How can the agricultural sector engage a Just Transition?
Sean McCabe 11/06/2019
The second part of this blog on a Just Transition for agriculture considers how to enact a Just Transition for agriculture in Ireland that simultaneously tackles inequality in the agricultural sector, assists rural regeneration and accelerates climate action. Just Transition and the Common Agricultural Policy Awareness for the need of a Just …
What next for Irish unemployment policy?
07/06/2019
By Dr Tom Boland and Dr Ray Griffin WUERC, Waterford Institute of Technology Kindly funded through the IRC New Horizons Interdisciplinary Research …
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 …
Health Budget Fictions
Patrick Kinsella 22/05/2019
The new chief of the HSE has made cost-containment his top priority. Taking office in mid-May, Paul Reid’s first act was to order senior health …
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 …
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Paul Sweeney
Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He is a …
Sinead Pembroke
Dr Sinéad Pembroke is a research fellow at the School of Nursing and Midwifery Trinity …
Rory Hearne
Rory Hearne is a postdoctoral researcher in the Maynooth University Social Sciences …