Shane Darcy
@shanedarcy.bsky.social
Professor, Irish Centre for Human Rights, School of Law, University of Galway. International law, armed conflict, accountability, business and human rights.
Prof. Ray Murphy on the attack on the International Criminal Court to the benefit of international criminals.
Opinion: Why is the US engaged in a ‘forever war’ with the International Criminal Court?
The ICC is one of the few remaining institutions that can hold individuals to account for so called atrocity crimes
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A Government investigation into Aughinish Alumina was unable to get hold of "confidential" documents from Sweden relating to the plant's alleged ownership by sanctioned oligarch Oleg Deripaska It turns out the documents are available publicly for a €25 admin fee www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
Aughinish investigators did not obtain Swedish document available for €25 fee
Authorities said they were unable to obtain specific information – but judgment is publicly accessible
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If Trump made a speech where he rejected the legitimacy of judicial action restraining the State we’d all know what we were hearing. Just because the ideas are delivered by a character consistently speaking in a tone of watered down milk doesn’t change what it means.
Joe Noonan@joenoonan.bsky.social · 2w agoMinister attacks Court oversight under the Constitution. Dangerous.
"Ireland to move ahead with partial ban on trade with unlawful Israeli settlements, thus failing to live up to its international law obligations and findings of the International Court of Justice". Might be a better headline.
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · last mo.Attempt to add services ban to Occupied Territories Bill fails at committee stage
New report of the UN Commission of Inquiry: “The essence of childhood has been destroyed”: Israel’s deliberate targeting of Palestinian children t.co/wALpHwuT0x
Collective punishment is comprehensively prohibited under international humanitarian law. Ben-Gvir's words should be used by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in a war crimes and crimes against humanity prosecution against him. (Were Lebanon to ratify the Rome Statute)
Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول@faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 2mo agoIsraeli National Security Minister Ben-Gvir: For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep. All of Lebanon must burn!
Two men convicted for human trafficking for the purpose of labour exploitation - first conviction of its kind in Ireland. www.rte.ie/news/courts/...
Two men jailed for 24 years for human trafficking
Two men from Eastern Europe have been jailed 13 and 11 years for human trafficking for the purpose of labour exploitation - the first conviction of its type in the State.
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Happy #Bloomsday! Our latest blog discusses Pomes Penyeach, an extremely rare collection of James Joyce's poetry with illuminations by his daughter, Lucia. Read more about our copy of Pomes Penyeach here: nuigarchives.blogspot.com?m=0
New Sky News report on the Minab bombing: "The names and identities of everyone based in the school who were killed in the airstrike are all identified. This includes 120 students (73 boys and 47 girls, aged from six to thirteen) and 26 teachers." www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPtI...
Sky News confirms the identities of 152 victims of the Iran school strike
YouTube video by Sky News
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3 day preliminary hearing in ICCL class action v Microsoft tomorrow. In Ireland’s first ever class action, this hearing asks: who bears the burden of proof when big tech uses your data in bizarre & hidden ways? Is it you or they who is required to be transparent about it? enforce.ie/digital-data...
Preliminary hearing on burden of proof - Enforce
Class action will target “Real-Time Bidding” (RTB) data breach in Microsoft’s advertising system, and is anticipated to affect Microsoft’s operations across the EU
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"AI systems embedded into military kill chains are accelerating the speed and scale of military assaults in a manner that ... risks facilitating violations of international criminal, human rights, and humanitarian law." Joint statement on AI in warfare. www.accessnow.org/press-releas...
Access Now - Joint statement on AI in warfare
We, the undersigned organizations and individuals, are deeply alarmed by the rapid militarization of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. AI systems embedded into military kill chains are accele...
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‘Before being forced to flee their homes, the Romanians, some 20 families in all, had lived in the affluent (and reasonably mixed) Lisburn Road area of south Belfast.’ I wrote this in *2009* in the Irish times N I has had a racism problem for a long time www.petergeoghegan.com/2009/08/06/r...
