PSAI 2026 Annual Conference Final Programme

The Department of Government and Politics at University College Cork welcomes you to the 2026 annual conference of the Political Studies Association of Ireland. The conference will take place at the Metropole Hotel in Cork City over the weekend 16–18 October 2026. More information on the hotel venue and how to reach it is available…

SHOULD FIANNA FÁIL SEEK A MARK CARNEY? 

Prof Ken Carty (UBC) It is hard to click into an Irish politics podcast these days without hearing some reference to a coming leadership contest in Fianna Fáil. Perhaps that is not so surprising. The current occupant of the office has held it longer than any of his predecessors, with the obvious exception of the…