Daragh Murray

Just saw a post with George Clinton citing the Beatles as his favorite band, which reminded me of this quote he once gave me

And, starmo has already broken every manifesto pledge. So…

If you are considering the LLM in International Criminal Law at the Irish Centre for Human Rights @uniofgalwaylaw.bsky.social, our annual Summer School on the International Criminal Court provides a helpful taster of what is covered in the LLM.

Online this year, with registration now open.

Watch this, it's astonishing.

Just at the historical moment British universities were becoming more live to their communities,

as first generation students and staff made them anew,

they are instead being lost as spaces of collective knowledge-generation

through failure to fund them as public infrastructure

Thrilled to have received the updated paperback edition of *Human Shields*, including a new Preface and Epilogue about the use of human shields during the genocide in Gaza.

‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university? When Essex University’s Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degr...

'When it opened, the campus housed a GP surgery and a new dental clinic offering free treatment to local people. This was followed later by the forum – a library and art gallery shared by the university and local people.' 1/2

Aonghus Kelly named human rights advisor to NI Policing Board Aonghus Kelly has been appointed as human rights advisor to the Northern Ireland Policing Board.

Aonghus Kelly has been appointed as human rights advisor to the Northern Ireland Policing Board.

Solidarity to Essex and hope that other universities learn from the problems with relentlessly pursuing a ‘growth’ agenda

Devastatingly sad.
Every Labour MP should be forced to read this. In fact, every MP, who rushed back to Parliament to vote to save one steel mill, whilst hastening the collapse of dozens of universities - and harming the students, staff, communities and economies universities sustain and support

Everybody knew, nobody said’.
#OTD in 1984, Ann Lovett lay down in the rain in the grotto behind St Mary's Church, Granard & gave birth to a full-term baby boy. She was found alive around 4pm by three schoolboys but died later that day. www.dib.ie/biography/lo... #DIBLives

Innovative but Precarious: The Challenge of Running Open-Source Investigations Labs at Public Universities [Alexa Koenig, PhD, MA, JD, is a research professor at UC Berkeley School of Law, faculty director of UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center, and director and co-founder of the center’s Investigations L…

In a new @opiniojuris.bsky.social blog, HRC's @alexakoenig.bsky.social & @bmcg-leyh.bsky.social from @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social reflect on the challenges of running open source investigations labs at public universities: opiniojuris.org/2026/01/12/i...

And since when are human rights against the national interest? Actual impact of human rights law in these cases is not significantly different from law of armed conflict (if appropriately argued by government)

Labour is arguably currently a centre right party, in at least quite a few respects

YouTube video by Billy Bragg BILLY BRAGG - CITY OF HEROES

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...

400 jobs at risk. A campus set to close.

This film explains what’s happening at the University of Essex and why staff, students and the local community are organising to stop it.

📍 Southend rally | 5 February

Obama says Alex Pretti killing a ‘tragedy’ as calls mount for full investigation Former president says killing should be ‘wake-up call’ and that federal agents are not operating in a lawful way

Not a tragedy, an execution

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Associate Director of Student Programming- Human Rights Center - School of Law University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

Interested in joining our team? Check out our role for Associate Director of Student Programming. You'll be responsible for instructional design, academic year planning, administrative management, and partner/staff coordination for our Investigations Lab:
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05220

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Well that’s me locked out. No pay for the foreseeable future, all because I refuse to reschedule lost teaching, for which I have already lost pay as part of the strike. Please donate to support @sheffielducu.bsky.social members like me at www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...

UK drops target for international student recruitment Government to encourage education providers to open campuses overseas as it focuses on reducing migration

In any other context, requiring a high-productivity sector to offshore the production of its highest value-added exports would be seen as the economic illiteracy it so obviously is...

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So effort required :) 🤦‍♂️

Have you managed to make Bluesky work for you? It’s solid, but I’m finding nowhere near the reach or variety of heyday Twitter. Haven’t put much work in tho. Obviously left X long ago.

We already pay people to drive to work through fuel subsidies, tax reliefs, cheap parking and road investment. So why don’t we pay people to cycle instead?

Cycling to work improves physical and mental health, cuts emissions, reduces congestion, and lowers healthcare costs, to name a few benefits 🚲💚

Didn’t deserve it tho

‘Made in Ireland’ – Ten years on, what has changed for business and human rights in Ireland? Over a decade ago, in the very first substantive post I wrote for this blog, I discussed how parts of a drone used in attacks on civilians in Darfur were made in Ireland. The post illustrated how o…

The Irish Government's foot dragging on addressing the scandal of AI generated abusive material on X is not an aberration.

There has been a decade of avoiding any meaningful steps on business and human rights

My final post on the BHRI blog:

businesshumanrightsireland.wordpress.com/2023/08/01/m...

I mean, sure, if there was a war and they snuck up on some soldiers by adopting the trappings of civil aviation, you might call it a war crime. But since there wasn’t one and they snuck up on some civilians who were probably fishermen and at worst drug dealers, it’s just fuckin murder.

YouTube video by Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life Further Information for Fellowship Applicants

Our @leverhulmecal.bsky.social postdoctoral fellowship posts close for applications on 30 January. A few reflections on the frequently asked questions we have received. So much looking forward to reading your applications and building our team together youtube.com/watch?v=x4AMkxhe4bQ

Civil society groups condemn ‘dangerous’ plans for more anti-protest powers Dozens including TUC join force to oppose ‘wide-ranging’ move to increase police powers in England and Wales

More than 40 civil society groups say an amendment in the crime and policing bill requiring police to consider the “cumulative impact” of repeated protests in the same area represents a “draconian crackdown on our rights to freedom of expression and assembly” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

If you were part of the Robodebt class action settlement, you may be eligible for compensation. Registration for compensation ends in early March 2026. Make sure you’re registered. Contact Gordon Legal if you haven’t received a information document package from Services Australia

YouTube video by Track Star* Testing CMAT's Music Knowledge | Track Star*

CMAT international pop sensation

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