Parental perspectives on how homelessness affects children’s access and participation in education in an Irish context explore.bps.org.uk/content/bpsecp… This is the direct link to the paper. Huge thanks and credit to Children's Rights Alliance for commissioning this research

Remember the pressure South Africa faced to arrest Putin if he attended the BRICS summit there. Defying the ICC, Europe said, was a red line Now Europe is destroying the very laws & institutions it helped build to allow Netanyahu to continue his genocide aje.io/b59pm3

"Majority of cycle lanes" across Cork starting and ending in shared paths is normalising cycling on footpaths, campaigners say irishcycle.com/2025/01/10/maj…

At least 173 children have now been killed by the IDF in the West Bank since Oct 7. The West Bank, where there are no Israeli hostages being held, no Hamas strongholds to be uncovered, no fog of war. Just the slaughter of children by a vengeance-drunk, US taxpayer-funded army.

Hopefully this context will be heard loud and clear. Hostages could have been released a long time ago. And thousands of innocent people wouldn’t be dead, starving or suffering mercilessly.

A deal for releasing the hostages has been on the table for an entire year, and Netanyahu has repeatedly scuttled it to preserve his government, which is dependent upon his criminal alliance with the Kahanist right wing | Haaretz Editorial haaretz.com/opinion/editor…

I think it’s fair to say that it has long been a consensus view amongst constitutional law commentators that the “super junior” ministers are constitutionally questionable. Here’s one of several passages about this from our book Kelly: The Irish Constitution.

⚡️🇮🇱JUST IN: An Israeli lawyer has filed submissions to the ICC against 8 Israeli officials including Netanyahu and Herzog for incitement to genocide. Omer Shatz, an Israeli lawyer, is filing a lawsuit at the International Criminal Court against eight Israeli officials,

🚨The Israeli army has killed 71 Palestinians since the announcement of the ceasefire agreement, 65% of whom were women and children. These have been Israel’s targets since the beginning of the genocide.

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It is clear that Netanyahu's position is that there is only really one phase to the announced three phase deal. Israeli sources are claiming they received assurances from both Biden and Trump they could resume the war against Gaza with minimal official justification for violating

We are moving to Bluesky and will be closing our X account next month. Follow us on Bluesky at SWCONFUCC.bsky.social for updates on our national #childprotection and welfare #socialwork conference in October 2025. IASW Tusla - Child and Family Agency @UCCsocialwork Practice Links (@UCCsocialwork) FiachraOSuilleabhain (He/Him)

The Children’s Rights Alliance is calling for child protection to be an absolute priority in the lifetime of this new Government in light of two new inspection reports published today by HIQA 📄Read our full press release here: bit.ly/4h0uqNW

Inhuman conditions in Irish prisons due to overcrowding irishexaminer.com/news/arid-4155…

If this was a 15 year old Israeli boy, killed by Palestinian militants, it would trigger outrage across the West. Everyone would regard it as a disgusting end to any ceasefire. None of this applies, because Western politicians and media don't think Palestinians are humans.

Trump just withdrew the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement. The US now joins Iran, Libya, and Yemen as the only countries in the world not in the agreement.

Role of ‘super junior’ ministers may be politically convenient, but it is constitutionally dubious - #mustread OpEd by Eoin Daly in The Irish Times irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/0…