Inefficient academic lawyer @tcddublin.bsky.social Trying to write about Free Speech. Also GDPR, IP, IT, Privacy, Private Law. Thinking about Bach, books, chess, coffee, movies, music, screenplays, sport, theatre, whiskey http://www.cearta.ie
Currently on @rte.ie Lyric FM. Fantastic episode
Culture FileDo Bugs Need a Glow-Up? | The Culture File Debate Luke Clancy and panel make the case for loving some teeming critters of the invertebrate kingdom. Advocating for their favourites are: Rachel McKenna (shieldbugs); Liam Lysaght (wasps); Cassia Gaden Gilmartin (earwigs); and Nessa Darcy (woodlice)....
1/2 Thanks to all who have reached out to me about my blogpost on the chilling effect of the Irish censorship regime. It has been revised and expanded (and, I hope, improved), as a consequence. www.cearta.ie/2026/06/inde...
Indecency, obscenity, immorality, vice, depravity, corruption: the chilling effect of the Censorship of Publications Acts – Part 2 (censor and chill) – Cearta.iethe Irish for rightswww.cearta.ie#mustread “Am I Allowed to Rant? The Sour Aftertaste of Miladze v Georgia” [re Art10 ECHR] By Babette De Naeyer on Strasbourg Observers strasbourgobservers.com/2026/06/30/a...
‘Am I Allowed to Rant?’: The Sour Aftertaste of Miladze v. Georgia - Strasbourg ObserversBy Babette De Naeyer Imagine this: it’s December and you live in Georgia – obviously, it’s dreadful outside. You work as one of the many cogs in the platform economy: driving around on your scooter in...strasbourgobservers.comDuring its last Council presidency in 2013, Ireland made diplomats sleep in tents to maximize time spent negotiating the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation #GDPR www.politico.eu/article/irel...
Ireland’s Big Tech presidency dilemma: Shaping the rules for companies it hostsTech regulation will form a large part of Dublin’s presidency of the Council of the EU, which starts July 1.www.politico.eu1/2 Call for help. On the chilling effect of the Irish censorship regime, in this post, I write about Irish writers who were not published in the first place, who edited texts to accommodate tremulous publishers, who could not write … www.cearta.ie/2026/06/inde...
Indecency, obscenity, immorality, vice, depravity, corruption: the chilling effect of the Censorship of Publications Acts – Part 2 (censor and chill) – Cearta.iethe Irish for rightswww.cearta.ieOn #Bloomsday, putting the almost-but-not-quite ban on #Ulysses into the context of Ireland's censorship Acts: cearta.ie/2026/06/inde...
Indecency, obscenity, immorality, vice, depravity, corruption: the chilling effect of the Censorship of Publications Acts – Part 2 (censor and chill) – Cearta.iethe Irish for rightscearta.ieIndecency, obscenity, immorality, vice, depravity, corruption: the chilling effect of the Censorship of Publications Acts – Part 2 (censor and chill) www.cearta.ie/2026/06/inde... the eighth instalment of my ongoing series
Indecency, obscenity, immorality, vice, depravity, corruption: the chilling effect of the Censorship of Publications Acts – Part 2 (censor and chill) – Cearta.iethe Irish for rightswww.cearta.ieIrish Family Planning Association v Ryan [1979] IR 295 (27 July 1978) and the Censorship of Publications Acts – the judgments (HC: Hamilton J; SC: O'Higgins CJ & Kenny J) cearta.ie/2026/05/iris... My new blogpost in my expanding series on the Irish Censorship of Publications Acts
Irish Family Planning Association v Ryan and the Censorship of Publications Acts – the judgments – Cearta.ieWhen examining a book under this section, the Censorship Board may communicate with the author, editor or publisher of the book and may take into account any representation made by him in relation thereto.cearta.ieIrish Family Planning Association v Ryan and the Censorship of Publications Acts – the judgments cearta.ie/2026/05/iris... My new blogpost in my expanding series on the Irish Censorship of Publications Act
Irish Family Planning Association v Ryan and the Censorship of Publications Acts – the judgments – Cearta.ieWhen examining a book under this section, the Censorship Board may communicate with the author, editor or publisher of the book and may take into account any representation made by him in relation thereto.cearta.ieIrish Family Planning Association v Ryan and the Censorship of Publications Acts – some background www.cearta.ie/2026/05/iris... The third post in my series on the Censorship of Publications Acts
Irish Family Planning Association v Ryan and the Censorship of Publications Acts – some background – Cearta.ie… have advocated the unnatural prevention of conception or the procurement of abortion or miscarriage or the use of any method, treatment or appliance for the purpose of such prevention or procurement, …www.cearta.ieKerryman Sean Binder, who was facing 20 years in prison, for helping refugees in Greece, is ‘relieved’ that all charges against him have been dropped. The Kerry barrister and 23 others were to face trial today, but the court acquitted the volunteers of the charges m.independent.ie/regionals/ke...
Kerry man acquitted of all charges for his humanitarian work in Greece is ‘relieved’ his ordeal is overKerry man Sean Binder, who was facing 20 years in prison, for helping refugees in Greece, has said that he is ‘relieved’ that all charges against him have been dropped.m.independent.ieThread!
Daphne KellerI'm pretty sure the CJEU in Russmedia just casually dismantled 80% of the DSA with one ill-considered judgment. As I read it, it substitutes in GDPR rules -- not notice and takedown rules -- for any platform where a user is likely to post content about people. 1/ curia.europa.eu/juris/docume...
