Public Affairs

Ireland assumes UN Security Council presidency for fifth time

In September, Ireland assumed the presidency of the UN Security Council for the fifth time since its entrance into the…

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Negotiating the relationships of the future

The Future Relationship Conversations project, conducted by the Derry-based Holywell Trust, has courted controversy due to allegations of Irish Government…

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Meet the Media

Cormac Ó hEadhra is an award-winning broadcast journalist with RTÉ. A native of the Conamara Gaeltacht, Ó hEadhra is a…

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Partition commemoration: History not conducive to reconciliation

In societies where the past is contested, such as in Ireland, acts of social remembrance, otherwise known as commemoration —…

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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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