By Mary P Murphy (Maynooth University) and John Hogan (Technological University Dublin) The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic followed a decade after the 2008 financial crisis and the related €85 billion European troika bailout of Ireland in 2010. The fallout led to a period of austerity with a significant range of expenditure cuts. These cuts had direct impacts…

By Pauline Cullen and Mary Murphy, Maynooth University Women’s voices in Ireland have not been heard during the pandemic. Covid Women’s Voices, a diverse range of female workers observe daily the gendered realities of the pandemic and call for publicly funded childcare for frontline workers, in-person schooling for children of essential workers, and special protections for care workers…

By Shane Reynolds, PhD Student, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Limerick This weekend’s Sunday Business Post/Red C Opinion Poll, a year on from the first case of Covid in Ireland and slightly over a year since the 2020 general election, follows trends that have become apparent over the last year. The Irish Polling…

Today’s Irish Times poll created a small social media storm as some took delight in the apparent public shift in positions on the restrictions in Covid, and others, particularly supporters of the so-called ZeroCovid strategy, were appalled and immediately tried to poke holes in the survey. They argued that the questions were biased, and pointed…

As many of us prepare to enter a third semester of teaching online we are well placed to reflect on and learn from our different experiences, first pivoting to online in March 2020 and from September to December 2020 delivering full modules online, often to large classes including to new first year students we have…

The next lecture in the UCC-Defence Forces Lecture Series will be on ‘The European Union, Security and Defence: Logic of Integration, Logic of Sovereignty’, by Dr. Andrew Cottey, Department of Government and Politics, University College Cork. The lecture will take place on-line on Thurs 17th December, 6.30-8.00 (Irish/UK time). The zoom link can be found here:…

Democratic Decision-making Consensus Voting for Civic Society and Parliaments Peter Emerson of the de Borda Institute (Belfast) will be launching his new book on Democratic Decision Making this Monday November 30th between 1900-2000hrs Dublin Time. As usual these days its an online virtual event….but full details and an Eventbrite booking link can be found here:…

Dr. Marisa McGlinchey, is the author of Unfinished Business: The ‘politics’ of ‘dissident’ Irish Republicanism. Manchester: MUP. (2019) ISBN 978 0 7190 9698 3. She is based at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations at Coventry University. Her research interest lies in Irish politics with a focus on ‘dissident’ Irish republicanism and constitutional…

A Fianna Fáil minister and a Fine Gael minister will stand up in the Dáil tomorrow to present their agreed budgetary vision for the coming year. It says something about the enormity of the Covid 19 crisis that the shared budgetary platform of the civil war parties will barely get a mention in dispatches.  The…

The Postgraduate Conference of the Political Studies Association of Ireland (PSAI) which was due to take place at the University of Limerick in 2020 will now be held online on the weekend of the 30th of January 2021.   Paper and panel (3-5 papers) proposals are invited from postgraduates studying at all levels (MA and PhD). Seminars on research…