how the state is treating migrants
Niall Collins, Minister of State at the Department of Justice; Claire Kerrane, Sinn Féin TD for Roscommon–Galway; Peadar Tóibín, Aontú leader; Liam Herrick, Chief Commissioner of the Irish Human Right...
www.rte.ie
February 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Great interview from Liam Herrick Chief Commissioner of @ihrec.bsky.social on Ireland's legal obligations to asylum seekers.
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
Gutted for Ireland U20 but very chuffed for Eoghan Smyth scoring a TRY in the first half👏👏👏
February 21, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Gutted for Ireland U20 but very chuffed for Eoghan Smyth scoring a TRY in the first half👏👏👏
Reposted by Professor Ursula Kilkelly
Some news, team! 🎙️
I’m so excited to make my broadcasting debut for BBC Radio 4 next week.
‘You Do Not Have to Say Anything’ is a 10 episode behind-the-scenes peek at (and love letter to) the criminal justice system.
Join me, Mon-Fri at 13:45 on BBC Radio 4 & BBC Sounds 🧡
I’m so excited to make my broadcasting debut for BBC Radio 4 next week.
‘You Do Not Have to Say Anything’ is a 10 episode behind-the-scenes peek at (and love letter to) the criminal justice system.
Join me, Mon-Fri at 13:45 on BBC Radio 4 & BBC Sounds 🧡
February 14, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Some news, team! 🎙️
I’m so excited to make my broadcasting debut for BBC Radio 4 next week.
‘You Do Not Have to Say Anything’ is a 10 episode behind-the-scenes peek at (and love letter to) the criminal justice system.
Join me, Mon-Fri at 13:45 on BBC Radio 4 & BBC Sounds 🧡
I’m so excited to make my broadcasting debut for BBC Radio 4 next week.
‘You Do Not Have to Say Anything’ is a 10 episode behind-the-scenes peek at (and love letter to) the criminal justice system.
Join me, Mon-Fri at 13:45 on BBC Radio 4 & BBC Sounds 🧡
Reposted by Professor Ursula Kilkelly
Doing this on March 4 in Dublin with @iccl.bsky.social / Irish Refugee Council: www.eventbrite.ie/e/panel-disc...
February 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Doing this on March 4 in Dublin with @iccl.bsky.social / Irish Refugee Council: www.eventbrite.ie/e/panel-disc...
This is brilliant from the Guardian's Today in Focus on an extraordinary story.
open.spotify.com/episode/3UDi...
open.spotify.com/episode/3UDi...
Lucy Letby and the medical experts who believe she is innocent
Today in Focus · Episode
open.spotify.com
February 12, 2025 at 10:26 AM
This is brilliant from the Guardian's Today in Focus on an extraordinary story.
open.spotify.com/episode/3UDi...
open.spotify.com/episode/3UDi...
Whatever about Man City's demise, you should never bet against Real Madrid n the Champion's League😁
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Real Madrid’s Bellingham settles thriller to leave Manchester City on ropes
Jude Bellingham put Real Madrid 3-2 ahead with the last kick of the game to give his side an advantage in the Champions League playoff against Manchester City
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Whatever about Man City's demise, you should never bet against Real Madrid n the Champion's League😁
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...