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Bosom pals

Currently getting our candidate comparison site ready for #directlyelectedmayor for #limerick . We will help voters navigate this crowded field, showing you who you align with on local issues.

Together with Abdul Ghafar Noury & IEP@BU, we have launched a new website, showing the roll-call votes in European Parliament by MEP, group, and country, going back to 2004 (inspired by VoteWatch Europe). You can download the data for free!

Please spread the word
epvm.iep.unibocconi.eu

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Statement against the boycott of Israeli academics, jointly drafted with Anne Rethmann and Helmut Smith. Please see attached and, if you agree, consider signing. To do this, scroll down the list of names. More than 2500 colleagues have done so already: forms.gle/ZrefTim9FECWdE…

Waiting for brekkie

In the absence of the head zoo keeper I’m in survival mode here

And so it begins

oe1.orf.at/programm/20240…

🗳️ 🇪🇺A new app has been launched to help voters explore and understand the positions of candidates competing in the upcoming European elections.

The creators of the EU&I app hope that this new platform will encourage Irish citizens to vote in June.

Team Ireland lead

A sight that current and former University College Dublin students will know well. I’m heading in to check if my students are settling ok.

Awful that Janet Horner had to face violent abuse like this. But this dramatic deterioration in behaviour towards politicians is striking (if not frightening). Growing toxicity definitely, but I do wonder if the COVID crisis has played a part

irishtimes.com/politics/2024/…

Absolutely agree

Our first time in doggy-friendly Pye in the real Dundrum village. Well worth a visit.

The head zoo keeper in our house is away, leaving me in charge of the feeding regime 😟 (Mike's the seagull, and Midnight a stray kitty)

Excited to see website details appearing for the new edition of Electoral Systems, which is to be published later this year bloomsbury.com/uk/electoral-s…

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Bloody typical. A once-in-a-lifetime chance to photograph the aurora borealis in Dublin and I'm stuck in a hotel bedroom in Seoul!

Who is that dickhead?