Paul O'Mahoney
@paulomahoney.bsky.social
Health research support @ University of Limerick, background & most work in philosophy, literature & classics, some moonlighting in pol, law and econ.
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It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
December 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
Reposted by Paul O'Mahoney
Foliseachán nua - New publication 2
The Triads of Ireland: An Old Irish Wisdom Text
Edited by Fergus Kelly
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The Triads of Ireland: An Old Irish Wisdom Text
Edited by Fergus Kelly
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@dias.ie
#DIASdiscovers
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Foliseachán nua - New publication 2
The Triads of Ireland: An Old Irish Wisdom Text
Edited by Fergus Kelly
shop.dias.ie/product/the-...
@dias.ie
#DIASdiscovers
The Triads of Ireland: An Old Irish Wisdom Text
Edited by Fergus Kelly
shop.dias.ie/product/the-...
@dias.ie
#DIASdiscovers
The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing laid this out in a letter to the Lancet a few years ago. Ultimately suspended anonymous access to its public data, requiring accessors to register name, affiliation & purpose of access, to frustrate paper mills & HARKing:
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
October 14, 2025 at 8:19 AM
The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing laid this out in a letter to the Lancet a few years ago. Ultimately suspended anonymous access to its public data, requiring accessors to register name, affiliation & purpose of access, to frustrate paper mills & HARKing:
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
I've followed may others in deleting my academia[dot]edu profile this week - every paper individually, then the acct, having changed username & deleted affiliation, etc. The absurd new TOS seem the natural culmination of the site's steady enshittification.
September 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I've followed may others in deleting my academia[dot]edu profile this week - every paper individually, then the acct, having changed username & deleted affiliation, etc. The absurd new TOS seem the natural culmination of the site's steady enshittification.
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News from Finland. A 9-year-old lost an especially good stick he’d had since he was 2. He hung up 20 posters. A few days later it was returned. It had been found by a 2-year-old, who wanted to keep it for herself, but her mother made her return it. She got toys, flowers and candy as a reward.
September 13, 2025 at 7:40 AM
News from Finland. A 9-year-old lost an especially good stick he’d had since he was 2. He hung up 20 posters. A few days later it was returned. It had been found by a 2-year-old, who wanted to keep it for herself, but her mother made her return it. She got toys, flowers and candy as a reward.
Interesting document: Breith Báis ar Eagnuidhe: trí cómhráidthe d’ár cheap Platón: Apologia, Critón, Phaedón (1929) by Seoirse Mac Laghmhainn.
Plato’s Apology, Crito and Phaedo rendered in Irish under a title translating as ‘Judgement of Death on a Sage’.
Plato’s Apology, Crito and Phaedo rendered in Irish under a title translating as ‘Judgement of Death on a Sage’.
May 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Interesting document: Breith Báis ar Eagnuidhe: trí cómhráidthe d’ár cheap Platón: Apologia, Critón, Phaedón (1929) by Seoirse Mac Laghmhainn.
Plato’s Apology, Crito and Phaedo rendered in Irish under a title translating as ‘Judgement of Death on a Sage’.
Plato’s Apology, Crito and Phaedo rendered in Irish under a title translating as ‘Judgement of Death on a Sage’.
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"The pie is bigger than it was ten years ago, but it also has to go considerably further."
UL economics lecturer Professor Ciarán Casey examines the current state of the Irish economy.
Read here: www.thejournal.ie/readme/irish...
#StudyAtUL #StayCurious
@ciaranmcasey.bsky.social
UL economics lecturer Professor Ciarán Casey examines the current state of the Irish economy.
Read here: www.thejournal.ie/readme/irish...
#StudyAtUL #StayCurious
@ciaranmcasey.bsky.social
March 14, 2025 at 8:59 AM
"The pie is bigger than it was ten years ago, but it also has to go considerably further."
UL economics lecturer Professor Ciarán Casey examines the current state of the Irish economy.
Read here: www.thejournal.ie/readme/irish...
#StudyAtUL #StayCurious
@ciaranmcasey.bsky.social
UL economics lecturer Professor Ciarán Casey examines the current state of the Irish economy.
Read here: www.thejournal.ie/readme/irish...
#StudyAtUL #StayCurious
@ciaranmcasey.bsky.social
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‘When I asked Desset what one required to decipher an ancient script he said all you really need is “time, patience and luck”. A refusal to accept preconceived limits doesn’t hurt either.’
@tomstevenson.bsky.social on the recently deciphered Linear Elamite script: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@tomstevenson.bsky.social on the recently deciphered Linear Elamite script: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tom Stevenson · Beyond Mesopotamia: Linear Elamite Deciphered
Three things are necessary to decipher ancient writing. You need lots of examples of the script. You need a good...
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March 11, 2025 at 9:26 AM
‘When I asked Desset what one required to decipher an ancient script he said all you really need is “time, patience and luck”. A refusal to accept preconceived limits doesn’t hurt either.’
