Donal Coffey

Everything is on the table Alan.

Send in the forensic accountants at the very least.

An airport and out building in art deco style

A lift with arrow pointing to either Ground, Restaurant, or Second.

Art deco Weston airport.

An airport and out building in art deco style

A lift with arrow pointing to either Ground, Restaurant, or Second.

Art deco Weston airport.

It's part of the Words on the Wave exhibition that displays until 24th October: www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

An old manuscript with some decorative feaures, particularly on sentences beginning with D.

Collectio canonum Hibernesis, on loan from St Gallen to the National Museum of Ireland.

"I had to eventually concede the brilliance of my own argument when drafting this document."

"I had to eventually concede the brilliance of my own argument when drafting this document."

"However the difficulties of Dicey's thesis were pointed out long ago*: and it is not very surprising that the Ceylon Constitution should follow the critics of of Dicey rather than Dicey himself." - W.I. Jennings, citing himself at * as an authority for when he drafted the Ceylonese Constitution.

I'm sure he would graciously agree with the latter half as well, provided you were willing to meet him halfway and agree that it was underinvestment and ideological failure by Sinn Féin.

Stephen Collins: Backing Catherine Connolly is a smart political move by Sinn Féin Paradoxically, though, the success of Sinn Féin in taking control of the left could prove to be the Achilles heel of the Opposition

Judging by his refusal to actually refer to People Before Profit by name (instead using 'Trotskyist'), Stephen Collins appears to be radicalising himself: www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025... I've checked and he used refer to them a couple of years ago.

The last piece written by the great Conor Gearty.

One Battle After Another is as good as the hype around it indicates.

"England, almost alone among the states of Europe, had escaped the infection of the French Revolution." J.H. Morgan

Congrats!

An oil painting on a door cracked open. Some steps barely visible.

Hidden staircase, Newman House.

Screenshot with over 240000000 trees planted by Ecosia and over 10000000 dedicated to climate action.

Ecosia has just gone through €100,000,000 given to climate action and over 240,000,000 trees planted.

Largely unknown parliamentary veto on border poll exists — but Government dismisses possibility of a rogue minister Most people — even those with deep knowledge of the subject — would say confidently that the legal power to call a border poll rests with the Secretary of State alone. I believed so until two days ago...

Until two days ago, I believed the Secretary of State had the sole power to call a border poll. Remarkably, he doesn't. The Government says a little-known fetter on his power means the Commons or the Lords hold a veto. That could be incredibly messy.

Why children should have constitutional rights of their own Abstract. Although children’s rights have in recent years moved from the fringes to the mainstream in international law, there is not yet a consensus on ho

My latest article, published in the International Journal of Constitutional Law, pulls together themes that I have been working on for alnost 25 years.

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Deeply honoured - and a bit taken aback - to discover that The Collaborative Constitution @cambup-law.cambridge.org has been shortlisted for the Inner Temple Book Prize 2025, alongside Sean Coyle, @vmantouvalou.bsky.social & Liron Schmilovitz.

Yes, but with fewer divisions I imagine than in England. There are commercial and planning divisions, but then also a large general area to pick up.

Academic seeks to challenge ‘unlawful’ nomination process for presidential election Process has turned election into ‘complete farce’, claims Dr Cora Stack

This case has no chance of success: Academic seeks to challenge ‘unlawful’ nomination process for presidential election

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What I think was the most recent debate about it wasn't laced with optimism: www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/d... This is a very basic thing that we should do.

Update on School Communications: You may be aware that the school previously maintained an X (formerly Twitter) account. This X account will be deactivated on Wednesday 1st October 2025. Our new Instagram page will become our primary social media channel. (see QR code below)

Interesting - our eldest's school is leaving X and moving to Instagram.

I didn't realise that Hayek was a student of Kelsen's in the University of Vienna.

New Square, chapel on left, with ivy in autumnal shades of red and green.

A small pond with a willow (I think) tree, bridge in distnace, pond mirrors deep blue sky with light clouds.

First day of teaching, Maynooth in autumnal style.

New Square, chapel on left, with ivy in autumnal shades of red and green.

A small pond with a willow (I think) tree, bridge in distnace, pond mirrors deep blue sky with light clouds.

First day of teaching, Maynooth in autumnal style.

Turns out a lot of people are willing to lie about knowing all the words to American Pie.