There are good reasons to increase funding to higher education in Ireland, but increased rankings should not be one of them, writes Elaine Burke. “Academics all over the world should weep for the destruction of the concept of the university that has occurred in so many places, which has led to little less than the […]
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A carbon tax increase with ring-fenced funds may be a move in the right direction, but is it enough to deal with the climate emergency? The climate crisis proved extremely relevant in Budget 2020. Although there were, to quote Minister of Finance Paschal Donohoe, “absolutely no surprises” in this year’s Budget, it did include a
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An EU grant of €530m will be put into the €1bn Celtic Interconnector project to link Ireland to Europe’s electric grids via an undersea network. Fears over a potential electricity crisis in a post-Brexit world have seen Ireland turn to its EU neighbours for assistance through the Celtic Interconnector project. The Government confirmed today (2
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Deirdre Lee, CEO and founder of Derilinx, discusses how data transparency goes hand-in-hand with improved data security. As CEO and founder of Derilinx, Deirdre Lee plays a pivotal role in supporting both public and private sector clients to improve data access with the company’s own data portal. Here, in advance of her speaking engagement at
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Apple and the Irish Government have launched their appeal against the EU Commission’s 2016 tax ruling. Lawyers representing Ireland have called the European Commission’s ruling that the country gave Apple €13bn in illegal tax aid “fundamentally flawed” today (17 September) in an appeal against the decision in one of the EU’s highest courts, according to Reuters.
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