Sinéad Mercier

Thinking about historical parallels. People talk about coups and autogolpes, the fascist seizure of power in the 1930s, and there are resemblances. But there are other models we could think about.

Some amazing maslaigh here for feminist reclamation. www3.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaeilge/focl...

A collection of pink garden flowers with hand written labels on a white fabric background

The colour pink has been shown to shift our brains away from fight or flight & into rest & digest. Here are some botanical pinks to let your eyes pause on for a while in case your Monday has stress in it:

“Failure of a State to take appropriate action… including through fossil fuel production, fossil fuel consumption, the granting of fossil fuel exploration licences or the provision of fossil fuel subsidies — may constitute an internationally wrongful act which is attributable to that State.”

Time and politics are cyclical on this island....
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Canvassed there for repeal 😊 lovely people, very forward thinking minds alright ✨

left side has a pic of audre lorde-black black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet, with hands by her face. right side white text on black background that says, "Women of Color in America have grown up within a symphony of anger at being silenced at being unchosen, at knowing that when we survive, it is in spite of a world that takes for granted our lack of humanness, and which hates our very existence outside of its service. And I say symphony rather than cacophony because we have had to learn to orchestrate those furies so that they do not tear us apart. We have had to learn to move through them and use them for strength and force and insight within our daily lives. Those of us who did not learn this difficult lesson did not survive. And part of my anger is always libation for my fallen sisters."

left side: white text on black background, "Every woman has a well-stocked arsenal of anger potentially useful against those oppressions, personal and institutional, which brought that anger into being. Focused with precision it can become a powerful source of energy serving progress and change. And when I speak of change, I do not mean a simple switch of positions or a temporary lessening of tensions, nor the ability to smile or feel good. I am speaking of a basic and radical alteration in those assumptions underlining our lives. " right side, pic of audre lorde-black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet, with hands in her pockets

Re-learning from Auntie Audre and working to focus my rage with precision.

Webinar: Israeli bonds and the Central Bank | Financial Justice Ireland Join Financial Justice Ireland for this webinar, where we will host a panel discussion on the Central Bank of Ireland’s continued trading of Israel’s government bonds. Israeli ‘war bonds’ …

This day next week!

We'll host a panel discussing the Central Bank's trading of Israel’s 'war bonds'

Featuring: Senator @aliceeire.bsky.social , Helen Mahony @ipsc.bsky.social, Faten Sourani (Trócaire), John Reynolds (Maynooth Law)

📣Spread the word!

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I hope all this comes across well to you, I think you're great Anna and I hate being online!

Airbnb landlords and holiday home owners are squeezing native speakers out of Gaeltacht areas A consequence of the housing crisis is that it is accelerating the decline of the Irish language

There are overarching problems of course & I know holiday homes can be more complicated when emigrants are seeking to maintain ties to the area. However, re Airbnb between Bearna & Carna, 4 homes are available for rent, 197 are on AirBnB. The Banú campaign highlights this tuairisc.ie/slais-eile-d...

I agree with you ☺️ I used the phrase 'immediate' deliberately here as I see it as an emergency act that could be taken without delay to ameliorate crisis. Many people I know are struggling to find a place to live in Co.Galway at the moment. Airbnb & holiday homes are having a significant impact.

The most immediate way to revitalise the Irish language and stem the flow of young people from rural Ireland would be to ban Airbnb.

"The EU supplies at least a third of Israel’s arms imports and has its most comprehensive association agreement with the country. Conditional on respect for international law.

If the political will exists, the EU has the means to act."

- Josep Borrell, past EU Foreign Policy High Representative.

The immense popularity of of the PetiteKnit 'Sophie Scarf' is in opposition to conservative US interpretations of tradwife aesthetics. Instead a subtle show of the wearer's support of postwar central economic planning, anti-nuclear green peace politics & municipal district heating & cooling schemes.

Does the popularity of Scandi girl style & hygge home decor reveal the people's desire for Folkhemmet? When democratic socialism is shut out from our everyday life - the workplace, politics, media - the longing for bread & roses finds expression in sheepskin throws & a classy mule/barrel jean combo.

It was wonderful to have the Property[in]Justice gals (including @sineadmercier.bsky.social and @amandabyer.bsky.social) together again. Thank you so much @owenmcintyre.bsky.social for this brilliant conference, very impressed that you even managed to make the weather amazing for the event.

Call for Papers: The Irish Political Constitution.
Symposium date: Friday 28th November 2025, NUI Merrion Square.
Deadline for Abstracts: 30 May 2025
We have an agreement in principle to publish a special issue of the Irish Jurist containing papers presented at the symposium

Choices in government.

A beautiful quote from Justine McCarthy in a beautiful paragraph in Diarmaid Ferriter's new book: "It is criticising that has brought about some of the most attractive features of modern Ireland" - bringing a little heart leap of hope for the future in these dark times ☀️

Omissions, caveats and false balance: How media is failing Palestinians, the international order and our profession - The Currency “Legal scholars tend to sharpen their pens after the smell of death has dissipated and moral clarity is no longer urgent.” This is a line from an article penned by Palestinian human rights lawyer Rabe...

"You’re scared of doing the right thing because the right thing comes with a price, and I stand proud with it because I take that price as the price of humanity, a price that I can bear, and you should do the same” - Francesca
Albanese
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In 2023, and despite lack of government opposition, a Bill to protect Ireland's environment and meet climate goals lapsed with the dissolution of the Dáil. Jamie McLoughlin explores this innovative and potentially transformative Bill in more detail: elajucd.com/2025/03/15/a...

My paper "Self-Determination in the Age of Algorithmic Warfare" has just been published in the EJLS. It argues that the use of AI-DSS in Gaza, purportedly improving IHL compliance, justify the entrenchment of surveillance and thus violate the right to self-determination. ejls.eui.eu/issues/speci...

Our children are robbed of their freedom - and sometimes their lives - because streets are designed for traffic, not their safety.

Absolutely appalling. The fact that our own police force would engage in tactics designed to systematically subjugate and silence women in Northern Ireland. Really shocked at this. www.rte.ie/archives/col...

Overheard in central southside Dublin: "It's a great business to be in..."
"What?"
"Wealth."

i'm bringing my Arms Embargo Bill back to Seanad tomorrow! Myself & my Seanad CEG colleagues want an end to Ministerial exemptions that allow flights to carry weapons directly or indirectly through Ireland to Israel. No more 'turn a blind eye' complicity in horrific breaches of international law👇

Two Irish citizens ordered to leave Germany over pro-Palestinian protests despite no convictions Lawyers say the move undermines civil liberties for EU citizens

Two Irish citizens ordered to leave Germany over pro-Palestinian protests despite no convictions. Lawyers say the move undermines civil liberties for EU citizens.

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Legal Transfer and Legal Geography in the British Empire

Thank you to Otto, Stefan & @donalcoffey.bsky.social & the @property-injustice.bsky.social team. All articles free & available to read open access here: www.lhlt.mpg.de/publications...

Some exciting post this morning. My copy of Legal Transfer and Legal Geography in the British Empire arrived today from @maxplancklaw.bsky.social - includes my chapter 'A Haunting Absence' on the origins of international energy law in the legal techniques used in the colonial conquest of Ireland.