Environment: Sustainable cities – Frank J Convery
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009Professor Frank J. Convery, Heritage Trust Professor of Environmental Policy at University College Dublin, reflects on sustainability-related issues during a recent stay in Boston and on universities as agents for change. Boston In scale, atmosphere, demography and sociability, Boston reminds one of Dublin. Irish names everywhere; the Irish national colour everywhere, as the green-attired basketball team – the Boston Celtics – were in the play-offs, and the grass and trees in the Public Gardens and Boston Common were in full growth. And the same Irish fatalism about the weather and...[full story]
Political Platform: Brian Hayes TD
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009Brian Hayes represents Dublin South West and is Fine Gael spokesperson on education and science. The former secondary school teacher was first elected to the Dáil in the 1997 general election. From 1995 to 1997 he was a member of Seanad Éireann and was again elected to the Seanad in July 2002 where he was front bench spokesperson on Dublin and party leader in the upper house, where he was also spokesperson on defence and Northern Ireland. How did you get involved in politics? I joined Fine Gael when I was in college and I became quite active in the party at both a constituency and...[full story]
