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Neil Robinson

@n-robinson.bsky.social
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“Ireland’s Most Unflappable Man of 2025”, Sunday Independent. Prof of comparative politics, University of Limerick, Ireland, interested in Russian and post-Soviet politics, hoping for an end to Putin and Putinism.

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Politics and Public Administration, University of Limerick @politics-ul.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Maura Adshead launched her new book, Doing Community research, with @thewheelireland.bsky.social. The book is a practical guide on how to bridge the gap between universities and communities, offering a clear path toward meaningful, collaborative research. www.borupress.ie/bookshop/doi...
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Neil Robinson @n-robinson.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
You'd have to be an idiot to fail just like the old scientific communism tests
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Neil Robinson @n-robinson.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Deans and assistant deans wouldn't fit in the picture
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Neil Robinson @n-robinson.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
The next time @news.rte.ie @rteradio1.bsky.social @drivetime.bsky.social have Geoff Roberts on to spout the latest Kremlin line about Ukraine could they ask him who paid for his trip to the illegally annexed Crimea to attend a 'Congress to mark the 80th anniversary of the 1945 Yalta Conference'? 1/
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Neil Robinson @n-robinson.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Comedy gold from Medvedev, the samogon must have been extra strong
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Neil Robinson @n-robinson.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Good job @bdtaylor-su.bsky.social, very well presented digest of Russian politics
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Politics and Public Administration, University of Limerick @politics-ul.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Andrew Shorten’s new paper on Alienation, equality, and multifaith establishmentAmerican Journal of Political Science - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @andrewshorten.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social
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American Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online Library
Religious establishment today often takes a multifaith form, whereby multiple religions are supported in different ways and to different degrees. In order to contribute to the development of a normat....
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LSE Review of Books @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
How can liberal #democracies respond to the rise of right-wing #populism? Politicizing Political Liberalism: On the Containment of Illiberal and Antidemocratic Views by Gabriele Badano & @alasianuti.bsky.social (Oxford Academic) reviewed by @andrewshorten.bsky.social @politics-ul.bsky.social 👇
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How liberal democracies can respond to the rise of right-wing populism
How should liberal democracies respond to the rise of right-wing populism? In this timely book, Politicizing Political Liberalism, Gabriele Badano and Alasia Nuti draw on and extend the influential…
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Neil Robinson @n-robinson.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
It was a bomb in our house
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Neil Robinson @n-robinson.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Richard Hofstadter is supposed to have once said ‘Other countries have ideologies, America is an ideology’. Perhaps a mobilised one after today.
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Neil Robinson @n-robinson.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I like to imagine that as Trump finished Xi picked up a phone, said ‘Release the next virus’ and then laughed maniacally.
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Politics and Public Administration, University of Limerick @politics-ul.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
The gender divide in young Irish people’s political attitudes #Irishpolitics
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The gender divide in young people’s political opinions in Ireland
Dr. Rory Costello is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics & Public Administration at the University of Limerick. He is Director of WhichCandidate.ie and is a member of the …
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Neil Robinson @n-robinson.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Never, ever buy a VanMoof bike. Overpriced, badly made, poor service provision (not the local service providers, the main company’s decisions cripple them).
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Neil Robinson @n-robinson.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
At least these was some hope when the Greens backed up FF/FG. FF/FG backed up by gobshites (damn spell check, that should have read independents) less so. #GE24
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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Academic colleagues, please consider signing this. The growing repression of academic freedom is part of the wider authoritarian moves by the election-stealing, Putin-backed government of Georgia. Our Georgian colleagues and their students need our solidarity. ruta-association.org/news/open-le...
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Open Letter in Solidarity with Georgian Academics and Students - Ruta
We, the undersigned academics, stand in solidarity with the professors, researchers, and students of Georgia in their ongoing fight for democracy, justice,
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Politics and Public Administration, University of Limerick @politics-ul.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
What might happen in #GE24 in Limerick. @unioflimerick.bsky.social
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'The Goldilocks principle is key', says Limerick political expert
Lecturer predicts who’ll get it ‘just right’
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Politics and Public Administration, University of Limerick @politics-ul.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Still time to find out who to vote for or to change your mind
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Neil Robinson @n-robinson.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I’d forgotten about this lackwit but of course he’s back. A good day for the terrorists.
