Professor Ursula Kilkelly

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

By joining the Enhanced Games, Shane Ryan will be a paid stooge of a doped-up circus

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Great to be back running the #halfmarathon and where better than #ClewBay #Mayo

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...

🎉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
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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

Brilliance. Resilience. The Extraordinary Rory McIlroy. Masters Champion.
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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

Great piece from San Francisco Mayor Lurie on the importance of the SF relationship with Cork and with Ireland
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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

Today in Focus from @TheGuardian routinely offers fresh and important perspectives on the issues of the day...like this one
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I've found nothing as good as BBC Sounds unfortunately

Blocking Irish listeners from BBC Sounds app a ‘slap in the face’ Broadcaster is making the change to boost its commercial income

#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. 😔

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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!

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

Thanks for the welcome Chicago. Looking forward to a week of networking, deepening collaboration and celebration of all things #Cork #Ireland @ucc.ie

👩‍🎓✨ 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 🌟

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.

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.
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Fontaines D.C. win BRIT award for the second time Fontaines D.C. have won International Group of the Year at the Brit Awards for the second time.

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👏👏👏

UCC hosts visit by new German ambassador For more than a century, UCC has provided a bridge between Germany and Ireland

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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.

“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 Mayo launch comeback in second half and almost snatch the victory

Armagh and Mayo cannot be separated in thriller at Athletic Grounds

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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’

Dr Lydia Foy: ‘I never got an apology actually. It would be nice to get one’.

A lovely, important piece.

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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...

Great interview from Liam Herrick Chief Commissioner of @ihrec.bsky.social on Ireland's legal obligations to asylum seekers.
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Gutted for Ireland U20 but very chuffed for Eoghan Smyth scoring a TRY in the first half👏👏👏

Experience: I sailed alone around the world aged 16 My parents weren’t thrilled with the idea, but they knew I’d do it anyway

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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 🧡

Doing this on March 4 in Dublin with @iccl.bsky.social / Irish Refugee Council: www.eventbrite.ie/e/panel-disc...

Lucy Letby and the medical experts who believe she is innocent Today in Focus · Episode

This is brilliant from the Guardian's Today in Focus on an extraordinary story.

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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

Whatever about Man City's demise, you should never bet against Real Madrid n the Champion's League😁

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'As the technical elite embeds generative AI into hollowed-out institutions, the administration will carry on its effort to eviscerate independent research institutions.'

Significant consequences for democracy and universities here.

A must read.

Ireland U20’s make light work of Scotland to take opening Six Nations win Charlie Moloney hat-trick aids Ireland to 33-15 win in Edinburgh

Ireland U20’s make light work of Scotland to take opening Six Nations win.🙌

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Kevin Kilbane: Mason Melia’s historic move should spur Government to support the League of Ireland The St Pat’s teenager will find the Premier League ruthless but he has earned a chance to make an impact

Great piece from Kevin Kilbane on why the League of Ireland needs government support.

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Mason Melia to join Spurs from St Pats in first million-pound transfer for League of Ireland player Melia won't be able to make the move officially until the beginning of next year following his 18th birthday in September due to Brexit rules.

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