Solicitor, consultant, artist, writes TheGist.ie newsletter.
Visiting Lecturer. External Examiner in Data Protection law.
Simon McGarr
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CJEU, financial services/sanctions
New judgment: banks in the EU cannot refuse to open a basic bank account solely because someone is on the sanctions list of the US (or another non-EU country) - curia.europa.eu/site/upload/...
(perhaps relevant to US sanctions against the ICC?)
Though to be fair, he did just gift the world a clip where a Government Minister says “We’re perfectly entitled”
The weather has sapped my strength of will.
I have three part-written Gists in draft but none of them are providing me with the propulsive force to get to the end. To make them all more than sketches, I need to feel the fun.
But it is so wet.
Yesterday Jim O’Callaghan, looking like he attended immediately after belatedly being tagged in the ice-bucket challenge, stood up in the Seanad and said that Ireland was was going to use its own legal definitions of what biometric identification is.
Except that’s not how EU law works.
Is this the #Speirgorm hour, come at last?
I assume Met Eireann have run out of scientific explanations for this weather and just admit that God has forsaken Ireland.
Simon McGarr
@tupped.bsky.social once advised me, when pondering the state of the world, to pay attention to The Money. Not the VC promises of money tomorrow but The Money as a visceral power. When The Money decides something The Money tends to make it happen. When The Money coughs, someone is catching a plague.
Simon McGarr
Simon McGarr
Weary observers may recall a version of this stunt being pulled by the Department of Social Protection, which spent several years pretending it didn't know what the word biometric meant after its minister stood up in the Dáil and stated that her department wasn't processing biometric data.