@tomstevenson.bsky.social on the recently deciphered Linear Elamite script: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@tomstevenson.bsky.social on the recently deciphered Linear Elamite script: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Europe weighs Trump risk to its US weapons systems
https://www.ft.com/content/1503a69e-13e4-4ee8-9d05-b9ce1f7cc89e
https://www.ft.com/content/1503a69e-13e4-4ee8-9d05-b9ce1f7cc89e
Europe weighs Trump risk to its US weapons systems
Long hooked on American defence exports, allies feel buyers’ remorse over hardware dependent on Washington support
www.ft.com
March 9, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Europe weighs Trump risk to its US weapons systems
https://www.ft.com/content/1503a69e-13e4-4ee8-9d05-b9ce1f7cc89e
https://www.ft.com/content/1503a69e-13e4-4ee8-9d05-b9ce1f7cc89e
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As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
January 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
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If you missed it - start your new year with this excellent @wsj.com description of the Russian sleeper agents unmasked last year www.wsj.com/world/europe...
The Global Hunt for Putin’s ‘Sleeper Agents’
A quiet suburban mom, a hard-drinking war correspondent and an Arctic researcher were hiding in plain sight, championed by the Kremlin’s No. 1 fan of spy fiction.
www.wsj.com
January 2, 2025 at 1:51 AM
If you missed it - start your new year with this excellent @wsj.com description of the Russian sleeper agents unmasked last year www.wsj.com/world/europe...
Odd, interesting read. What a single, eccentric but very wealthy person's whims can extort from the wider community
Humphrey’s world: how the Samuel Smith beer baron built Britain’s strangest pub chain
Humphrey’s world: how the Samuel Smith beer baron built Britain’s strangest pub chain
Since the 1970s, Humphrey Smith has acquired scores of pubs and historic properties around the UK. But time after time, he has left the buildings empty. Why has he allowed his empire to moulder?
In early September 2022, Alivia Bienko and her husband,…
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2024 at 11:59 AM
Odd, interesting read. What a single, eccentric but very wealthy person's whims can extort from the wider community
Written 30 years ago, the prescience and accuracy of Edward Luttwak's LRB piece should be obvious. It does for varieties of 'turbocharged capitalism' what so many claim Hayek did for socialism with TRtS: shows persuasively why it cannot possibly end well:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v1...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v1...
Edward Luttwak · Why Fascism is the Wave of the Future
www.lrb.co.uk
December 18, 2024 at 11:23 PM
Written 30 years ago, the prescience and accuracy of Edward Luttwak's LRB piece should be obvious. It does for varieties of 'turbocharged capitalism' what so many claim Hayek did for socialism with TRtS: shows persuasively why it cannot possibly end well:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v1...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v1...
Said holocaust historian Christopher Browning in 2018 in the NYRB: "If the US has someone whom historians will look back on as the gravedigger of American democracy, it is Mitch McConnell"
A pivotal politician in a tumultuous time, Mitch McConnell earned power and used it to shift the country to the right during his 17-year tenure. But with Trump preparing to return to the White House next month, the veteran lawmaker issues a warning from America’s past. www.ft.com/content/11d2...
December 12, 2024 at 12:38 PM
Said holocaust historian Christopher Browning in 2018 in the NYRB: "If the US has someone whom historians will look back on as the gravedigger of American democracy, it is Mitch McConnell"
The best Plato anecdote. In Alice Swift Riginos, Platonica (Brill, 1976), 152
November 30, 2024 at 6:38 PM
The best Plato anecdote. In Alice Swift Riginos, Platonica (Brill, 1976), 152
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‘I’m writing a memoir. It’s a pack of lies’: John Banville on a lifetime in books, bereavement, and the Irish love of words
‘I’m writing a memoir. It’s a pack of lies’: John Banville on a lifetime in books, bereavement, and the Irish love of words
The acclaimed novelist thought he had finished with ‘serious’ books. But now, at 78 and still grieving the loss of his wife, he has a new project on the go
I’m going to get a glass of wine, will you have one?” John Banville asks. “I mean, we’re OK, it’s…
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November 30, 2024 at 12:12 PM
‘I’m writing a memoir. It’s a pack of lies’: John Banville on a lifetime in books, bereavement, and the Irish love of words
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Resources for philosophers on Bluesky (updated)
1. Starter packs
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go.bsky.app/RMuQBg3 (orgs)
2. Philosophy feeds
bsky.app/profile/did:... – uses #philosophy, #PhilSky & other common hashtags
(see profile for others)
3. List of philosophers
bsky.app/profile/did:...
1. Starter packs
go.bsky.app/kiKSKZ (individuals)
go.bsky.app/RMuQBg3 (orgs)
2. Philosophy feeds
bsky.app/profile/did:... – uses #philosophy, #PhilSky & other common hashtags
(see profile for others)
3. List of philosophers
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November 25, 2024 at 1:23 PM
Resources for philosophers on Bluesky (updated)
1. Starter packs
go.bsky.app/kiKSKZ (individuals)
go.bsky.app/RMuQBg3 (orgs)
2. Philosophy feeds
bsky.app/profile/did:... – uses #philosophy, #PhilSky & other common hashtags
(see profile for others)
3. List of philosophers
bsky.app/profile/did:...
