TASC leads with intersectionality on inequality, isolation and loneliness

Maisie Greener 30/06/2025

TASC’s flagship annual report, The State We Are In: Inequality in Ireland 2025, highlights inequality as a central issue for both economic research and policymaking. While Ireland’s challenges mirror global trends, they are also shaped by uniquely local factors. This year’s report explores the short-term relief brought by recent …

Irish Times 'Inside Politics' Podcast: Neiman on why ‘left’ and ‘woke’ are not the same thing

TASC 03/06/2025

This week’s Irish Times Inside Politics podcast featured philosopher Susan Neiman, who also spoke at TASC’s recent Annual Lecture. In the …

Creating Accountability for Data Centres in Western Dublin

Molly Newell 27/05/2025

Ireland’s booming data centre industry has become a major flashpoint in the country’s energy and climate debates. With data centres projected to …

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. …

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 …

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