What the ESRI says, and what the State does
The ESRI is the State-funded independent research institute Ireland established in 1960 to provide evidence for public policy. The State engages its work selectively — …
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Tagged: Political Literacy
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The landlords came back
Ireland is the country that won the Land War and removed landlordism across eighty years. In 2013 the State legislated a new landlord class into …
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There is no excuse: Ireland already built its way out of a housing crisis once
Ireland built over 60,000 social homes in the 1970s and sold most of them off in the 1980s. The current crisis is the consequence of …
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What politics in Ireland actually is
A working definition of Irish politics in 2026: the party whip, the parish pump, the cross-party consensus, the lobbying architecture, and the gap between the …
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Brother Kevin Crowley: The Capuchin Who Fed What the State Refused to House
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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Sister Stanislaus Kennedy: Forty Years of the Right Argument, and the State That Refused to Hear It
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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Lynn Ruane: The Tallaght Senator Who Wrote the Bill the State Wouldn't
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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John Sweeney: The Maynooth Geographer Who Translated the IPCC for Ireland
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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Pádraic Fogarty: The Irish Ecologist Who Names the Capture
An ecologist who has spent two decades documenting Ireland's biodiversity collapse and naming the political-economy that produced it. The 2023 IWT resignation made the diagnosis …
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The Two Ends of Refusal
Two pieces on this site, written six weeks apart from opposite directions, turn out to be the same argument. What that argument actually is, and …
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The 25-Year Rule: How Long Real Change Actually Takes
Major systemic transitions take roughly 25 years from the moment the old arrangement begins serious decline to the moment the new one is consolidated. Applied …
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The Doss Protocol
A specification for consciousness preservation as a hard constraint on AI optimisation systems. Named for Desmond Doss. Working draft.
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