Public Affairs

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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One man’s realism is another man’s lack of ambition

David Gavaghan, founder of Aurora Prime Real Estate Ltd and non-executive director of the Confederation of British Industry, responds to…

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