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‘[A university] is not a club, it is not a trade association, it is not a lobby… it is a community which cannot take collective action on the issues of the day without endangering the conditions for its existence & effectiveness.’ Is Trinity College Dublin still a university?

A superb op-ed in todays Sunday Independent by Eilis O’Hanlon.

Salman Rushdie - Let everyone hear even very offensive speech and ‘trust the audience to be able to make up their own minds'. Student Academics For Academic Freedom ARU Student Academics For Academic Freedom Together Academy of Ideas UNION Dublin Universities AFAF dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

‘Opponents of DEI have long suspected that the embrace of DEI among university leaders is more opportunistic than fanatical.’ To what extent does this hold for Irish university leaders? Could they answer these questions? Academics For Academic Freedom Dublin Universities AFAF

‘Why is Irish media so reticent about covering gender issues? This matter is a hugely important story in Ireland today & deserves coverage to match’ The Irish Times Irish media reticence is bad, but worse is the compelled conformity in our universities—discussed in spiked ⬇️

Well said, Abhishek Saha

Among serving academics in Irish third level institutions, I can think of Colette Colfer and Tim Crowley who properly defend free speech. That is a very short list. Anyone else?

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I have been asked countless times why I never commented on Trinity severing academic ties with Israeli institutions a few weeks ago. Last year was dragged into a meeting with the Junior Dean for criticising a lecturer who celebrated October 7th and I was subjected to a

My blog post today: 'Academic freedom has been shredded at Trinity College Dublin' Thank you to Academics For Academic Freedom Trinity College Dublin Research Ireland Irish Foreign Ministry Department of Further and Higher Education Trinity College Dublin Global TCD TBSI Trinity Business School Times Higher Education European Research Council (ERC) Rachel Moiselle afaf.org.uk/academic-freed… via Dennis Hayes

Dr Jane Mahony has written a powerful piece on how Trinity College Dublin has abandoned academic freedom in fear of the anti-Israel activists on campus. Dublin Universities AFAF Free Speech Ireland Irish Jewish Voice The Jewish Chronicle Lesley Klaff Gerard Casey afaf.org.uk/academic-freed…

At Glastonbury last weekend, punk rap duo Bob Vylan led the crowd in chanting “Death, death to the IDF”, a provocative, politically charged slogan directed at Israel’s army. The performance was broadcast live by the BBC and has since prompted calls for the rappers’ arrest, with

"Criminalising speech because it is felt to be deeply offensive by certain groups is an inherently subjective standard that is easily weaponised"

Greg Lukianoff We must first fight where we are. AFAF, and others, are fighting for free speech in the UK and Ireland - Dublin Universities AFAF . It's great to be joined in this by our fearless student branches. Student Academics For Academic Freedom ARU Student Academics For Academic Freedom

🧵1/ Manchester Metropolitan University currently has a job advert out that, in my opinion, does not comply with the duty of the university to secure freedom of speech and academic freedom.

4/ Taken together, this amounts to an effective requirement that job applicants for this lectureship must commit (or give evidence of commitment) to a particular set of values and viewpoints.

"The expulsion by Emmanuel College creates a precedent that academics in the UK are not allowed to critically examine DEI ideology. With the help of the Free Speech Union, I discovered documents showing that Emmanuel’s own rules make it clear that they did not have the authority

1/ Academics hounded out of jobs due to hostile behaviour by peers or students is bad. But a university firing a staff member for exercising free speech is worse. The case of Nathan Cofnas, as of Noah Carl - both at Cambridge - are the worst violations of academic freedom.

Excellent from the reliably excellent Kathleen Stock

St John Henry Newman, author of ‘The Idea of a University’ - essential reading - to become a Doctor of the Church. Academics For Academic Freedom Student Academics For Academic Freedom Academy of Ideas Dublin Universities AFAF Christian Concern The Catholic Herald Mary Kenny Caroline Farrow vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2…