📢 New PublicPolicy.ie paper by Dympna O'Sullivan, Emma Murphy, Sarah Gavra Boland, Patrick Fitzgerald, Julie Doyle, Anna Becevel & Ulla Geisel: “Inclusion4EU: Co-Designing Digital Futures for Older Persons and Persons with Disabilities” This paper highlights how

New PublicPolicy.ie paper by Christina Todorova, Donghyeok Lee, Yilin Li & Alireza Dehghani CeADAR Ireland University College Dublin “Extending the AI Talent Pipeline and Exploring Responsible Approaches to Inclusive Upskilling”. This paper examines the evolving landscape of AI

#SimonTalks with Michelle Norris and Altaf Hossain will be taking place next Monday. We will be discussing Housing Precarity and Migrants in Dublin 🏘️ There is still time to register! 👇 us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

The business school over-expanded, and enrollments are lagging. So below are planned cuts in the College of Arts & Humanities. We are, after all, one university!

Are you involved in policy making, implementation or research on policy in Ireland? Would you like to spend time at UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy writing a reflection on a critical policy challenge? Applications expert residency programme are now open! Details below.

Best Cork song of all time? #Cork #AllIrelandChampions

#Intel layoffs announced in July cross 5,000

Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

Looking forward the the 2nd Irish Public Economics Workshop on 1-2 Sept 2025. 20 highly relevant papers, a policy discussion on how researchers can help shape and support policy, and keynote by Dina D. Pomeranz 🟣. To attend: buytickets.at/irishpubliceco… For info: publiceconomics.ie

I visited flats where temperatures in hallways exceeded 35 degrees, even though it was 25 outside. One heavily pregnant resident’s flat was so hot, she’d had to move out This is the story of Britain’s overheating new builds, and it’s going to get worse inews.co.uk/news/its-35c-f…

📰 New policy brief on PublicPolicy.ie “Towards Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Energy Trading: A Policy Pathway for Ireland’s Decentralised Energy Future.” by Dr Sweta Malik, Dr Ciarán Mac Domhnaill, John Doody, and the UCD Energy Institute, proposes a phased roadmap to enable P2P

All of the arguments made in this excellent book about the problems created by policy makers' over reliance on consultants apply to Ireland too.

🌍 UNECE Webinar Series: Inclusive Urban Recovery in Ukraine Rebuilding cities that work for all – 👩‍👧women, 🏠 IDPs, ♿ people with disabilities, 👶youth & 👵 older adults. Stay tuned to learn more! #Ukraine #UrbanRecovery #CitiesForAll

Am I just really out of touch, or has it not quite leaked through to the national conversation that real-terms London house prices are down almost a fifth from their peak (nine years ago!) and that the total decline is now almost as much as during 2008-09 (-19% vs -21%)

Fascinating paper on the potential environmental benefits of peer to peer energy trading on publicpolicy.ie publicpolicy.ie/environment/to…

📰 New policy paper on PublicPolicy.ie “Moving to Self-Completion: Challenges and Opportunities for Survey Data Collection in Ireland” by Micheál L. Collins and Olga Li, Geary Institute for Public Policy, University College Dublin, discusses some findings from the Irish

Surely this is satire?

Ireland has the fewest number of labour inspectors in the EU, bar Malta. A weak and under-resourced labour inspectorate puts employees at risk, allows low-road employers to undermine good businesses, and weakens consumer safety. Everyone loses. Source: ILO

The LDA is set to lodge plans for 285 new affordable homes at The Gasworks, Dock Rd. in Limerick. Proposed scheme includes: 142 one-, 127 two-, and 16 three-bed apartments. Key community infrastructure, including a childcare facility and retail units. lda.ie/news/gasworks-…

I like this idea but the Dept of Housing wouldn't need to examine it (& amend the legislation to enable it) if they didn't micromanage housing policy implementation. Decisions on targeting cost rental units should be left to local authorities not specified in national legislation