Dr.Ruth Casey

Member of NUI Senate @NUIMerrionSq | Lecturer @WeAreTUDublin | Board member of Dental Council | #Transnationalpartnerships #Governance | Play the concert harp

[Dr.Ruth Casey @RuthMCasey]

With ongoing geopolitical challenges, my article in @uniworldnews is asking the European Union to lean more on universities to achieve its political priorities.

#Erasmus+ #EuropeanUniversitiesinitiative #IrishPresidency

https://t.co/uLIpqk90Kb

[Dr.Ruth Casey @RuthMCasey]

@Conor1960 My warmest congratulations to Hannah and Niamh. Every best wish for the future together.

[The Irish Times @IrishTimes]

🔺Six of Ireland’s eight universities have moved up the rankings of the world’s top universities, according to the latest global survey.

🔺The Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) world rankings compare the performance of the world’s top 1,500 universities across 106 countries.

🔺Trinity College Dublin remains the highest ranking university in Ireland, coming in at 75th for a second year in a row

See the full list here: https://t.co/phnaRhpxV9

[RTÉ News @rtenews]

The Cabinet is to discuss new proposals aimed at protecting Irish universities and other educational institutions from espionage and foreign interference https://t.co/yIaXnQoOzd

[Dr.Ruth Casey @RuthMCasey]

Utterly superb.

[Tolkien World @TolkienWorldG]

Sir Ian McKellen at 86 expertly reciting Shakespeare last night!

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

I don't often share my own emotions here. I mostly stick to facts and reason. But I'm actually a very emotional person.

The situation in Kyiv with freezing people in cold homes that are left without electricity, heating and water during the cold winter after deliberate Russian attacks is simply terrible.

The most vulnerable, the weakest, the old, the sick, the tiny kids and their parents - these suffer the most. They have nowhere to go or they simply can't move. A lot of people have nothing apart from those cold walls.

Their suffering doesn't help Russia reach any military goals.

Ukraine will not fall, the frontline will not collapse. Ukraine is still a large and strong country. What Russia does and what it is able to do is cause great suffering to average Ukrainians. Russia puts people on the brink of survival, makes people's lives unbearable.

This is a tragedy of a huge scale and people who are surviving through this want to understand what this is all for.

In almost four years of the full-scale war Ukraine demonstrates incredible resilience and bravery. An exhausted Ukraine is a direct threat to European security. A strong Ukraine means a protected Europe.

Ukraine needs air defense and security guarantees.

[Dr.Ruth Casey @RuthMCasey]

@Mij_Europe @alexstubb I agree. He is excellent.

[Prosenjit @mitrapredator]

Unbelievable, What a moment in history. Europe is now pulling India into the equation just to balance the U.S.

[Ulf Kristersson @SwedishPM]

Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom

As members of NATO, we are committed to strengthening Arctic security as a shared transatlantic interest. The pre-coordinated Danish exercise ”Arctic Endurance” conducted with Allies, responds to this necessity. It poses no threat to anyone.

We stand in full solidarity with the Kingdom of Denmark and the people of Greenland. Building on the process begun last week, we stand ready to engage in a dialogue based on the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity that we stand firmly behind.

Tariff threats undermine transatlantic relations and risk a dangerous downward spiral. We will continue to stand united and coordinated in our response. We are committed to upholding our sovereignty.

https://t.co/7TS0rp0cGz

[Alexander Stubb @alexstubb]

My book, The Triangle of Power – Rebalancing the New World Order, is out today in English and Swedish. It is an attempt to explain what is going on in international relations and how we can get things back on track again.

Worked on it for four years. Tried to make it short and snappy without cutting too many corners. It will come out in 12 different languages.

My main argument is that the liberal world order is unravelling. Multilateral cooperation is giving away to multipolar rivalry and conflict. The new world order is being shaped by three major forces: the Global West, the Global East and the Global South. Many moving parts at the moment, but my main thesis is that it will be the Global South that determines whether the world will tilt towards cooperation or fragmentation.

The book is a call for values-based realism and dignified foreign policy. Unless our current international institutions are reformed, we will be moving back to a Hobbesian world. Let’s make sure it won’t happen. Everyone has agency. If there is a problem, fix it.

[Brigid Laffan @BrigidLaffan]

There are many people who think that the Irish economy is dependent on agriculture-just 2% of GNI in 2024 but even if one widens it to Agri-food it amounts to 6% of employment & 8% of merchandised exports. 8-10% of gross added value. It is important but is no longer dominant

[Gerard Howlin @GerardHowlin]

Ireland voting against #Mercosur is bad politics in Brussels for no political gain at home. Its a vote that sabotages our national interest on trade, undermines our credibility in EU and makes leaders look like followers.

[Daniel Mulhall @DanMulhall]

@williamcrawley How will Denmark feel today? Is Greenland next on the list? How will domestic US opinion take this development? How will it go down with MAGA, Congress? Will Maduro’s bad image blunt international criticism of the US move?

[BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine @RobLooseCannon]

Trevor Deely disappeared into the rainy Dublin night on the 7th of December 2000. The 22 year olds life was just beginning. He'd started working in finance with Bank of Ireland Asset Management. He'd just moved from Naas, renting an apartment in Ballsbridge walking distance from his job.

