Good analysis by Eoin here. I would just add that the legislative timetable is not set by the President, so the fact that the Council met so soon on the Bill is a result of the EU setting 1st June as time for Regulation to be transposed and Irish legislation working on that schedule.
Deleted earlier message as had the wrong time: will be on Oireachtas TV at 18.30 Sunday talking about the Council of State.
I think universities should track these numbers in their jurisdictions and disclose them upfront to potential PhD students before they start.
An seated woman, harp to one side, with a quill writing the opening words in a book. The bookstand has the symbols of the 4 provinces.
An Post have re-issued the 1937 commemorative Constitution stamp. That's an allegory of Ireland writing the opening words of the preamble in Irish.
Having shown nothing but hurling this weekend, RTÉ open their coverage on the Sunday Game with the hurling.
An seated woman, harp to one side, with a quill writing the opening words in a book. The bookstand has the symbols of the 4 provinces.
An Post have re-issued the 1937 commemorative Constitution stamp. That's an allegory of Ireland writing the opening words of the preamble in Irish.
Footprints in stone, filled with water and dirt.
Footprints of King George IV in Howth Harbour. Reckon he was about a size 4.
Thomas Bangalter of Daft Punk's DJ set from Alexandra Palace is on youtube to set you up for the weekend: youtu.be/gfF8jzBVWvM?...
For those who don’t know her, @mitrasharafi.bsky.social is one of the leading legal historians of our time, and president of the American Society for Legal History!
PUB. DAY! Fear of the False: Forensic Science and the Law of Crime in Colonial South Asia is officially out today. Available Open Access: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... #legalhistory Outfit: red for bloodstain testing+flowered shirt for botanical poisons+poisoner's ring (for show only)
The Abbey centenary production of the Plough and the Stars is well worth catching before the run ends.
The Healys-Rae meet and act as a collective authority.
If I owe you a response and haven't gotten back to you, apologies. Got into a flow today and got over 3000 words written. Whether any of them are good, only time will tell.
The scene from Whiplash where he gives out about an out of tune player.
MORNING GLORY: Will President Trump go full Sherman in the war on Iran? The famed Civil War general didn’t want to do what he did, but it was necessary Hugh Hewitt By Hugh Hewitt Fox News
Had a quick look over at Fox News to see how they are responding to Trump's lunacy. They are basically egging him on.
: we took some freedoms from US Constitution but Articles 25 and 26 are designed for Indian specific J Bagchi: It is import from Constitution of Ireland
Bagchi J noting the links between the Irish and Indian Constitutions in the Sabrimala case today: www.livelaw.in/amp/top-stor...
It has been a privilege to work as an editor of the Indian Law Review for the last 3.5 years but the time has come for me to leave. I'm sure it will only continue to get better in the future. For anyone working on South Asian law, the journal is here: www.tandfonline.com/journals/ril...
Coming out soon in the Irish Jurist, my musings on what NI experience tells us about displacing the constitutional conventions related to the executive:
Preprint version here:
"Circumscribing the Political Constitution: The Stormont Experience"
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Cologne rather than Aachen in this case.
A German friend maintained the trick to speaking Afrikaans was a sufficient quantity of beer.
Congrats Conor!
I am tremendously honoured to have been appointed today to the Council of State by President Catherine Connolly. It's great to be joined by such distinguished members, with the academy strongly represented. In Ireland, at least, expertise still matters. jrnl.ie/6999677
Congrats!
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Here's the first - T M Healy in Glasnevin.
One of the terrible conceits of contemporary academia is that your work is particularly significant and will be remembered in 100 years. It probably won't - just research stuff you find fun and interesting.
Anyone I was talking to was just chatting about the Mexican games rather than the US one.
There should be an international convention that you get the day off work after your country gets knocked out of the World Cup.
They've all been great tonight in fairness to them.
"It's just pain" - Heimir is in the Irish psychic space