Two critical issues highlighted in this report: (1) the anxiety of parenting under constant supervision in the international protection system (2) the lack of adequate training of staff at accommodation centres.
Families and children suffer as a result.
dublininquirer.com/2024/04/10/for…

Important piece pointing to the unsuitability of direct provision (and emergency accommodation arrangements) and to the power that staff in these settings have vis a vis parents. Most staff do not have suitable qualifications for this kind of work.

Virgin Media News Virgin Media Television Deeply unserious approach to a very serious issue having that deeply unserious restaurateur 'just asking stupid questions' on

Migrants are more likely to be working

An overwhelming majority of new arrivals are working and are in key sectors (IT and Health in particular)

For the 2nd time recently Eoin O'Malley has targeted trans people with disinformation – this time in a national newspaper. As a social scientist at DCU, it is a matter of professional integrity for him to “communicate research in a transparent, fair, full & unbiased way” but

Delighted to take delivery of the first copies of 'Police Custody in Ireland' (Routledge 2024) just now. routledge.com/Police-Custody… It's dedicated to the memory of my friend and colleague Dr Vicky Conway, and our work together is further remembered in the Acknowledgements.

A developer turning a former convent in Drumcondra into luxury apartments dug up an unmarked mass grave full of women, many of whom were never subsequently identified, and the response was pretty much a giant collective shrug.

People who say “you can’t be racist and Irish” are just enablers, there is no better angel in our nature that’s going to stop the same mainstreaming of far-right politics as elsewhere in Europe happening here without staunch antiracist practice.

Racial Slavery Denialism in 2024: Elon Musk’s “we were all slaves” reactionary position which does not argue that the transatlantic slave trade did not happen, but instead infers that it does not matter and that it has no legacy to understand, accept or reckon with.

Applications are open for a fully funded PhD scholarship at Trinity College Dublin for individuals in the Irish international protection system. Includes full tuition for a four year PhD plus an annual stipend of €25,000. More information is available below:
tcd.ie/study/postgrad…

I'm not going to quote tweet his transphobic nonsense so I'll just post this evergreen image

Another chapter in terrible media polling coverage this weekend. This kind of sports analysis shows a deep misunderstanding of what is happening, what is at stake AND what is affecting voting preferences.

1/ just read the Sindo article by a political scientist colleague on trans issues. If I were to begin to talk all that is wrong in the article we’d be here all day. But a few things gender dysphoria is not ‘normalised and common’ as he claims. The sentence ‘there should be no

Still on strike. On the first day, my colleagues and I joined AFL-CIO and CWA leaders in an informational picket and worked on proposals for the bargaining table. @gannett locked us out of our technology and posted our jobs. Do they really want to give us a contract?