A Critical Election, A Crucial Choice
Shana Cohen 22/05/2019
This week, citizens in EU countries will go to the polls to elect MEPs. These elections are widely considered to be the most important for some time, if not in the history of the European Union. The EU-wide vote is also occurring in a year when much of the world’s population will participate in or has already gone through the same democratic …
Bold action on climate change needed now that we have declared emergency
Shana Cohen 14/05/2019
-Appeared in the Irish Times, May 14, 2019. Last week, Ireland became the second country in the world, after the UK, to declare a climate and …
Europe and the Academy of the Judeo-Christian West
Paul Sweeney 10/05/2019
Steve Bannon is establishing an Alt-Right Academy in an Italian monastery, pictured above, in Trisulti, outside Rome, called the Academy of the …
Digital platforms
Rory O'Farrell 03/05/2019
In the mid-2010s, British researchers surveyed the number of digital platform workers (such as workers using Uber, Deliveroo, or Amazon Turk) by …
Europe
Paul Sweeney 24/04/2019
I am writing this in the south west of France, in one of the many villages which were walled to protect from neighbours, looking out at the …
Zero hours work
Michelle O'Sullivan 16/04/2019
There has much attention on zero hours work in Ireland in recent years. Former Labour Party Minister of State for Business and Employment Ged Nash …
Is Ireland a Tax Haven?
James Stewart 05/04/2019
For several years various government ministers have stated ‘Ireland is not a Tax Haven’ and the ‘Double - Irish has ended’. Both of these …
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Robert Sweeney
Robert Sweeney is a policy analyst at TASC and focuses on issues surrounding Irish …
Paul Sweeney
Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He is a …
Alicja Bobek
Alicja Bobek has a PhD in Sociology from Trinity College Dublin, an MA in Sociology and …