1. Starter packs
go.bsky.app/kiKSKZ (individuals)
go.bsky.app/RMuQBg3 (orgs)
2. Philosophy feeds
bsky.app/profile/did:... – uses #philosophy, #PhilSky & other common hashtags
(see profile for others)
3. List of philosophers
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Can early Irish law texts & other ancient sources shed light on some of the strangest lines in Hesiod? Glad to have this speculative piece now J-Stored, in Hermathena Vol. 207.
www.jstor.org/stable/48794...
www.jstor.org/stable/48794...
Hesiod, Op. 750-752 on JSTOR
Paul O’Mahoney, Hesiod, Op. 750-752, Hermathena, No. 207 (Winter 2019), pp. 5-20
www.jstor.org
November 13, 2024 at 12:30 PM
Can early Irish law texts & other ancient sources shed light on some of the strangest lines in Hesiod? Glad to have this speculative piece now J-Stored, in Hermathena Vol. 207.
www.jstor.org/stable/48794...
www.jstor.org/stable/48794...
Philip Roth bequeathed his personal library of c. 3,500 books to the Newark Public Library, where it's a permanent exhibition. A writer's library always sheds some light on the work, by what it contains & what it doesn't. List:
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November 24, 2024 at 8:40 PM
Philip Roth bequeathed his personal library of c. 3,500 books to the Newark Public Library, where it's a permanent exhibition. A writer's library always sheds some light on the work, by what it contains & what it doesn't. List:
npl.org/wp-content/u...
npl.org/wp-content/u...
1. #GE24 FF, FG, SF & PBP all committed in manifestos to abolishing the means test for carer’s allowance. In a previous life I did work on the matter, incl. constructing an answer to a Reasoned Opinion issued by the European Commission regarding exportability of CA
November 21, 2024 at 3:47 PM
1. #GE24 FF, FG, SF & PBP all committed in manifestos to abolishing the means test for carer’s allowance. In a previous life I did work on the matter, incl. constructing an answer to a Reasoned Opinion issued by the European Commission regarding exportability of CA
Anne Enright, Taking Pictures
Philip Ó Ceallaigh, Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse
Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
Philip Ó Ceallaigh, Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse
Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
November 19, 2024 at 8:30 PM
Anne Enright, Taking Pictures
Philip Ó Ceallaigh, Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse
Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
Philip Ó Ceallaigh, Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse
Paul Murray, The Bee Sting
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"The most important insight from Turchin’s predictive models for the contemporary United States is that ‘it is too late to avert our current crisis’....We will see violence and political disorder in the next decade, and that much the United States can no longer avoid"
drb.ie/articles/the...
drb.ie/articles/the...
October 30, 2024 at 4:34 PM
"The most important insight from Turchin’s predictive models for the contemporary United States is that ‘it is too late to avert our current crisis’....We will see violence and political disorder in the next decade, and that much the United States can no longer avoid"
drb.ie/articles/the...
drb.ie/articles/the...
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November 18, 2024 at 2:48 PM
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“What is the role of poetry and literature in EirGrid’s work to achieve its targets, and the transition to low carbon?”
Nice half-hour's listen, with Brendan Tuohy outlining why the answer, surprisingly, is not "None whatsoever".
open.spotify.com/episode/2xZR...
Nice half-hour's listen, with Brendan Tuohy outlining why the answer, surprisingly, is not "None whatsoever".
open.spotify.com/episode/2xZR...
Poetry of Renewable Energy
MaREI Podcast · Episode
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November 15, 2024 at 9:47 AM
“What is the role of poetry and literature in EirGrid’s work to achieve its targets, and the transition to low carbon?”
Nice half-hour's listen, with Brendan Tuohy outlining why the answer, surprisingly, is not "None whatsoever".
open.spotify.com/episode/2xZR...
Nice half-hour's listen, with Brendan Tuohy outlining why the answer, surprisingly, is not "None whatsoever".
open.spotify.com/episode/2xZR...
Can early Irish law texts & other ancient sources shed light on some of the strangest lines in Hesiod? Glad to have this speculative piece now J-Stored, in Hermathena Vol. 207.
www.jstor.org/stable/48794...
www.jstor.org/stable/48794...
Hesiod, Op. 750-752 on JSTOR
Paul O’Mahoney, Hesiod, Op. 750-752, Hermathena, No. 207 (Winter 2019), pp. 5-20
www.jstor.org
November 13, 2024 at 12:30 PM
Can early Irish law texts & other ancient sources shed light on some of the strangest lines in Hesiod? Glad to have this speculative piece now J-Stored, in Hermathena Vol. 207.
www.jstor.org/stable/48794...
www.jstor.org/stable/48794...