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Sinéad Mercier
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Militant optimist. PhD researcher at UCD Law School PROPERTY [IN]JUSTICE project and consultant in climate, environment, planning law and policy. Gaeilge agus fáilte.
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📣Book Review Forum: Landscape, Law and Justice - 20 Years (eds. Jones, Strecker, Setten & Mitchell)

by Michael Jones, @amandabyer.bsky.social, Benedetta Castiglioni, @sonyacotton.bsky.social, Luca Muscarà, Amy Stecker, Gunhild Setten & Don Mitchell

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Book Review Forum: Landscape, Law and Justice - 20 Years
Published in Landscape Research (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
sineadmercier.bsky.social
Congratulations to the brilliant and lovely Dr. Raphael Ng'etich - watch this space he's already making waves! 🌳🍃🌊 His research is fascinating.
property-injustice.bsky.social Property(In)Justice @property-injustice.bsky.social · 6d
Our second project PhD has officially graduated! Congratulations to Dr Raphael Ng'etich whose research analysed the impact of carbon credit schemes on the governance of unregistered community land in Northern Kenya!

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December 8, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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spdonlan.bsky.social
'What we too rarely notice is how our legal education shapes the very categories through which we think. The result is not only that we produce different answers to similar questions, but that we often do not ask the same questions at all.'
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Reading Lists and Legal Traditions: Mapping How Legal Scholars Think Across Jurisdictions
A striking feature of legal education lies in the way it comes to feel natural to us. We easily forget that our training is rooted in a particular time and place. We know that law differs across th…
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December 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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joenoonan.bsky.social
"I never imagined a human being created by God would do this." www.bbc.com/news/article...
Record settler attacks in West Bank opening up rifts within Israel
More than 260 settler attacks in October resulted in Palestinians being injured or having property damaged, according to the UN.
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November 15, 2025 at 11:08 AM
sineadmercier.bsky.social
Looking forward to facilitating this discussion on the launch of Patrick Bresnihan and Pat Brodie's fascinating new book 'From the Bog to the Cloud'. This evening at TU Dublin, 6:30-8pm. See you there!
tudublinsustain.bsky.social TU Dublin Sustainability / OT Baile Átha Cliath Inbhuanaitheacht @tudublinsustain.bsky.social · Nov 6
TALK: From the Bog to the Cloud: A Critical Conversation on Ireland’s Green Transition. Join a thought-provoking evening with the authors. How does Ireland’s green transition intersect with monopoly tech, digital infrastructure, and postcolonial politics?
www.tudublin.ie/explore/abou...
From the Bog to the Cloud - In Conversation with Authors Patrick Bresnihan and Patrick Brodie
From the Bog to the Cloud - In Conversation with Authors Patrick Bresnihan and Patrick Brodie
www.tudublin.ie
November 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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#12 An Clogán - Cé gur tugadh ainm Gaelach ar an irisleabhar, chuir sé díomá orm nach raibh alt Gaeilge ar bith ann. Ar scor ar bith, cuid mhór ábhar machnaimh atá ann - ná hailt le @sineadmercier.bsky.social , @clairemitchell.bsky.social , Martina Anderson agus Ursula Ní Shionnain go háirid
Irisleabhar 'An Clogan' le clúdach glas agus an fotheideal 'The Republic'
October 26, 2025 at 11:35 AM
sineadmercier.bsky.social
A beautiful heartfelt essay by my mom Anne Gately Mercier aired on RTE's Sunday Miscellany last weekend. Outing the family as turf-cutters - but change is afoot where we once footed turf. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
One Step from the Bog by Anne Gately Mercier
A turf lorry, a father’s roots and becoming the proud owners of a Connemara bog
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October 31, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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From the 1990 Presidential Election
Is the Left Right for the Park? Do you want radical socialists to run the Presidency? If Not vote no. 1 Brian lenihan
October 16, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.
Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.
October 12, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Sarah Clancy: Flotillas show that ordinary people must be the antidote to toxic world powers
After arrest, imprisonment, and deportation from Israel, Sarah Clancy, an Irish Gaza flotilla participant, reflects on solidarity, conscience, and the power of ordinary people
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October 11, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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property-injustice.bsky.social
We're hosting our final project event on 29 Sept.

Land, Property and Spatial [In]Justice: Towards a Legal Geography of International Law

W/ project team & stellar guest speakers who influenced us
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September 28, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Our first project PhD has officially graduated! Congratulations @sonyacotton.bsky.social for her research on the meaning of 'community' in international law, and its effects on legal standing + spatial justice in post-apartheid southern Africa! @amandabyer.bsky.social @sineadmercier.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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This is a small but significant win for Ireland. bsky.app/profile/were...
wereontheditch.bsky.social The Ditch @wereontheditch.bsky.social · Sep 1
🚨Breaking🚨

Israeli war bonds won’t be sold in Ireland from tomorrow.

