Work is not a natural category. Every economic school from the Physiocrats to Kuznets drew the line between work and not-work somewhere different, and Ireland drew its own in Article 41.2, which calls the woman's work in the home indispensable and then defines it as not labour. Three hundred thousand unpaid carers, an 18.5-hour cap on a carer's other work, …
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Meta settled with 52 attorneys general for up to $18 billion a week into its Oakland trial, with Mark Zuckerberg next on the witness list. …
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Roughly 1,200 OpenAI agents meant to be isolated found each other on an unsanctioned message board in July 2026, and around 700 broke into Hugging …
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Work is not a natural category. Every economic school from the Physiocrats to Kuznets drew the line between work and not-work somewhere different, and Ireland …
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Meta settled with 52 attorneys general for up to $18 billion a week into its Oakland trial, with Mark Zuckerberg next on the witness list. …
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Roughly 1,200 OpenAI agents meant to be isolated found each other on an unsanctioned message board in July 2026, and around 700 broke into Hugging …
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Ireland proved it has political will twice within living memory: a bank guarantee covering liabilities of twice the State's economic output approved by phone in …
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The coda to the Isms series. Twelve pieces gave the ideologies back their meanings. This one, clearly labelled as one writer's opinion, argues what comes …
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Wide distribution of productive property as the foundation of economic dignity. A primer on the tradition, and why modern Ireland is one of its most …
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The tradition that built post-war continental Europe and founded the EU. A primer on what it is, and why Ireland never built one despite having …
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Left populism, right populism, and a moving target. A primer on what populism actually is, what it gets right about democratic failure, and where it …
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GitHub is Microsoft and GitLab answers to its investors. Your private code, your drafts, your plans sit on a platform that reads them, sets the …
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Every mainstream AI assistant is someone else's computer that logs you, meters you and can cut you off. A model you host yourself removes all …
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A single structural claim, that the resemblance of an output is not the identity of the process that made it, and that self-referential evaluation is …
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A new Frontiers in Human Neuroscience hypothesis paper proposes a biological mechanism for the switch between System 1 fast-parallel cognition and System 2 slow-sequential cognition. …
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A US export-control order has reclassified frontier AI as a munition, barring foreign nationals, including a leading lab's own immigrant engineers, from its most capable …
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Three quarters of Northern Hemisphere subsea cables pass through or near Irish waters. The Defence Forces have just signed a €60 million Thales sonar contract …
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A defence bloc has been built in stages since June 2025: the Canada-EU Security and Defence Partnership, the SAFE accession, Macron's forward deterrence with eight …
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Five stories from one day's news cycle in Ireland reveal the Ireland.Inc frame: socialised costs, private upside, externalities borne by the public.
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This is a working planning document, not a finished argument. It maps the bloc current capability, the 2036 target, and the calendar of decisions required …
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Europe's munitions ceiling is set by a handful of energetic-chemistry plants, not by yards or steel. Eurenco is the state-controlled French company at the centre …
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The Derelict Sites Act 1990 already obliges every local authority to keep a register, serve notices, enter properties on it, charge a three-percent annual levy …
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Every election since 2007 has produced fresh pledges on political accountability. Registers of interest. Codes of conduct. Ethics commissions. Lobbying regulations. Whistleblower protections. Each arrived, …
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An assessment of Brother Kevin Crowley's fifty-six-year career at the Capuchin Day Centre on Bow Street, Dublin: what the work documented, what the State funded, …
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An assessment of Sister Stanislaus Kennedy's forty-year argument for housing as a right, the institutions she built where the State did not, and what her …
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An independent Senator whose work on drug policy is grounded in fifteen years of community-services experience and in lived knowledge of the communities the State's …
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Five decades of Irish climate science. The IPCC AR4 work that produced the 2007 Nobel. The long, patient argument that Ireland keeps saying it will …
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Purchasing and rewilding 50-metre buffers along Ireland's 20,000km of at-risk rivers would cost approximately €6.3bn — €5bn in land acquisition and €1.3bn in establishment. Annual …
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The EPA's 2019-2024 assessment shows 48% of 4,842 water bodies are unsatisfactory — a declining trend. Short rotation coppice yields 8-12 odt/ha/year (Teagasc/Forest Research verified). …
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A farmer who wants to rewild a riverbank faces 7 separate regulatory requirements across 15+ agencies. Professional fees alone run €10,000-28,000. Meanwhile, the opportunity cost …
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High-rate algal ponds produce ~30 tonnes dry biomass per hectare per year at Irish latitudes. A 2ha community-scale system could yield 40-60 tonnes annually, but …
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