Alan Greene

For sale: baby shoes, never worn. Baby got too big. Really big really fast. Not sure if we're doing something right or something wrong. This is a giant baby. They hardly ever wear shoes anyway.
- Ernest Hemingway

Does this extend to Leinster titles as well?

It's hard to look at the discourse surrounding human rights in the UK today and not think that JS Mill was right.

I hear there's a lock-in in Fagan's tonight...
#Aras25

Politics has been so depressing and miserable recently.
I really needed a good ol' Fianna Fáil omnishambles to cheer me up. #Aras25.

D'oh! #JimGaffen #Aras25

Damn, he withdrew before I even thought of "Jim Gaffen" 🤦‍♂️
#Aras25

I love how he can't even withdraw without a gaffe. #Aras25

We didn't even have time to go to the shop to buy the lettuce...

Labour are doing an excellent job of putting all the infrastructure in place for a far right Reform/ Tory government to do what Trump is doing in America.
And their ECHR-bashing is like handing them the keys to do it.

The conflation between pro-Palestine/anti-genocide protests and the attack on the Manchester synagogue is disgusting, dangerous, and deeply cynical.

Police to get broader powers to crack down on repeated protests The move is not a ban on protests but

The UK's three main political parties are just different flavours of authoritarianism at this stage.
This country is at a dangerous crossroads and every potential path looks bleak.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A day to wonder “why couldn’t you have found contract law or trusts as interesting at university, David?”

Bravo.

Lammy heckled at vigil for Manchester synagogue attack; one victim died after apparently being hit by police bullet – latest Justice secretary faces calls of ‘shame on you’ as crowd gathers to remember victims of terror attack

Deeply, deeply saddening to see people at the Manchester vigil just saying quite bluntly that they feel marches against genocide in Gaza are, in fact, directed against all Jewish people.

This is exactly what both terrorists and genociders want.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

Mahmood: Pro-Palestinian protests 'un-British' after terror attack The home secretary told BBC Breakfast she was disappointed pro-Palestinian protests went ahead.

Another disgusting conflation between the Manchester attack and peaceful political protest.
This is vile and authoritarian.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

YouTube video by Dr Alan Greene How the British King Lost his Power

New video in my Coffee Time Constitutional Law Series: How the British King Lost His Power. In this video, I explain the UK's evolution into a constitutional monarchy and the pivotal clashes between the Crown and Parliament in the 1600s.

youtu.be/xIrRjPdgAQg?...

Police ask for Palestine Action protest to be postponed to free up officers in wake of terror attack Exclusive: Group organising protest says it will go ahead as planned and it is up to Met police whether or not it diverts resources to make arrests

This is a disgusting conflation by the police of an abhorrent act of political violence and antisemitism on the one hand, and a completely unconnected peaceful political protest on the other.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

This is absolutely horrific. To attack a synagogue and kill people, and that too on Yom Kippur. Vile and inexcusable.

Fucking hell - awful.

On top of a serious racial assault in Bristol last night as well. Feels like things are very much spinning out: we need to take this shit on in every way.

Having a flashback to when a senior Garda contacted my college in Oxford to try to get me expelled because of my conviction

Then head of the college former DPP Ken McDonald told me about it in a slightly embarrassed tone

Funnily enough, he also had a conviction for drug dealing

Allegation-Picking Archives - Strasbourg Observers

Pleased to see that Strasbourg Observers is now tagging blogs if they cover judgments that discuss "allegation-picking."
A new concept is born...
strasbourgobservers.com/category/all...

Jury trial is the gold standard according to the Irish constitution.

The UK prosecutes terrorist offences all the time before juries. I see no reason why Ireland cannot either.

Man charged with terror offences, arson of McGregor's pub A 23-year-old man charged in connection with an attack in Dublin city centre in July, during which a garda was stabbed, has been further charged with arson and terrorist offences.

The Independent Review Group into the Offences Against the State Acts was unanimous in recommending the abolition of scheduled offences. I find it hard to see why this case could not go before a jury.

www.rte.ie/news/courts/...

Google is broken.

Mao&S

Ruben Amorim: the Morgan McSweeney of football managers.

YouTube video by Dr Alan Greene Does the UK Have a Constitution?

The first of my Coffee Time Constitutional Law video series is now available. This is aimed at students of Public Law as well as anybody wanting to learn more about the UK Constitution.

More videos will follow in this series ASAP. I promise!

youtu.be/9W37_ece4Bg?...

Starmer to unveil digital ID cards in plan set to ignite civil liberties row ‘Brit card’ already facing opposition from privacy campaigners as government looks for ways to tackle illegal immigration

Civil liberties = good.
Human rights= bad.

They should print that on the Brit Card.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...