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Trump’s Gorka pick met with outrage: he’s ‘as dangerous as he is unqualified’
Even among a host of TV personalities and alleged sex traffickers, far-right commentator is a step too far for some
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University of Limerick @unioflimerick.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
New UL research finds that many voters who used the app WhichCandidate – founded by Dr Rory Costello, lecturer in UL’s Department of Politics & Public Administration – switched their initial voting preference in favour of a different candidate ul.ie/news/whichca... #GE24 #Election24 #SpeirGorm
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WhichCandidate: New UL research shows voters switched preferences after using election website
New University of Limerick research has found that many voters who used a website designed to support them in making more informed decisions at the polls switched their initial voting preference in fa...
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Neil Robinson @n-robinson.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
More personnel problems for Moscow Russia recruits Yemeni mercenaries to fight in Ukraine
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Russia recruits Yemeni mercenaries to fight in Ukraine
Mysterious Houthi-linked company duping men into joining Moscow’s war machine
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Ian Richardson @breakaway-ian.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The 2024 Irish general election is only days away. But how did your area vote in 2020? And how does that look with the new constituency boundaries? Find out more here ianrichardson.shinyapps.io/GE2020_Resul... with this interactive map of 1st preference votes.
Map of dun Laoghaire broken down to electoral district level with areas colored based on the strength of Fine Gael 1st preference votes in that area
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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
The US has a much higher stake in Russia's war on Ukraine than most people think. As Americans consider the costs of continuing to help Ukraine fight the Russians in the coming years, they deserve a careful consideration of the costs of allowing Russia to win. DEC 2023 report: isw.pub/Ukraine121423
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Neil Robinson @n-robinson.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
They have to be short of men if they are forgiving R100 mill debts, giving large leave allowances etc. www.kommersant.ru/doc/7326190
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Путин подписал закон о списании долгов по просроченным кредитам участников СВО
Подробнее на сайте
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Politics and Public Administration, University of Limerick @politics-ul.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Coverage for Rory Costello’s Which Candidate voter app www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...
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Election 2024: Can't decide who to vote for? This online tool can help
Election 2024: Can't decide who to vote for? This online tool can help : A comprehensive series of articles on this topic
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Neil Robinson @n-robinson.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I found myself re-reading Richard Hofstader this morning and - sadly and once again - something written before I was born seems to sum up contemporary politics in the USA and Russia (probably also Hungary and Turkey and India and ... add your own cases) best.
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Neil Robinson @n-robinson.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
A good translation of Putin's speech
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Neil Robinson @n-robinson.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I don’t think that I have ever felt as detached from an election as I do from #GE24. All my emotion was used up by the UK and US elections plus it looks like we’ll get more of the same - moderate incompetence and short-termism from Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael.
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Neil Robinson @n-robinson.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I was lucky to be in Vienna last week and caught this exhibition of incredible charcoal on paper works by @robertlongo.bsky.social
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Neil Robinson @n-robinson.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Ukraine, not ‘the’ Ukraine, free to read for a month. A history of the #Ukraine
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Ukraine not ‘the’ Ukraine
Cambridge Core - European Studies - Ukraine not ‘the’ Ukraine
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Olga Onuch @oonuch.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
1000 days of Russia’s War 1000 days of Russian war crimes 1000 days of Ukrainian survival, resistance, & now resilience 1000 days of a 3 day war because Ukraine fights back …Because «ми тут» (we’re here), «ми є» (we exist) & «все буде Україна» (Ukraine will live on forever) C/o Zelensky’s telegram
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Neil Robinson @n-robinson.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Those who forget the past as doomed to repeat it
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Moscow’s Gulag museum closed as Russia silences criticism of Soviet crimes
Russians encouraged to inform on each other as Putin regime fuels fear and paranoia
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Politics and Public Administration, University of Limerick @politics-ul.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Rory Costello's which candidate voter app is now up and running for #GE24 www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
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How do your views match with election candidates in your area? Use this tool to find out
WhichCandidate voting aid tool allows voters to find out who they agree with on a range of policies
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