Local Work
I’m very proud to be working within the communities of Dublin Central and to be raising my children in Dublin 7. It is a thriving collection of communities but we can do so much more to make it a better places to live, raise our families and grow old in.
Part 4 The paradox of plenty- why we all need to worry about precarious work
Looking from the outside in, the Irish economy is performing really well at the moment- on course to have the highest GDP growth across the EU …
Is precariousness the future of work?- part 3
Precarious work in Ireland is not new. Since the foundation of the ITGWU and SIPTU, it has been an almost constant feature of the Irish labour …
Precarious work in Ireland Part 2
Just days before Christmas 2017, the European Commission issued a proposal to member states to make working conditions across the EU more …
Series on Precarious work in Ireland – Part 1 Behind the shine of Ireland’s employment growth rate
With the exception of the stratospheric growth between 1991 and 2006, the pace of employment growth over the past six years in Ireland has been the fastest over the past 90 years. At a glance, this is great news. However the world of …
The pipe dream of owning a home
What do young workers want? For a number of years now, we have been told that compared with previous generations, the so- called millennials are …
Project Ireland 2040- can it be delivered and is it enough?
On Wednesday, May 16th I spoke at the Infrastructure Ireland 2018 conference organised by Eolas. Presentation is here Two questions hang …
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