Israel today moved its bond prospectus approval process to Luxembourg.

It has also not included Ireland as one of the member states where it will sell its war bonds.
September 1, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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democracychall.bsky.social
We’re thrilled that the @businesspost.bsky.social has published a major investigation based on findings from our @erc.europa.eu-funded project at @ucddublin.bsky.social. It shines a spotlight on how multinationals shift profits through Ireland. A thread👇

democracychallenged.com/2025/05/06/o...
Our ERC Research Featured in The Business Post
We’re thrilled to share that The Business Post has published a detailed investigative report drawing on findings from our European Research Council-funded project at University College Dublin. The …
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May 6, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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jwmason.bsky.social
Thinking about historical parallels. People talk about coups and autogolpes, the fascist seizure of power in the 1930s, and there are resemblances. But there are other models we could think about.
February 5, 2025 at 4:45 AM
sineadmercier.bsky.social
Some amazing maslaigh here for feminist reclamation. www3.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaeilge/focl...
Is Iomaí Duine ag Dia - lorg
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July 28, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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silverpebble2.bsky.social
The colour pink has been shown to shift our brains away from fight or flight & into rest & digest. Here are some botanical pinks to let your eyes pause on for a while in case your Monday has stress in it:
A collection of pink garden flowers with hand written labels on a white fabric background
July 28, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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alisheridan.bsky.social
“Failure of a State to take appropriate action… including through fossil fuel production, fossil fuel consumption, the granting of fossil fuel exploration licences or the provision of fossil fuel subsidies — may constitute an internationally wrongful act which is attributable to that State.”
July 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Time and politics are cyclical on this island....
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July 11, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Re-learning from Auntie Audre and working to focus my rage with precision.
left side has a pic of audre lorde-black black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet, with hands by her face. right side white text on black background that says, "Women of Color in America have grown up within a symphony of anger at being silenced at being unchosen, at knowing that when we survive, it is in spite of a world that takes for granted our lack of humanness, and which hates our very existence outside of its service. And I say symphony rather than cacophony because we have had to learn to orchestrate those furies so that they do not tear us apart. We have had to learn to move through them and use them for strength and force and insight within our daily lives. Those of us who did not learn this difficult lesson did not survive. And part of my anger is always libation for my fallen sisters." left side: white text on black background, "Every woman has a well-stocked arsenal of anger potentially useful against those oppressions, personal and institutional, which brought that anger into being. Focused with precision it can become a powerful source of energy serving progress and change. And when I speak of change, I do not mean a simple switch of positions or a temporary lessening of tensions, nor the ability to smile or feel good. I am speaking of a basic and radical alteration in those assumptions underlining our lives. " right side, pic of audre lorde-black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet, with hands in her pockets
November 15, 2024 at 4:22 AM
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May 23, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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financialjustice.bsky.social
This day next week!

We'll host a panel discussing the Central Bank's trading of Israel’s 'war bonds'

Featuring: Senator @aliceeire.bsky.social , Helen Mahony @ipsc.bsky.social, Faten Sourani (Trócaire), John Reynolds (Maynooth Law)

📣Spread the word!

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Webinar: Israeli bonds and the Central Bank | Financial Justice Ireland
Join Financial Justice Ireland for this webinar, where we will host a panel discussion on the Central Bank of Ireland’s continued trading of Israel’s government bonds. Israeli ‘war bonds’ …
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May 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
sineadmercier.bsky.social
The most immediate way to revitalise the Irish language and stem the flow of young people from rural Ireland would be to ban Airbnb.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · May 21
The Spanish government ordered Airbnb to remove nearly 66,000 listings from its platform, widening a crackdown on tourist rentals as it seeks to alleviate a housing crisis that has become among the worst in Europe.
Spain Orders Airbnb to Take Down 66,000 Rental Listings
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May 21, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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"The EU supplies at least a third of Israel’s arms imports and has its most comprehensive association agreement with the country. Conditional on respect for international law.

If the political will exists, the EU has the means to act."

- Josep Borrell, past EU Foreign Policy High Representative.
May 8, 2025 at 1:27 PM
sineadmercier.bsky.social
Does the popularity of Scandi girl style & hygge home decor reveal the people's desire for Folkhemmet? When democratic socialism is shut out from our everyday life - the workplace, politics, media - the longing for bread & roses finds expression in sheepskin throws & a classy mule/barrel jean combo.
May 21, 2025 at 9:11 AM