Public Affairs
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Flaws in Ireland’s FOI framework
While technology has evolved since 1998, the challenges faced by Freedom of Information (FOI) requesters remain stubbornly in situ writes…
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Bacik wins Dublin Bay South byelection
After nine counts, Ivana Bacik of Labour was declared the Dáil’s latest Teachta Dála in July 2021’s Dublin Bay South…
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Debates Office centenary: “An essential ingredient of our democracy”
Ahead of the centenary of the establishment of the Debates Office, Ciarán Galway sits down with Houses of the Oireachtas…
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Trade Union Desk
As we emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic, SIPTU researcher and author of the Notes on the Front political economy blog,…
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Special advisers on the rise
Special advisers are directly employed by a government minister or a minister of state with their terms of employment beginning…
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Deepening cooperation on the Dublin-Belfast Economic Corridor
Ulster University economist Eoin Magennis overviews the findings of a joint report from Dublin City University and Ulster University on…
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Northern Protestants: On Shifting Ground
Journalist and author of Northern Protestants: On Shifting Ground, Susan McKay, discusses an evident shift away from the “ethnic huddle”…
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Desmond O’Malley: 1939–2021
A TD for 34 years, former Government Chief Whip, holder of three ministerial portfolios and founding leader of the Progressive…
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Meet the Media
A graduate of NUI Galway, Caroline O’Doherty is an environment correspondent with the Irish Independent. Equipped with over three decades…
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Political Platform
First elected to the Dáil in February 2020, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill is Fine Gael’s TD for the Dún Laoghaire constituency.…
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