Public Affairs

British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference convenes after 11-year hiatus

The British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference (BIIGC) has convened for the first time in over a decade. Conceived as a major provision…

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The implications of Brexit for the North

The challenges of Brexit threaten to disrupt a whole suite of arrangements and presuppositions that have existed on the island…

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Unprecedented presidency

In spite of some resistance to a Presidential Election among the commentariat, the contest for Áras an Uachtaráin is on.…

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Media materialism

How might reality television influence your concerns for the less fortunate? Rodolfo Leyva from the Department of Media and Communications…

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Global Liveability: Dublin’s standing

Now in its 14th consecutive year, The Economist’s Global Liveability Index for 2018 has been published. eolas considers where Ireland…

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Fourth estate: Poachers turned game keepers

Ministerial ‘special advisers’, formerly referred to as ‘programme managers’, are generally utilised as administrative assistants to provide political coordination in…

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Political Platform: Fianna Fáil’s Lisa Chambers TD

How did your political career begin? About nine years ago, I ended up on Pat Kenny’s show ‘The Front Line’…

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Bring back the guillotine

Once censured by critics as a government tool to prematurely curtail parliamentary debate, since the abolition of the guillotine, Dáil…

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The authority to speak

Following the first public lecture organised by An Roinn Ghaeilge agus Léann Cheilteach/the Department of Irish and Celtic Studies in…

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Sinn Féin Ard Fheis 2018

Media focus at Sinn Féin’s 2018 Ard Fheis was primarily concerned with two key junctures: the first was the party’s…

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