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            <title><![CDATA[Political developments, 2025]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[European Union, 2025]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Joining up public service information: The rationale for a national data infrastructure]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mapping gender representation at Irish elections: Developing the Women for Election Data Hub]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Local government, 2025]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Civil service, 2025]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Justice, 2025]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Education, 2025]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Health services, 2025]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Exiting the International Protection Accommodation Service system: Experiences of housing precarity among international protection beneficiaries in Ireland]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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Amid a rise in international protection applications in Ireland, and a resultant strain on the International Protection Accommodation Service, or direct provision system, pressure has mounted on those granted protection (i.e. international protection beneficiaries) to move on. This has resulted in some exiting the accommodation system through insecure and informal housing arrangements and has even resulted in some ultimately becoming homeless. This research explores this phenomenon. Through semi-structured interviews with local government personnel (staff and councillors), nongovernmental personnel, and international protection beneficiaries affected, the nature of Ireland’s current administrative system is reflected upon, bearing in mind a context analysis that includes consideration of migration in Ireland broadly, the housing crisis, and Ireland local government system. Recommendations are finally provided stemming from the primary research.
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            <title><![CDATA[Setting out a vision for the civil service in Ireland]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Review: Futures for the Public Sector]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ireland’s taskforce on local democracy]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Reconstruction of Workplace Conflict Resolution: The Road to the Workplace Relations Commission in Ireland]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Lessons from the changing regulatory boardroom on ‘onboarding’: An Irish perspective]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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Regulation of nursing and midwifery in Ireland experienced an ideological shift with the enactment of the Nurses and Midwives Act 2011. This Act migrated board membership from traditional registrant-led self-regulation, to a non-registrant majority, colloquially ‘the lay-majority’. This paper reviews the experiences of board members on being part of this lay-majority, the concept of board member identity, and members’ experiences of onboarding. Interpretativist in nature, an insider, action research, mixed methods frame was deployed. Findings demonstrate the lay-majority concept was initially contentious for registrants. Data also highlights a disparity between members’ expectations and experienced boardroom realities. Finally, board members’ experiences of onboarding were of a process in need of improvement. The paper concludes by proposing a ‘lifecycle model of regulatory board member onboarding’. This model stresses the importance of board members’ understanding of the regulatory governance frame, and application of sociocultural approaches to learning as key enablers to becoming an effective board member.
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            <title><![CDATA[Research evidence and policymaking in Ireland]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Unemployment and attitudes to immigrants in Europe: A comparison of early and late countries of immigration]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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Rational economic self-interest predicts that a period of unemployment is likely to increase negative attitudes towards immigrants. Our findings indicate that, in the five countries examined, a period of unemployment does not necessarily lead to more negative attitudes to immigrants. Crucially, the statistical differences in the mean attitudinal scores of the unemployed and those continuously employed disappears when political values are considered. Trust in politicians, political parties and national parliament is a stronger predictor of attitudes to immigrants than a period of unemployment. Additionally, there was no evidence that attitudes among the unemployed towards immigrants differed between countries with a long tradition of immigration and those experiencing immigration more recently such as Ireland and Spain.
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            <title><![CDATA[Reflections on a merger in the Irish charity sector: Expectations, realities and learning]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Local government finance in Ireland: The four pillars of fiscal decentralisation]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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This article outlines Ireland’s system of local government finance using a conceptual framework drawn from the fiscal federalism and municipal finance literature. Commonly referred to as the four pillars of intergovernmental fiscal relations, the four pillars are expenditure assignment, revenue assignment, intergovernmental transfers and local borrowing. After presenting the economic case for local government based on the decentralisation of the allocative function of the public sector, the theory underlying each of the four building blocks is outlined and applied to local public finance in Ireland. Differences between theory and practice are evident, as are differences with practices in other countries, confirming the no-onesize-fits-all approach to intergovernmental finance and fiscal decentralisation. Future reforms in the area of local government finance in Ireland should be cognisant of this framework and the good principles of public finance that follow, in addition to the historical, institutional, and political factors that also determine practices and outcomes.
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            <title><![CDATA[The transformation of pay determination in Ireland]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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The collapse of social partnership in 2009 and several ensuing years of concession bargaining forced Irish unions to innovate in order to restore pay growth and improve conditions. Drawing on a unique dataset of over 1,600 pay agreements, alongside interviews and case studies, this paper provides the first comprehensive analysis of Ireland’s decentralised and primarily firm-level pay-bargaining system since the global financial crisis. Contrary to international portrayals of pay determination in Ireland as uncoordinated and fragmented, the paper reveals how unions have maintained effective pay coordination mechanisms. The analysis traces the shift from company-level ‘pattern bargaining’ to a ‘flexible coordination’ model, shaped by evolving economic and institutional conditions. Findings show that unions have delivered sustained real pay growth, contained pay dispersion, and secured significant improvements in working conditions, while preserving industrial peace. The paper also examines emerging efforts to institutionalise social dialogue and assesses the likely impact of these efforts on the future trajectory of collective bargaining in Ireland. Overall, the study highlights the adaptability and resilience of Irish unions in navigating a liberal market economy, while safeguarding workers’ pay and conditions.
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