Michelle Farrell
@mnifhearail.bsky.social
International law Prof. Liverpool based. Irish
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Has UEFA lied to the Football Association of Ireland about its anti-racism rules and protocols?
If so, it should be a big problem for UEFA and the Israel Football Association.
But only if the FAI takes this seriously and puts this latest incident in context.
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www.rte.ie/sport/soccer...
If so, it should be a big problem for UEFA and the Israel Football Association.
But only if the FAI takes this seriously and puts this latest incident in context.
A 🧵
www.rte.ie/sport/soccer...
FAI investigating alleged racial abuse of Idah
An alleged racist incident involving Ireland goalscorer Adam Idah during the Israel Nations League game is being assessed by the FAI.
www.rte.ie
September 29, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Has UEFA lied to the Football Association of Ireland about its anti-racism rules and protocols?
If so, it should be a big problem for UEFA and the Israel Football Association.
But only if the FAI takes this seriously and puts this latest incident in context.
A 🧵
www.rte.ie/sport/soccer...
If so, it should be a big problem for UEFA and the Israel Football Association.
But only if the FAI takes this seriously and puts this latest incident in context.
A 🧵
www.rte.ie/sport/soccer...
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Rescue crews in Gaza pull survivors from a collapsed building as cries for help echo beneath the rubble, witnesses say.
Gaza residential building collapses, six families reportedly trapped
Rescue crews in Gaza pull survivors from a collapsed building as cries for help echo beneath the rubble, witnesses say.
www.aljazeera.com
September 16, 2026 at 5:30 AM
Rescue crews in Gaza pull survivors from a collapsed building as cries for help echo beneath the rubble, witnesses say.
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If you’d asked me yesterday how they’d respond, I’d have said: they will swiftly settle on “It is journalism’s sacred duty to hound and destroy minor public figures as a demonstrative lesson to anyone who defies or displeases us: step out of line by a millimetre, and you will be next under the boot”
August 15, 2026 at 3:07 PM
If you’d asked me yesterday how they’d respond, I’d have said: they will swiftly settle on “It is journalism’s sacred duty to hound and destroy minor public figures as a demonstrative lesson to anyone who defies or displeases us: step out of line by a millimetre, and you will be next under the boot”
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The thing to note here is that these people *had an absolute blast* kicking seventeen shades of shit out of this guy, just as they always have a ball kicking fuck out of people they despise. It’s easy to tell when they’re going through the motions, and when they are absolutely loving it.
August 15, 2026 at 3:05 PM
The thing to note here is that these people *had an absolute blast* kicking seventeen shades of shit out of this guy, just as they always have a ball kicking fuck out of people they despise. It’s easy to tell when they’re going through the motions, and when they are absolutely loving it.
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Jason Arday is dead. The UK media won’t learn a thing from this. Because they’re racist bastards. He has two children.
August 14, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Jason Arday is dead. The UK media won’t learn a thing from this. Because they’re racist bastards. He has two children.
But then how would mediocre academics keep talented ECRs, crits, etc in their place? 🧐
Scrapping REF should be “serious’ option”, says Manchester VC.
Duncan Ivison questions “usefulness” of “massive, bureaucratic” research assessment exercise.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Duncan Ivison questions “usefulness” of “massive, bureaucratic” research assessment exercise.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Scrapping REF should be ‘serious’ option, says Manchester VC - Research Professional News
Duncan Ivison questions “usefulness” of “massive, bureaucratic” research assessment exercise
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:30 AM
But then how would mediocre academics keep talented ECRs, crits, etc in their place? 🧐
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According to people in Aida refugee camp this demolition could happen as soon as tomorrow. They wrote today to FIFA and the Swiss government urging them to call on Israel to desist from any demolition plans. The pitch is a lifeline for hundreds of Palestinian boys and girls.
Gianni Infantino: “We will help rebuild all football facilities in Gaza and Palestine. We will bring football back in every corner of the country.”
Israel, meanwhile, is planning to demolish a pitch used by Palestinian children in Bethlehem's Aida refugee camp. www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-...
Israel, meanwhile, is planning to demolish a pitch used by Palestinian children in Bethlehem's Aida refugee camp. www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-...
Israel is threatening to demolish a popular West Bank youth football pitch
Football ground in Bethlehem's Aida refugee camp is built on land owned by the Armenian church in the shadow of the separation wall
www.middleeasteye.net
January 6, 2026 at 6:29 PM
According to people in Aida refugee camp this demolition could happen as soon as tomorrow. They wrote today to FIFA and the Swiss government urging them to call on Israel to desist from any demolition plans. The pitch is a lifeline for hundreds of Palestinian boys and girls.
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"Let me be absolutely a framework position of clear international transition before the law weekend and remain the substance of absolutely clear".
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Misan Harriman on Instagram: "The PM speaks…"
2,158 likes, 846 comments - misanharriman on January 5, 2026: "The PM speaks…".
