@conorom
Dean of the School of Law, University College Cork. Teaching and researching constitutional law and children's rights. Father of two. Sports fan. Hillwalker and cyclist. https://research.ucc.ie/en/persons/conor-omahony/
Q: You just suggested Iran got a Tomahawk & bombed its own school. But you're the only person in your govt saying this. Even your defense secretary wouldn't say that. Why are you the only person saying this?
TRUMP: I just don't know enough about it. It's something I was told is under investigation.
The High Court has authorised the HSE to provide as a “last resort” blood transfusions and other treatments to a pregnant minor against the wishes of the minor and her parents, who are Jehovah’s Witnesses.
They actually said they will target "every successor". Approval doesn't come into it. Apparently a country of 90 million shouldn't have a leader. And they call others terrorists ...
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#BoycottIsrael #AbolishIsrael #EqualRights
Source:
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CNN and experts confirm: the U.S. military was responsible for the elementary school strike in southern Iran that killed 150+ children
Contribution of family carers 'insufficiently recognised' - President Connolly
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The report from the National Election and Democracy Study (NEDS) research on the 2025 presidential election was released this week. It can be downloaded at www.neds.ie and the full dataset is also available. #NEDS
Saying 'bombing schools is wrong' should be the easiest thing to say in the world.
This is what leadership looks like.
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What and who enables elite impunity in the United States? and what explains the shamelessness?
This statement by Marco Rubio is a thing of beauty. No notes. It can be taken exactly as is and dropped into Orwell's 1984. I believe the correct Homeric adjective for military reasoning like this is "Hell-kissed."
Get thee to the Smithsonian, war crime-speak.
The graves dug for 153 Iranian female school children who were killed by an Israeli-American strike.
Photo: IRNA
As a tiny country, international law is all we've got. It's not a lot but at least it's something.
Ireland fails to defend it at its peril.
“We cannot say that the United States’ actions are against international law, but we condemn Iran’s retaliatory actions as against international law,” is neither a coherent nor a compelling position.
If 150 schoolchildren were killed in a bombing *in* the US, it would be all anyone would hear about for weeks or months. Bit when 150 schoolchildren are killed in a bombing *by* the US, the headlines look like this:
The US killing one and hundred fifty school children in a single attack on Iran has apparently been universally decided to be a non story by the Western press. Not front page news, not in the highlights, instantly memory holed. Profession and institutions worse than worthless.
"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school
If someone blew up a school in America and killed dozens of kids, how would the US Govt respond? I think we all know the answer to that.
And is anyone asking how the hell they hit a school when they had all the time in the world to plan this? It wasn't exactly a volatile situation on the ground.
NEWS! Man who said he wouldn't get involved in foreign wars starts foreign war over nuclear capability he claimed was totally obliterated a few months ago newsthump.com/2026/02/28/m...
Professor Áine Ryall has been re-elected unanimously as Chair of the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee.
The Convention is a multilateral agreement linking the environment and human rights.
She was elected Chair in 2021 and re-elected to serve a second term as Chair in Feb 2026.
Did you know that homes pay twice as much for electricity as data centers do? It's good that that government are helping out the poor scrappy start ups like Amazon and Google 🥹
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“The purpose behind the release of herbicide on the villages remains unclear.”
Israel has been dumping herbicides throughout southern Lebanon as part of a concerted ecocide campaign to render the region uninhabitable. This has been going on for months with Lebanese journalists & environmentalists regularly reporting on it.
The BBC: we don’t know why the Israelis are doing it
It's not a ceasefire if one side keeps firing:
Govt policy is that universities can overcome funding shortfalls by recruiting more students (especially international ones). But how are we supposed to do this if the students have nowhere to live, and the universities have no space in which to teach them?
Student numbers have increased dramaticaly without any corresponding increaase in physical facilities for teaching etc, making timetabling impossible... and now the Govt wants universities to condense timetables because of accommodation shortsges. Go figure.
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A short blogpost reflecting on the benefits of strengthening your profile as an ECR
The Centre for Law & the Environment, School of Law UCC was delighted to welcome the UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment to University College Cork on 13 February as part of her official country visit to Ireland.
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