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Is Galway hostile to pedestrians? There’s a video doing the rounds on social media of someone driving through Galway in 1965. The car drives along Bridge Street and Mainguard Street, before turning onto Shop street.

Excellent piece by @illanwall.bsky.social on how Galway is screaming out for better walking instastructure - crossing the road can not be that hard - can it?
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@illanwall.bsky.social is right.

It should be noted, however, that a hierarchy of measures favouring active travel in general has allegedly been official City Council policy for many years. There were TWO walking & cycling strategies published before the #GalwayTransportStrategy arrived in 2016.

Always repost Paul Robeson singing I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night to Scottish coal miners.

Whatever this is, it is not genuine protest!

The Ethics of Justice Without Illusions The founding premise of this book is that the nimbus of prestige, which once surrounded the idea of justice, has now been dimmed to such a degree that it is no longer sufficient to secure the possibil...

Anyone who would like to write something on his work, please let me know and we will do a series on critical legal thinking to mark his passing.

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The Ethics of Justice Without Illusions The founding premise of this book is that the nimbus of prestige, which once surrounded the idea of justice, has now been dimmed to such a degree that it is no longer sufficient to secure the possibil...

Ive just heard the incredibly sad news that Louis Wolcher has died. His work focused on that ethical turn in critical legal studies, he worked with Wittgenstein, Derrida, Levinas, Heidegger, Nietzsche and Zen Buddhism. He wrote extensively, and very beautifully on suffering.

NI parents caught in UK crackdown lose child benefit after travelling via Dublin Exclusive: new anti-fraud system fails to account for fact many return to country via airport in Irish capital

More evidence that the UK Government not only forgets that NI exists, it also forgets that the Common Travel Area exists. This is just a remarkable story of benefits being withdrawn from hundreds of families for using the CTA amid a performative benefit crackdown:

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Scenes of Disappearance The podcast explores the disappearance of 43 students in Mexico, and the Ayotzinapa Protests which have unfolded over the last decade.

Have a listen to this brilliant podcast from one of my former students: Renato Urtus uastegui soundcloud.com/user-5172277...

I hate so much of what happens in my country that I have to remind myself that on the odd occasion magic happens

Tenant awarded €23,000 after discrimination and victimisation The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has awarded €23,000 to a tenant who experienced discrimination and victimisation from his former landlords.

The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has awarded €23,000 to a tenant who experienced discrimination and victimisation from his former landlords.

Have you read the latest issue of the ICLQ?

All articles are fully #OpenAccess.

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My article on how British police monitor social tensions and surveil communities to ensure they don’t protest is available open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Palestine Action's civil disobedience overwhelming London police With Palestine Action a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK, a September protest attended by 1,500 people meant the Met was unable to arrest them all, showing the limits of the criminal justic...

"There are few more serious and consequential charges than terrorism. Even if protestors avoid jail, a successful prosecution for terrorist offences is likely to hover over them for years to come".

@illanwall.bsky.social in the @irishexaminer.bsky.social

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Its definitely going into an article Im doing with @aoifemod.bsky.social on the postcolonial irish constitution. But Ill keep trying to get it into any teaching too.

We have just released 1st report of our legal observers network, following Garda use of force at protest on the 04/10/25 at the port tunnel. We had 7 observers there, whogathered significant evidence of the Gardai's actions on the day. The full report is available here. www.iccl.ie/wp-content/u...

I love this booklet so much! Still trying to figure out how to include it in my land law module 😂

The Land for the People Third Edition, a workbook by Eimear Walshe, commissioned by the National Sculpture Factory. €5 including postage, buy your copy here - buy.stripe.com/4gw6rpbyw0sb...
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Yes higher standards in terms of what goes into the cattle, but slurry is a key component of organic farming. They are still going to present similar problems to nitrogen run off from inorganic fertilisers.

presumably he will gradually sidle over to FF so he can get elected again.

Why is that astonishing? Organic just means they don't use chemical fertiliser and feed? They still have to collect and spread slurry, and so the risks of slurry being released into water are just as significant?

Critical Perspectives on Law, Culture and Justice

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New Book Series: Law, Culture and Justice (Bristol Uni Press) We are delighted to announce a new series to foster critical, theoretically and methodologically innovative, culturally informed work on law and justice.

I'm so happy that this is now live. We have a new book series, edited by Henrique Carvalho, Christine Schwöbel-Patel, Daniel Matthews and I.

Bristol University Press have been a dream to work with, so please do send in your proposals

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Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

"I would smear the bejaysus out of her, simply because you've nothing to lose... you've got to create a fear... in my experience, nothing works like negative campaigning."

They're really openly saying the quiet part out loud now aren't they...🤔

Ive put my piece on Bolivian constitutional experiments (particularly the experiments with a paradoxical separation of powers) up onto SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The Culpable Liberal, The Latte Legalist and the End of the Settler Siege at Sea **We are delighted to say that this post has been translated into Japanese by Yota Negishi, available here** It is the early hours of the morning on the

Delighted that Jo Bluen's post is now available in Japanese: criticallegalthinking.com/2025/09/24/t...

Photo of protesters opposing the ban on Palestine Action, Trafalgar Square, London, 4 October 2025

Netpol's 'State of Protest' report for 2024 launched with a stark title: ‘This is Repression’. On the second anniversary of the continuing genocide in Gaza, it is hard to know what we will call our assessment of protest rights for 2025.

Perhaps ‘An End to Our Illusions’? netpol.org/2025/10/06/a...

The Neoliberal Foundation of the Authoritarian Turn in Higher Education Recent authoritarian attacks on higher education mark a significant shift from the neoliberal era, which celebrated institutional independence from the state, the role of education in boosting worker…

In which I explore how changes in state-level public higher ed governance during the neoliberal era opened space for more recent authoritarian crackdowns.

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