The spread of health disinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic
Lauren Cotter 28/04/2025
When Ireland entered its first national COVID-19 lockdown on March 27th, 2020, people turned to social media for updates and health information. Alongside the accurate and helpful information from official health organisations such as the HSE, the ECDC, and the CDC, a wave of misleading and false content plagued social media. This surge of …
Political Imagination and a Laboratory of Social Possibilities
Mary Murphy 28/04/2025
This short blog is an argument for civil society to grow its capacity to incubate alternatives and to promote the idea of a collective ‘laboratory …
The Speaking Rights Row
Tiarnán McDonough 27/03/2025
The scenes of disorder in the Dáil chamber yesterday will have alarmed many. The row between government and opposition over speaking rights has been …
Fighting for Democracy in an Age of Complacency
Shana Cohen 18/03/2025
The 2025 Programme of Government embraces ‘stability’ in a time of geopolitical upheaval and democratic backsliding. The new government’s …
Rethinking Irish and Global Healthcare
Lauren Cotter 05/03/2025
The IGHNx: Global Health Reimagined event was held by the Irish Global Health Network, co-hosted by the HSE Global Health Programme, on the 13th of …
Navigating Digital Healthcare: Equity, Access, and the HSE Health App
Adeelia Goffe, Molly Newell, Maria (Marysia) Pachowicz 04/03/2025
The 2024 EU Digital Decade report reaffirmed what many HSE beneficiaries already suspected: The state of Ireland’s e-health systems is woefully …
The EU Minimum Wage Directive: To Be or Not to Be?
Roland Erne 26/02/2025
The year began dramatically for Social Europe. On 14 January, Nicholas Emiliou, one of the European Union’s Advocates General, advised the Court of …
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Paul Sweeney
Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …
Kirsty Doyle
Kirsty Doyle is a Researcher at TASC, working in the area of health inequalities. She is …
Shana Cohen
Dr. Shana Cohen is the Director of TASC. She studied at Princeton University and at the …