I am proud to call myself an Irish feminist, and I am proud that Ireland has a system of gender recognition by self identification. So to those seeking to appropriate Irish history and language to create an exclusionary, transphobic feminism, I say: not in my name.

No one fully survived: Preliminary statistics documented by @EuroMedHR on the genocide committed by Israel in the Gaza Strip reveal staggering figures, evidence of a catastrophe that has spared no one

I am so sorry to be missing the first in-person @IntHateStudies conference post-Covid taking place in Cape Town. If you are there and on Blu3S*y also, let me know via the hashtag #INHS2024

@law_IALT Spring Discourse on Hate Speech and Crime to be hosted by @UlsterUniSchLaw with @jschweppe and rep from @NIHRC . 19th April. Details here: https://t.co/JfRUmcOhbo

Really honoured to be appointed a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences ⁦@AcadSocSciences⁩ Looking forward to working more closely with them to promote the important work of social scientists researching the causes/impacts of prejudice & hatred

BREAKING: UN relief workers visiting Gaza hospitals describe ‘unbearable’ scenes

‘This is the first time the state-funded Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) has invoked its powers, granted by statute, to initiate a legal action concerning the human rights of a person or class of people.’

I have loved every second of being Co-Director of the INHS but all good things come to an end. I know that it will go from strength to strength under the leadership of @KathrynBenier and Dr Katie McBride, and look forward to meeting friends new and old in Cape Town in 2024!

Gaza is by far the most dangerous place in the world to be a child. @UNICEF warns that without an urgent humanitarian ceasefire, more children will likely die from disease than from bombings and other hostilities.

Justine McCarthy: Nothing can justify this massacre of the innocents. No politics. No history. No revenge. #GazaGenocide #CeasefireNowInGaza

In less than a week, we've seen the continuous attack on trans healthcare and especially trans young people. RTE PrimeTime platformed more fear mongering and myths around trans healthcare and in the UK, new guidelines on trans students were just published by the Dept of Education

259 IP applicants left with nowhere to sleep Meanwhile - Hotel with 70 beds burned down #Rossacahill - Locals are blocking use of 155 beds #Dromahair - 56 beds can't be used in #Fermoy for same reason Total: 281 Irish communities can be better than this. #RefugeesWelcome

"I'm furious. Furious that those with power shrug at the humanitarian nightmares unleashed on 1 mil. children. Furious that disease is as well-armed as the warring parties, but it gets no attention.” - @1james_elder for @UNICEF, with @DrMargaretH for @WHO, briefing on #Gaza

“When White Flags Turn Red in Gaza”: @hrw’s @fredabrahams, who authored our 2009 report on Israel’s killings of unarmed Palestinians waving white flags, reflects on how endemic impunity fuels unlawful conduct. “Had clear lines been drawn, the hostages might have made it home.”

@AHaynesTweets @ULSociology @SharedIreland @IrishResearch @DrKevinJBrown @qubschooloflaw @IslandShared And that’s a wrap - and thank you to Professor @aoifemod for her generous and wise opening comments in opening the event.

@AHaynesTweets @ULSociology @SharedIreland @IrishResearch @DrKevinJBrown @qubschooloflaw @IslandShared “We are on a common journey, and we have a lot to learn from each other”, concludes @AHaynesTweets when presenting the recommendations of the Report. For more context, findings and recommendations, the Report is freely available on the UL repository here:

@AHaynesTweets @ULSociology @SharedIreland @IrishResearch @DrKevinJBrown @qubschooloflaw @IslandShared Presenting some of what I think is some of the most important findings of the research, Professor @AHaynesTweets presents data on the stigma for a conviction of a hate involved crime with respect to social distance and employability

@AHaynesTweets @ULSociology @SharedIreland @IrishResearch @DrKevinJBrown @qubschooloflaw Again, the report is available here: https://t.co/bUyrELJqq1 #LoveIrishResearch @IslandShared

@AHaynesTweets @ULSociology @SharedIreland @IrishResearch @DrKevinJBrown @qubschooloflaw Both in the Republic of Ireland and Ireland, there is a lack of clarity as to current criminal justice responses to hate crime, as described by @DrKevinJBrown @qubschooloflaw

@AHaynesTweets @ULSociology @SharedIreland @IrishResearch @DrKevinJBrown @qubschooloflaw The public do not perceive either the courts or the police to be particularly effective at responding to hate crime, notes @DrKevinJBrown

@AHaynesTweets @ULSociology @SharedIreland @IrishResearch Dr @DrKevinJBrown from @qubschooloflaw describes how the public understand the communicative function of hate crime legislation.