The 14th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference in association with the South East Technological University (SETU) Waterford will provide a forum for the presentation of research papers on labour market...

The literature on ‘sustainable welfare’ argues that meeting everyone's needs within planetary boundaries requires the financing of welfare to become independent from economic growth. However, it re...

Leaked University of Galway report said there was a ‘sustained decline’ in undergraduate enrolment for degree but what is the value of one?

Homeless figures have surpassed 17,000 for the first time.

‘Urgent’ reform aims to meet changing needs of students as they seek ‘direct routes to employment’

Transposition of the much-debated EU Directive on adequate minimum wages, adopted in October 2022, was due by November 2024. This article examines how the Minim...

Exclusive: Poverty rapporteur says governments must rethink welfare state as essential to fabric of society

Nearly 80 per cent of the world’s poor – 887 million people – live in regions that are exposed to extreme heat, flooding and other climate hazards, highlighting the urgent need for global action to ad...

The European Union is undergoing strategic redefinition through wartime conditions and shifting global orders, seeking to position itself as a geopolitical power. Enlargement and deeper integration...

ALEXANDER HORN, K. JONATHAN KLÜSER, MARTIN HASELMAYER

Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.

Lorcan Sirr: How are people with disposable income of €20,067 to afford the average rent of €17,280?

Housing crisis causing huge problems for workers, conference hears

This article examines the impact of advocacy for non-housing issues and its spillover onto housing movements. Adopting the viewpoint that activism is a social practice that generates knowledge, this s...

The former Waterford Crystal manufacturing site is to be transformed to form part of the country’s first university enterprise quarter.

Politics and Administrative Justice - Postliberalism, Street-Level Bureaucracy and the Reawakening of Democratic Citizenship; This book argues there is urgent need for a radical reassessment of the way...

Gaza is on the brink of famine. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, a multistakeholder global initiative aimed at enhancing food security and nutrition analysis, reports that the entire...

Two weeks on from the publication of the near decade-long Farrelly commission investigation into the 'Grace' foster home abuse case, and questions are still being asked about its findings, writes Fiac...

The prison population across Ireland exceeds 5,000 in a system with bed capacity for over 4,600, leaving the Irish Prison Service operating at 14% over capacity.

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly presented as a potential substitute for humans, including as research subjects. However, there is no sci...