I wonder how Ryanair purports to levy this 'fine'? Maybe it's in the same vein as Dublin Bus's €100 'standard fare' where everyone gets a €98 discount if they pay the driver up-front when they get on the bus.
Political philosophers! Please consider encouraging your students to apply for this PhD position on the global governance of technology. The Ethics Institute is a great place to work! It hosts one of the largest and most international group of practical philosophers in Europe.
If philosophy is anything to go by, the deepest wound comes from the phrase "x is very much a 'big picture' person."
Political theory/philosophy job in our Department!
Deadline 26 May.
Happy to answer questions by email.
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Anyone interested in doing a PhD in Labour Law with me @maynoothlaw.bsky.social ?
#phd #funding #scholarships
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'Reform of Stormont: Options for Discussion' was published by the @conunitucl.bsky.social today! Co-authored by @alanrenwick.bsky.social, @alanwhysall.bsky.social, and myself.
It is free to read here: www.ucl.ac.uk/constitution...
Before you went all downer at the end with the Irish ah-sure-jaysising the authoritarian spying initiative.
Absolutely loved this.
EU counter tariffs against the US pose a problem for exporters in Northern Ireland
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20 years since I taught this and never in a sophisticated way, but this sounds so good. What I had was a kind of Plato-Augustine-Hobbes-Locke-Rawls thing, not very imaginative or sufficiently disruptive on my part looking back at it.
I genuinely wondered if you were joking because I had such a flashback to this: archive.org/details/plat... That I recall, other than a guest appearance by Arendt it's untroubled by encumbrances such as women or non Europeans...
Really pleased to see this happen. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
Counter-threats from Co Clare
The Guardian website asking users to "Choose your advertising preferences", so either to "get Guardian Ad-Lite for £5/month" or to "read the Guardian with personalised ads."
Oh interesting to see that the Guardian has adopted Meta's forced consent route around GDPR.
Final reminder that our Collaborative PhD application process closes on Monday 10 March! 'Finding “home” in a cultural landscape of migration and belonging' is open to those from the UK/RoI (check advert for more details) #phdopportunities #irishdiaspora
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I was exhausted on his behalf by the time he got to America: what a life.
Street Art 3D Mural by Dutch artist Leon Keer in Ostend Belgium
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I accompanied two teens to this last night. I was possibly the least big hair and luscious beard man in the whole joint. Sad to think that my days as boring accompanier for this kind of fun are numbered.
They're both from Belfast and are effusive in praise about another person? I smell a rat. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
The people of Cork will be sad at the lack of cornage though.
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Yeah I noticed it was depressing and crap as I flew back in from a lovely week in Madrid JUST SO YA KNOW www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Enjoyed this and it's sobering but I do think we all need a mindset shift: instead of comparing travel to burning carbon by the tonne and externalising the consequences, we need to compare to when travel was powered by donkeys and thus rarely if ever happened. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
That three impacts graph is astounding. No hiding from that.
Slide showing a system dynamic graphic (Paul Price 2021-09-03 DCU-ECRN CC-BY) of feedback loops and drivers of Irish milk production with additional annotations identifying limits, mostly undermined, and state agencies and government policies that have enabled milk production expansion.
Line chart for Dairy in Ireland since 1990 showing changes in absolute totals (milk, methane, nitrogen-excreted and cow numbers) and efficiency improvements for milk/cow, methane/litre, N-ex/litre. While milk quota was fully in place, total methane and N-ex reduced to stable level 2005-2010. After milk quota relaxed from 2010 and then was removed in 2015, a sharp rise in total methane and N-ex has occurred, contrary to climate action and water improvement commitments. Base chart from Price, P.R., 2023. Carbon Budgets to Inform Climate Action: A society-wide, integrated GHG quota and accounting perspective (Working Paper No. 19). Climate Change Advisory Council. https://www.climatecouncil.ie/councilpublications/councilworkingpaperseries/Paul%20R%20Price%20Working%20Paper%20No%2019.pdf
Slide from Paul Price, Oxford Real Farming Conference #orfc2025 2025. Two bar charts showing 2022 data for Ireland relative to Denmark, the EU-27 average, UK, and Germany. Agriculture share of total Irish GHG emissions is very high (37%); and, ruminant enteric methane emissions per capita (2.9 tCO2e/person) is exceptionally high. Chart for dairy nitrogen shows N-excreted from cows decreasing while milk quota remained fully in place up to 2010, then a sharp rise in N-ex (driving up air and water pollution) from 2010 onwards as dairy expansion occurred.
Schematic stock-flow diagram focussed on nitrogen flow and losses, and related animal methane. The crucial driver in modern intensive "grass-fed" farming is a linear input of synthetic chemical fertiliser for grass and feed production as inputs to milk and livestock farming. Base chart from Price, P.R., 2023. Carbon Budgets to Inform Climate Action: A society-wide, integrated GHG quota and accounting perspective (Working Paper No. 19). Climate Change Advisory Council. https://www.climatecouncil.ie/councilpublications/councilworkingpaperseries/Paul%20R%20Price%20Working%20Paper%20No%2019.pdf
Here are 4 slides from my lecture, "State-enabled regulatory capture?", this week to a class at Trinity Business School in Dublin. I focused on Irish dairy expansion since 2010, its profit-takers & facilitators, & its highly negative impacts for climate action, pollution & farm/food resilience.
Early Morning Love Poem Duvet, you are so groovet, I’d like to stay under you all of Tuesdet. Brian Bilston
Early morning love poem.
Lovely Cork: we won't see such things up here in Mordor at least until March.
It would concentrate everyone's minds beautifully if there was a nominal charge to _receive_ each one...with the option not to pay.
I was out like a madman at early o'clock with a kitchen knife cutting the mat/sail off the recently airborne trampoline. The tethers didn't survive the night and it was threatening to make a break for Scotland...