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January 6, 2026 at 9:49 AM
"Let me be absolutely a framework position of clear international transition before the law weekend and remain the substance of absolutely clear".
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I missed this; maybe others have too. El Shewy, Griffiths & Jones, 'Israel's War on Gaza in a Global Frame' @ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....:
"the war on Gaza—and Israel's entire colonial project in Palestine—is not only produced through geopolitical relations but generative of them." 👌
"the war on Gaza—and Israel's entire colonial project in Palestine—is not only produced through geopolitical relations but generative of them." 👌
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I missed this; maybe others have too. El Shewy, Griffiths & Jones, 'Israel's War on Gaza in a Global Frame' @ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....:
"the war on Gaza—and Israel's entire colonial project in Palestine—is not only produced through geopolitical relations but generative of them." 👌
"the war on Gaza—and Israel's entire colonial project in Palestine—is not only produced through geopolitical relations but generative of them." 👌
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In advance of tomorrow's match between Italy and Israel, here again is my and @antoineduval.bsky.social piece in @josimarfootball.bsky.social on the serious governance failures that mean Israel is still allowed to compete. And no, the peace-plan changes nothing josimarfootball.com/2025/10/06/m...
More political theatre while Gaza burns - josimarfootball.com
Uefa and Fifa’s failure to sanction the Israel Football Association is a moral and political failure.
josimarfootball.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:21 AM
In advance of tomorrow's match between Italy and Israel, here again is my and @antoineduval.bsky.social piece in @josimarfootball.bsky.social on the serious governance failures that mean Israel is still allowed to compete. And no, the peace-plan changes nothing josimarfootball.com/2025/10/06/m...
i was in a coffee shop one ordinary day in Liverpool when Manchán Magan wandered in. He came over to me as though he knew me. We had a lovely chat. A striking moment. I went to his show that night. He had a soft kind sagesse abt him. I'm sad. May be rest in peace
www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...
Manchán Magan: Writer and documentary maker dies aged 55
Author spoke of terminal illness in recent radio interview, saying he did not feel despair
www.irishtimes.com
October 3, 2025 at 9:04 AM
i was in a coffee shop one ordinary day in Liverpool when Manchán Magan wandered in. He came over to me as though he knew me. We had a lovely chat. A striking moment. I went to his show that night. He had a soft kind sagesse abt him. I'm sad. May be rest in peace
www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...
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The moral case for the Israel Football Association's suspension from football is horrifically self-evident, but important to stress there are very clear grounds for their exclusion in the UEFA and FIFA statutes. Joint letter to UEFA from Bohemians, Irish Sport for Palestine and FairSquare 👇
September 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The moral case for the Israel Football Association's suspension from football is horrifically self-evident, but important to stress there are very clear grounds for their exclusion in the UEFA and FIFA statutes. Joint letter to UEFA from Bohemians, Irish Sport for Palestine and FairSquare 👇
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Spoke on RTÉ radio ‘News at one’ today on the UN Commission of Inquiry report on genocide in Gaza.
@rteradio1.bsky.social @uniofgalway.bsky.social
You can listen back here:
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You can listen back here:
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Israel continues to commit genocide in Gaza - UN commission
Professor Shane Darcy, of the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the University of Galway, on the report from a United Nations Commission of Inquiry which finds that Israel has committed genocide in Gaz...
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September 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Spoke on RTÉ radio ‘News at one’ today on the UN Commission of Inquiry report on genocide in Gaza.
@rteradio1.bsky.social @uniofgalway.bsky.social
You can listen back here:
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
@rteradio1.bsky.social @uniofgalway.bsky.social
You can listen back here:
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
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Kneecap is not the story.
Genocide in Gaza is.
Genocide in Gaza is.
June 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Kneecap is not the story.
Genocide in Gaza is.
Genocide in Gaza is.
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Webinar on corporate accountability taking place tomorrow at 17:00 Irish time.
Hear from those at the frontlines of accountability efforts for international crimes perpetrated in Gaza. And me.
Still time to register 👇👇👇
Hear from those at the frontlines of accountability efforts for international crimes perpetrated in Gaza. And me.
Still time to register 👇👇👇
Looking forward to participating in this week's webinar with colleagues from @icjpalestine.com @hindrajabfoundation.be, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights and Law for Palestine.
Registration is open here: t.co/Z5z8bYShH6
Registration is open here: t.co/Z5z8bYShH6
September 10, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Webinar on corporate accountability taking place tomorrow at 17:00 Irish time.
Hear from those at the frontlines of accountability efforts for international crimes perpetrated in Gaza. And me.
Still time to register 👇👇👇
Hear from those at the frontlines of accountability efforts for international crimes perpetrated in Gaza. And me.
Still time to register 👇👇👇
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Germany and Italy need more time to consider whether Israel should be denied *partial access* to the Horizon Europe research fund.
