What Michael D Higgins actually said: ‘You should ask where the criticism came from and how the letter was circulated, and by whom, and for what purpose.’ Not ‘leak’ but ‘circulated’ and asking that question – ‘and for what purpose’ – is the most basic principle of media theory

Ireland must act now to seize a unique opportunity to balance its economy and set solid foundations for reunification by building Limerick and other regional cities. My letter in todays The Irish Times David McWilliams #Limerick #Ireland #reunification

“The Dignified and the Efficient”

Beware these Dworkinian Wolves (in ‘Neo-Elyian’ Clothing) | European Constitutional Law Review | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/4gCyWCt My review of Aileen Kavanagh's and Ros Dixon's landmark books is free to access in the European Constitutional Law Review.

Excited to share my new paper “The Coming of Age of Deliberative Constitutionalism”, published in The Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence! Check it out! doi.org/10.1017/cjlj.2…. Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press - Academic Cambridge Core

Regular reminder: We in the North/NI are still not permitted to vote for our own President. Shared island, apparently.

Jason Hickel explains how we can easily solve the climate crisis 🌍 Full video: youtube.com/watch?v=6dBy4-…

Our ‘neutrality’ doesn’t need to fit with some specific approved version of it. We are free to adopt and maintain an idiosyncratic and constructively ambiguous position in accordance with our national sovereignty. That is our prerogative

Law isn’t a science – more of an humanity – and it’d be good to remember that next time government uses the attorney general as an excuse for not doing something popular His advice is – almost always – written to fit a certain set of conditions and adhere to government orthodoxy

I recently published this article about the failures of article 26, which allows the president to refer bills to Supreme Ct to test their constitutionality in the 'abstract'. I argue the main failure is the reference mechanism itself, not the abstraction papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

'Constitutional dialogue' between the President and other branches of government

In my parents’ in Mayo watching RTÉ News for the first time in ages and it’s mostly just uncritically repeating Israeli announcements with a few “allegedly”s thrown in

in case anyone is sick of the breathless speculation about the timing of the general election, it's worth a reminder that the Citizen's Assembly recommended removing the Taoiseach's near-absolute power to decide the timing of elections citizensassembly.ie/citizens-assem…

Join us for a TriCON seminar on Nov 5th 5.30pm discussing a paper by Seán Rainford comparing constitutional amendment in Ireland and India - with discussants Donal Coffey & Suryapratim Roy TCD Law School chaired by TriCON Director Aileen Kavanagh. All welcome.

Having been an attendee at TriCON since I started my PhD, it's exciting (and daunting!) to be presenting there on 5 Nov. I'll be talking about the hidden similarities between 🇮🇪 and 🇮🇳 constitutional amendment regimes.

DCU has conferred the award of Doctor of Philosophy (Honoris Causa) on Chief Justice Donal O’Donnell. He joins noted figures from politics, sport, literature and industry in receiving this award from DCU. Read here: launch.dcu.ie/40hNlhx #DCUHonorary

One of the many lost lines from James Connolly. This is from a letter to the Edinburgh Evening News on 8 August 1894.