Sinéad Mercier

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

We're hosting our final project event on 29 Sept.

Land, Property and Spatial [In]Justice: Towards a Legal Geography of International Law

W/ project team & stellar guest speakers who influenced us
@amandabyer.bsky.social @sonyacotton.bsky.social @sineadmercier.bsky.social @elaj-ucd.bsky.social

I also find it a little illogical to use Ireland's past refusal of refugees to denigrate someone who, in the present, is foremost in fighting today's refusals. Point is to change things no?

Sorry, I'm out of social media practice and I'm probably missing a joke here! I've known her for years - she learnt Irish in middle age alongside my mom in the Acadamh ar an gCeathrú Rua. She's consistently been great - from water issues to the Mother and Baby Homes. Lovely lady.

Smug/naive does not describe Catherine. She is a well-respected, down to earth, humble and dedicated politician in Galway for over two decades; considered such a steady and fair hand that TDs in the large parties broke the party whip to vote for her as Ceann Comhairle.

Our first project PhD has officially graduated! Congratulations @sonyacotton.bsky.social for her research on the meaning of 'community' in international law, and its effects on legal standing + spatial justice in post-apartheid southern Africa! @amandabyer.bsky.social @sineadmercier.bsky.social

This is a small but significant win for Ireland. bsky.app/profile/were...

Our ERC Research Featured in The Business Post We’re thrilled to share that The Business Post has published a detailed investigative report drawing on findings from our European Research Council-funded project at University College Dublin. The …

We’re thrilled that the @businesspost.bsky.social has published a major investigation based on findings from our @erc.europa.eu-funded project at @ucddublin.bsky.social. It shines a spotlight on how multinationals shift profits through Ireland. A thread👇

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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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