More time in the face of daily Palestinian deaths from bullets and starvation.
More time to mildly sanction a State accused of genocide by Israeli NGOs this week.
More time in the face of daily Palestinian deaths from bullets and starvation.
More time to mildly sanction a State accused of genocide by Israeli NGOs this week.
July 30, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Germany and Italy need more time to consider whether Israel should be denied *partial access* to the Horizon Europe research fund.
More time in the face of daily Palestinian deaths from bullets and starvation.
More time to mildly sanction a State accused of genocide by Israeli NGOs this week.
More time in the face of daily Palestinian deaths from bullets and starvation.
More time to mildly sanction a State accused of genocide by Israeli NGOs this week.
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I think the fundamental error in this piece is imagining that there is some inherent tension between Starmer the human rights lawyer, and Starmer the ruthless bourgeois state manager.
And like, I don't think that's what's going on?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
And like, I don't think that's what's going on?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Starmer v Starmer: why is the former human rights lawyer so cautious about defending human rights?
The long read: Many of his supporters hoped the prime minister would restore the UK’s commitment to international law. Yet Labour’s record over the past year has been curiously mixed
www.theguardian.com
July 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I think the fundamental error in this piece is imagining that there is some inherent tension between Starmer the human rights lawyer, and Starmer the ruthless bourgeois state manager.
And like, I don't think that's what's going on?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
And like, I don't think that's what's going on?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Migrants are subject to hypervisibility & invisibility - this manifests in a specific way in UK law & policy, which is most obvious from the Rwanda plan. This however connects to a longer history of deterrence & characterisation of asylum seekers as 'destitute'
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May 9, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Migrants are subject to hypervisibility & invisibility - this manifests in a specific way in UK law & policy, which is most obvious from the Rwanda plan. This however connects to a longer history of deterrence & characterisation of asylum seekers as 'destitute'
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Media network urges action to end forced starvation that threatens Gaza’s entire population, including journalists.
Al Jazeera calls for global action to protect Gaza’s journalists
Media network urges action to end forced starvation that threatens Gaza’s entire population, including journalists.
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July 23, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Media network urges action to end forced starvation that threatens Gaza’s entire population, including journalists.
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The World Health Organisation can be added to the list of international and local organisations - already including UN, International Committee of the Red Cross, Médecins Sans Frontières, Red Crescent, World Central Kitchen - attacked by Israeli forces in Gaza
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
WHO says residence and main warehouse in Gaza hit by Israeli forces
Staff quarters attacked three times and four people detained, three temporarily, as IDF tanks enter Deir al-Balah
www.theguardian.com
July 22, 2025 at 10:18 AM
The World Health Organisation can be added to the list of international and local organisations - already including UN, International Committee of the Red Cross, Médecins Sans Frontières, Red Crescent, World Central Kitchen - attacked by Israeli forces in Gaza
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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27 people — including a priest, professor and health workers — were arrested today under terrorism laws.
Their crime? Peacefully holding signs opposing genocide.
This is how we sleepwalk into fascism.
Their crime? Peacefully holding signs opposing genocide.
This is how we sleepwalk into fascism.
July 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
27 people — including a priest, professor and health workers — were arrested today under terrorism laws.
Their crime? Peacefully holding signs opposing genocide.
This is how we sleepwalk into fascism.
Their crime? Peacefully holding signs opposing genocide.
This is how we sleepwalk into fascism.
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We have had a report saying two women walking up to a protest today at BAe Samlesbury were stopped by Lancashire Police and advised to remove their t-shirts that say 'Free Palestine', as it may "breach the proscription order".
And so it begins.
And so it begins.
July 5, 2025 at 1:05 PM
We have had a report saying two women walking up to a protest today at BAe Samlesbury were stopped by Lancashire Police and advised to remove their t-shirts that say 'Free Palestine', as it may "breach the proscription order".
And so it begins.
And so it begins.
this was very clearly a likely consequence of proscribing a pro Palestine group.
Ignorance, opportunism and govt goals all working together here to chill speech and end freedoms.
Free Palestine
Ignorance, opportunism and govt goals all working together here to chill speech and end freedoms.
Free Palestine
We have had a report saying two women walking up to a protest today at BAe Samlesbury were stopped by Lancashire Police and advised to remove their t-shirts that say 'Free Palestine', as it may "breach the proscription order".
And so it begins.
And so it begins.
July 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
this was very clearly a likely consequence of proscribing a pro Palestine group.
Ignorance, opportunism and govt goals all working together here to chill speech and end freedoms.
Free Palestine
Ignorance, opportunism and govt goals all working together here to chill speech and end freedoms.
Free Palestine
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Just received news that 27 people have been arrested in Parliament Square under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action".
This is real police state behaviour.
This is real police state behaviour.
July 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Just received news that 27 people have been arrested in Parliament Square under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action".
This is real police state behaviour.
This is real police state behaviour.