Public Affairs
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Transition year: promoting independence
Transition year is “one of the few hopes” the Irish education system has of teaching pupils how to learn, as…
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Census explained
In March, the CSO will begin publishing nine volumes and two profiles of census information. Stephen Dineen talks to Deirdre…
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Road safety update
2011 was the seventh year in a row of declining road fatalities. The Government is now planning for drug driving…
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Dublin named City of Science 2012
A year-long programme of science related events and activities will celebrate Dublin being host to Europe’s most prestigious science gathering,…
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Bringing the past to life at the National Archives Treaty exhibition
Meadhbh Monahan looks at the National Archives’ Anglo-Irish Treaty exhibition, launched 90 years after its signing, and discusses its significance…
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Historian Terence Dooley previews the decade of centenaries
Historian Terence Dooley sees a decade of centenaries as an opportunity to hear forgotten voices and reassess our Irishness. Earlier…
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A look inside the EU visitor’s centre
Peter Cheney visits the Parlamentarium, the European Parliament’s new visitors’ centre in Brussels. To promote itself to an apathetic public,…
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Party conference season
This spring will see a full season of party conferences for the first time since 2009. Neither Fine Gael nor…
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Irish-English explained
Professor Terence Dolan, who has just completed a third edition of his Hiberno-English dictionary, discusses the way Irish people use…
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Oireachtas Roundup
Budget 2012 was followed by a u-turn on disability benefit while Labour saw a third TD lose the party whip.…
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