That fateful night he went to the office Christmas party in the Hilton Hotel that carried on to Buck Whaley’s on Leeson Street. Around 3.25 am, in the lashing rain and wind he left the club. There was a taxi strike that night.

Instead of going straight home, at 3.35 am he stopped at his office on Wilton Terrace on the way. CCTV shows him letting himself in, soaking wet. He went upstairs, checked his emails and got a large dark blue umbrella marked with white ACC Bank lettering.

Just before 4.00 am, he rang a mate and left a casual voicemail saying he was heading home. At 4.03 am, he exited the building and turned towards Haddington Road, the route he would normally take to Ballsbridge. He was never seen again.

At 4.14 am, CCTV captured Trevor walking past a Bank of Ireland ATM on Haddington Road. He was heading south, umbrella up. This is the last confirmed image of him. A man dressed in black appeared shortly after Trevor passed the ATM. In December 2023, Gardaí identified him and removed the person from the investigation.

Separate CCTV from Wilton Terrace shows an unidentified man standing near the office entrance for approx 30 minutes before Trevor arrived. When Trevor reached the gate, the two spoke briefly. This is the critical interaction that might explain both Trevors reason for going to the office instead of home in such horrific weather, and why he subsequently disappeared.

Trevor then entered the building alone. But what was the mystery mans reason for being there waiting so long at that hour in horrible weather? This interaction has never been explained.

We could speculate it was an innocent fellow employee, but if so why didn't he enter or come forward later? Was a random dude on his way home from a Xmas party, but if so why was he standing in the rain? And surely after the massive media coverage why didn't he clear his name?

Or was he waiting there for Trevor, perhaps with or for something they'd arranged to exchange? Speculation aside he is the last person known to have spoken to Trevor Deely. Where did that bleedin huge ACC Bank umbrella go even? There was a Taxi strike that night, perhaps predators took advantage of that?

There was no debit card activity from Trevors account after that night like you'd expect from an opportunistic mugging gone wrong. Likewise that regular scumbag was unlikely to dispose of a body without detection.

Over the past 25 years, Gardaí have searched water and underground and followed countless dead ends. The Dodder and the Grand Canal were examined repeatedly by the Garda sub-aqua unit. The logic was perhaps the poor chap after a few gargles had a slip on a wet night. No trace was found.

In 2017, a tip-off claimed Trevor had a "chance encounter with a local gang member" and was shot and buried in Chapelizod. This led to a large scale excavation.

Shockingly a gun was recovered. But when other illicit material, like a significant quantity of drugs, was also found it seemed this was a stash site unrelated to Trevor’s case. No direct evidence exists linking his disappearance to this place, apart from the dubious informer, who undoubtedly knew about the presence of other illegal material there.

I cant imagine the unending nightmare for Trevor’s family. They have kept searching, particularly his brother Mark and sister Michele. This isn't some Dublin ghost story. The is a real human being. That poor lad went somewhere, perhaps against his will with somebody, and someone knows why and where he is.

If you have information contact:
Pearse Street Garda Station
01 6669000

Garda Confidential Line
1800 666 111

National Missing Persons Ireland
1800 442 552 or email [email protected]

[Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen]

As we start the New Year 2026, you can count on me and my team to continue working relentlessly to make Europe stronger.

Stronger at home, by fully mobilising Europe’s extraordinary potential for competitiveness and innovation in a world that is changing faster than ever.

Stronger on the global stage, by forging new partnerships and standing up for the values our friends and allies count on us to defend: openness, good faith and democracy.

Speaking from the bottom of my heart, my wish for 2026 is peace. A just and lasting peace for Ukraine.

For nearly four years, the Ukrainian people have shown extraordinary courage under the fire of an unprovoked war.

We wish them and all people across the world peace, well-deserved peace, in 2026.

[Dr.Ruth Casey @RuthMCasey]

This is beautiful.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Carol of the Bells in Kyiv subway.

Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine.

Thankful to everyone who stands with us!

[Kaja Kallas @kajakallas]

We continue to stand in solidarity with Denmark and Greenland.

Greenland is an autonomous territory in the Kingdom of Denmark. Any changes to that status are for Greenlanders and Danes alone to decide.

We expect all our partners to respect their sovereignty and territorial integrity and to abide by their international commitments, enshrined inter alia in the United Nations Charter and the North Atlantic Treaty.

[Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen]

Arctic security remains a key priority for the European Union, and one in which we seek to work with allies and partners.

Territorial integrity and sovereignty are fundamental principles of international law.

These principles are essential not only for the European Union, but for nations around the world.

We stand in full solidarity with Denmark and the people of Greenland.

[John Mooney @JohnMooneyIRL]

The Irish Military Intelligence Service of ⁦@defenceforces⁩ did me the honour of allowing me to be the first journalist to interview a senior officer. IMIS explained its mission, its counter-intelligence capabilities and the dangers posed by China and Russia.

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

The EU’s €90bn loan to Ukraine is NOT a Belgium win or German loss. Stop framing everything as bilateral bargaining.

This is the first common borrowing by a sub-group of member states - unanimous (V3 accepted the deal but opted out) and pragmatic.

It shows the EU can adapt its institutional tools to new realities.

The transactional narrative is the real threat to European solidarity.