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Stop digging on issue of raised bogs 5 Jul 2013 | 11:51 am
A lost family photograph of ours evokes a particular memory for me. I was about four years of age standing next to my grandfather who was standing next to his donkey which had baskets on either side f...
Open government initiative seeks public engagement 28 Jun 2013 | 02:09 am
Openness and accountability are hot topics – but this isn’t a story about Edward Snowden, the NSA, GCHQ or the Anglo tapes. Ireland is currently holding a public consultation on signing up to the Open...
Open govermnent initiative seeks public engagement 28 Jun 2013 | 02:09 am
Openness and accountability are hot topics – but this isn’t a story about Edward Snowden, the NSA, GCHQ or the Anglo tapes. Ireland is currently holding a public consultation on signing up to the Open...
Ireland 'pimped out like prostitutes' to 'war criminal' Obama 19 Jun 2013 | 06:47 pm
Video: Addressing Taoiseach Enda Kenny on Wednesday, Clare Daly TD was harshly critical of Ireland’s “unprecedented slobbering” over the Obama family during their visit to Ireland during the G8 summit...
Ethics in banking a question of regulation 15 May 2013 | 11:54 pm
Last week former Taoiseach and President of IFSC Ireland, John Bruton, said that the banking industry needed "to focus on ethics rather than regulation". As someone who strongly supports the idea of e...
It's Capitalism Stupid 6 May 2013 | 05:00 am
"It's Capitalism Stupid" is the tag line for a festival organised by the Colletivo Prezzemolo -researchers and workers at the European Institute University (EUI) - in Florence, Italy which is running ...
Opportunity to create a People's paper 14 Apr 2013 | 05:23 pm
FC Barcelona is one of the most successful football clubs in the world and, although like most of the big football clubs around the world. Unlike almost all of the major Premiership clubs elsewhere in...
Sex at the Margins: Interview with Laura Agustín 4 Apr 2013 | 04:14 pm
Laura Agustín is renowned for her ground-breaking research, writing and advocacy on migration, sex work and trafficking. Her writing is available on her blog The Naked Anthropologist and in her highly...
What does 'Euro' mean? 27 Mar 2013 | 04:21 pm
Is a euro in a Cypriot bank, locked down by withdrawal limits and capital controls, the same as a euro in an Irish or French bank? Is a euro sitting in, say, a payroll account in Laiki with a balance ...
Patricia Hill Collins in Conversation 19 Mar 2013 | 11:39 pm
On Wednesday, March 20, UCD Women’s Studies hosts renowned sociologist, Prof. Hill Collins for a public lecture entitled ‘Where do we go from here? Intersectionality and Social Justice’. Prof. Hill C...
