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Health Budget Fictions
Patrick Kinsella 22/05/2019
The new chief of the HSE has made cost-containment his top priority. Taking office in mid-May, Paul Reid’s first act was to order senior health …
Bold action on climate change needed now that we have declared emergency
Shana Cohen 14/05/2019
-Appeared in the Irish Times, May 14, 2019. Last week, Ireland became the second country in the world, after the UK, to declare a climate and …
Europe and the Academy of the Judeo-Christian West
Paul Sweeney 10/05/2019
Steve Bannon is establishing an Alt-Right Academy in an Italian monastery, pictured above, in Trisulti, outside Rome, called the Academy of the …
Digital platforms
Rory O'Farrell 03/05/2019
In the mid-2010s, British researchers surveyed the number of digital platform workers (such as workers using Uber, Deliveroo, or Amazon Turk) by …
Europe
Paul Sweeney 24/04/2019
I am writing this in the south west of France, in one of the many villages which were walled to protect from neighbours, looking out at the …
Zero hours work
Michelle O'Sullivan 16/04/2019
There has much attention on zero hours work in Ireland in recent years. Former Labour Party Minister of State for Business and Employment Ged Nash …
Is Ireland a Tax Haven?
Jim Stewart 05/04/2019
For several years various government ministers have stated ‘Ireland is not a Tax Haven’ and the ‘Double - Irish has ended’. Both of these …
Corporate tax policy in Ireland
Jim Stewart 12/03/2019
Tax incentives to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) have been the main tool of industrial policy in Ireland for over 50 years. As a result, …
How can the agricultural sector engage a Just Transition?
Sean McCabe 25/02/2019
How can the agricultural sector in Ireland participate in a Just Transition to constructively address inequality in the sector and tackle climate …
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Jim Stewart
Dr Jim Stewart is Adjunct Associate Professor at Trinity College Dublin. His research …
Sean McCabe
Sean holds an B.Sc in Applied Physics from Dublin City University and an M.Sc. in …
Vic Duggan
Vic Duggan is an independent consultant, economist and public policy specialist catering …