Racist attacks on Roma are latest low in North’s intolerant history – Peter Geoghegan
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So glad that Luqman Saeed - an academic at Ulster University - has written this piece about the Belfast riots. I hope I could write this clearly and perceptively were I under similar pressure right now. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
Daniel Trilling@trillingual.bsky.social · 2mo agoFrom a friend in Belfast.
Elon Musk, spreading messages of ‘disgust, fear and anger’ on his anti-social media on Tuesday as racists planned violence in Belfast.
We can't look away from the images of families fleeing burning houses without calling this out as a pogrom, whipped up by influential actors who care nothing for the people of Belfast: www.irishnews.com/news/norther...
See also: www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Ireland is Israel's second biggest trading partner — we need to look at why
Despite strong public support for sanctions, Ireland’s trade with Israel is booming — and multinationals are driving the growth
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Phillips OBrien@phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 2mo agoI'm not sure the Irish understand the damage the recent story of their pumping economic support into Putin's war machine is doing to their reputation in Central/East Europe. The idea of Ireland standing on the side of the oppressed against imperialists is gone, probably forever.
Very proud to be on the advisory board for this campaign. If of interest, please sign and share. ——— Infantino isn’t fit to lead FIFA. And FIFA isn’t fit to govern football. Agree? Add your name to this mass complaint: rebootfifa.com/sign?utm_sou...
Infantino isn’t fit to lead FIFA. And FIFA isn’t fit to govern football. Agree? Add your name now >>
Add your name to our mass complaint
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We look forward to welcoming back to @uniofgalway.bsky.social the founder of the Summer School on the International Criminal Court, Prof William Schabas, to deliver this timely lecture: 'International law in the age of Trump' @uniofgalwaylaw.bsky.social | @uniofgalwayichr.bsky.social
Summer School on the International Criminal Court@iccsummerschool.bsky.social · 3mo ago'International law in the age of Trump' The keynote address at this year's Summer School will be delivered by Professor William Schabas, professor of international law at Middlesex University. This is a public event @uniofgalway.bsky.social and no registration is necessary. 9 June 2026 at 4pm.
Colombian mercenaries accused of committing war crimes in Sudan were trained in military bases in the United Arab Emirates, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch. We speak with Joey Shea, author of the report.
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Palestinian human rights defender Shawan Jabarin welcomed to Galway law school
The Irish Centre for Human Rights, School of Law, University of Galway, was honoured to welcome Palestinian human rights defender Shawan Jabarin for a public lecture entitled “US Sanctions again...
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Visiting The Hague with 40 students from the Irish Centre for Human Rights @uniofgalway.bsky.social Today we visit the international Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court - tomorrow the Kosovo Specialist Chambers.
President Catherine Connolly visited the Irish Centre for Human Rights at University of Galway this week to meet with Shawan Jabarin, Director General of Al-Haq. Al-Haq is the oldest human rights organisation in the Middle East and is now under sanction by the US administration.
Shane Darcy@shanedarcy.bsky.social · 2mo agoToday at University of Galway: Remarkable human rights defender Shawan Jabarin will give a first-hand account of the deteriorating human rights situation in the West Bank and speak on the impact of United States sanctions against Al-Haq and the International Criminal Court. 5pm, A.M. Building
President Catherine Connolly visited the Irish Centre for Human Rights at University of Galway this week to meet with Shawan Jabarin, Director General of Al-Haq. Al-Haq is the oldest human rights organisation in the Middle East and is now under sanction by the US administration.
Shane Darcy@shanedarcy.bsky.social · 2mo agoToday at University of Galway: Remarkable human rights defender Shawan Jabarin will give a first-hand account of the deteriorating human rights situation in the West Bank and speak on the impact of United States sanctions against Al-Haq and the International Criminal Court. 5pm, A.M. Building
