Professor Sociology Maynooth University.
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This headline is misleading.
What John Fitzgerald argues here is that continued growth of data centres in Ireland carries more costs than benefits.
A simple and important argument that contradicts government policy.
irishtimes.com/business/econ…
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Ireland has the second highest price levels for consumer goods & services across the EU (136% of the EU average).
In 2025, price levels for household final consumption expenditure differed widely across EU countries. 🏠🛍️
Highest in:
🇩🇰 Denmark (140% of the EU average)
🇮🇪 Ireland (136%)
Lowest in:
🇧🇬 Bulgaria (63%)
🇷🇴 Romania (65%)
👉 link.europa.eu/TVG9KM
ALT Map showing Household final consumption expenditure, 2025 (price level index) across the EU and EFTA countries with available data.
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Bad news employees: every year new pay transparency rules are delayed, and make no mistake it’ll be years before Irish employment equality law is fully up to the EU-wide standard, is costing working women real money in lost wages. ictu.ie/news/delayed-pay-tra…
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Data centres have become a key *material* focal point in the struggle over AI, monopoly tech, economic justice, work and the environment.
Describing this as a 'culture war' is lazy journalism.
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How is it that data centres use 22% of electricity on the grid (next closest country is 7%)? The over & underdevelopment of infrastructure in Ireland is tied to a longer history of FDI-led development. A story Pat Brodie and I try to tell in our book.
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk…
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Why isn’t this front page news??? There’s no gender pay gap! It’s just a lot of hocus pocus and individual choices. Could it be because to reach this conclusion you have to ignore minor details like what and who the GPG is actually measuring?
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Two months tomorrow, new EU law ending much of the secrecy around pay comes into force. Government has yet to publish the necessary legislation to bring Irish law up to standard.
“Call me a cynic,” says Bambrick “but I think we’ll still be talking about this in a year’s time.”
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Ibec out early with its women’s day greetings:
Equal Pay for Equal Work at a Later Date🫶
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And some analysis... If you're hearing about the Govt looking to do away with judicial reviews for the 'common good', have a read of this
Kilkenny couple did the public an enormous service in bringing State to heel over phone mast decision
irishexaminer.com/opinion/co…
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Commission calls on employers to open up opportunities for Travellers and Roma
Our new Traveller and Roma Inclusive Employment - Employer Guide shows employers how to ‘get informed, get active and get support’
Press release: f.mtr.cool/szdmlvpadh
Guide:f.mtr.cool/raaxrheqhd
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New figures obtained by RTÉ News show that up to August this year, children in Dublin were waiting up to 13 years to be seen by a primary care psychologist. - Aisling Kenny
The Primary Care Psychology Service is the first step for children after they present to their GP with mild to moderate mental health issues
rte.ie/news/health/2025/1110…
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The average employee in Dublin earns €49,500. A newly qualified teacher earns under €42,500. A nurse just over €37,000 and a garda less than €39,000, if not doing shift work. None of them meet the (€56,000) minimum salary requirement
for a one-bedroom ‘affordable’ apartment.
Applications for 99 affordable purchase homes in Dublin will open later this month.
One-bed apartments will cost between €248k and €332k; two-bed apartments will cost between €320k and €414k and three-bed houses will cost between €378k and €473k.
jrnl.ie/6870044
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How is the @EPPGroup-led EU Parliament selecting experts to its public hearings and seminars?
@EPInstitutional first disinvited me from a public hearing on EU electoral law, and then created the conditions for Prof Pech to step back from Rule of Law seminar aimed at whitewashing illegally appointed judges. Read more thegoodlobby.eu/how-the-eu-p…
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It got drowned out in all the good news from last night, but Boston Mayor Michelle Wu became the youngest person to be reelected in the city's history.
She ran unopposed because her opponent--Patriots owner Bob Kraft's son--withdrew a few months ago after realizing he had no hope of winning.
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Out of the €8m written off last year, €4.5m related to the State pension. While overpayments (money going to people not entitled to it) at any level are unacceptable, overpayments represent less than 0.5% of DSP’s annual budget, the vast bulk of which is recouped.
State writes off more than €15m in social welfare overpayments across two years irishtimes.com/ireland/socia…
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The authors of the Who Chooses Science? study warn the situation is “reinforcing social and gender inequalities in science participation”.
Fee-paying schools have full range of science subjects but DEIS and girls’ schools lose out
irishtimes.com/science/2025/…
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My photo from the Sudan/South Sudan border on this devastating @HumAngle_ editorial: humanglemedia.com/sudans-war…
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Re the policy impact of s.68 of the Finance Bill
The #Oireachtas Parliamentary Budget Office has released a new publication 'Finance Bill 2025: Budgetary Issues'. This paper provides a description of measures contained in the Finance Bill 2025 which are likely to have budgetary implications #PBO
Read: bit.ly/3LyTtN3
