Small talk is a powerful workplace asset, but can exclude new and diverse staff
Seemingly innocuous workplace small talk can go awry when leaders and team members forget to put themselves in a newcomer’s shoes
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Supreme Court ruling on wind farms requires all public bodies to consider climate impacts
Judgment states public bodies must try to act in line with national climate targets
Blaming Met Éireann for floods is wrong. Who rezoned the floodplains?
It is now over 20 years since I led the project to give the first scenario-based projections of Ireland’s future climate. We warned Ireland’s winters would become significantly wetter
Transgender rights misinformation is the last thing schools need
It was irresponsible of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties to publish the Know Your Rights guide
Storm Chandra: Does climate change make small streams and more frequent flooding new risks?
As Johan Keating dragged sodden possessions from his home this week, the little river that trickled uneventfully through his life had left scars previously unimaginable
Storm Chandra floods made three times more likely by climate change
Analysis shows rainfall preceding storm left areas ‘primed’ for flooding
What should you be thinking about when deciding on a third-level college?
Students should think beyond their course choices towards career options, experts advise
Living in a mould-covered garden studio: ‘Christmas is going to be miserable’
Oriel Corway says her lungs and mental health have been affected by the state of her rented living quarters in Tallaght
Ireland is falling for the American fossil fuel industry’s ‘energy security’ con
One of the reasons this argument has been so effective is because, like all good propaganda, there is an element of truth to it
‘I knew nothing about this island’: From Venezuela to Ireland
Maria Isabel Meza-Silva moved to Ireland from South America in 2017
Living in cold, mouldy, damp council homes in south Dublin
Survey finds problems including inability to keep house warm due to lack of insulation, old windows and inefficient heating systems
Storm Claudia rainfall and flooding made twice as likely by climate change
Met Éireann and Maynooth University scientists say rainfall levels will increase as planet heats further
Cop30: Talks lead to hope but ‘not nearly enough’ action on climate crisis
Decisions on fossil fuels and finance deferred for further negotiations, some of which are three years away
Our psychology services are overwhelmed. It doesn’t have to be like this
Primary care psychology is a reservoir of human suffering and missed opportunities
Leon Diop: ‘The far right want to turn this into an immigrant problem, but they just don’t like black and brown people’
The founder of advocacy group Black and Irish on the childhood racism he experienced in Tallaght, overcoming his identity crisis, and the recent violence in Citywest
Drones that support emergency services could be ‘revolutionary’
Research project demonstrated how the new technology could help first responders rapidly locate and understand casualties
RTÉ receives formal complaint over ‘exclusion’ of climate issues from presidential debates
Letter signed by academics, NGOs and medics alleges breach of public service obligations
Maynooth University officially launches new school of nursing
Nursing school currently has 27 undergraduates, with number of students due to rise to 100 within four years
‘Take care of mum, okay?’ These were my last words to Gaza before I left for Ireland
At night, I dream my brother Nour is looking for me. ‘I’m in Ireland, Habibi,’ I say to him. ‘Everything is green and lovely’
Bram Stoker, the corncrake and ‘folklore as resistance’: Making Macnas’s Halloween parade
Louise Lowe and Owen Boss of Anu are swapping intimate immersive theatre for this year’s Macnas parade, An Truen: The Summoning of the Lost
When are university open days taking place?
Here are the key dates and what to expect at Ireland’s university open days
Unusually high night-time temperatures pushed Ireland’s summer to record high
Unusually high night-time temperatures saw June, July and August into the record books
Students’ complicated relationship with AI: ‘Avoiding using it probably put me at a bit of a disadvantage’
As students get stuck into the academic year, there are strong feelings about whether artificial intelligence should play a role in their education
Plan to increase on-campus housing for students is delayed again
Only project to be opened so far under funding from student plan is 116 beds at Maynooth University
Why are so many Irish people moving to Australia?
Large rise in people from US moving to Ireland in year to April has also drawn some attention
Climate scientists to receive €2.8m for flood future-proofing projects
UCC, Galway and Maynooth researchers to investigate modelling and resilience
Student accommodation: Irish on-campus costs revealed with most expensive room at €11,888 a year
Cheapest on-campus option at UCD is a shared bedroom in Village 1 at €5,722
Ireland’s only protected insect the marsh fritillary to star in new comic championing cause of insects
‘The bee gets the glory. The wasp gets the swat. I work so hard at pest control and pollination all day long and what thanks do I get?’
Climate Council warns against ‘dumb’ proposal to allow forestry on peatlands
Government policy needs further overhaul to address low planting rates
Student accommodation: Just 116 of 1,000 ‘emergency response’ beds will be delivered this year
Oireachtas committee hears of shortfall in €100m plan for accommodation with planning permission in place
Where will vital student housing come from?
Like Ireland’s wider housing crisis, there are too few student beds available with little sign of a solution
Trinity climbs to 75th in world university rankings
Ireland is most improved third-level system in Europe, global league table shows
Ireland set for extreme cold if Atlantic current collapses, new study suggests
Study looks at a future without the Amoc, which gives northwest Europe a benign climate
More than 160 academics call for ‘immediate halt’ to trade with Israel over conflict in Gaza
Signatories from 11 universities describe response to October 7th, 2023 attacks by Hamas as ‘a well-televised genocide’
Storm surges of up to five metres are looming for some of Ireland’s cities
Cork is ‘very, very vulnerable’, but Dublin, Galway, the east coast and areas along the Shannon are also at high risk
‘Don’t come to Ireland’: PhD researchers offer advice to US colleagues
Why would you do your PhD in Ireland when you can get decent pay, working conditions and dignity as a researcher in Germany or Sweden?
The future of Ireland depends on the progress of science
Ireland can be a world leader in scientific breakthrough when the right conditions are in place
Authors of paper claiming Irish judges use Wikipedia as a source for rulings dispute ‘flawed’ research criticisms
Authors say that study claiming to ‘debunk’ their research did not do the work necessary for that
‘There’s a war on academia’: US faces brain drain of its brightest and best teachers and students
Europe may benefit as Trump’s campaign against Ivy League colleges is causing academics to consider emigrating
Irish universities take millions of euro from big business. Are they too close for comfort?
Many higher education institutions now rely on industry-sponsored professorships, research centres and scholarships to plug State funding gaps
Remains of Roman gladiator attacked by a lion in combat shows ‘brutality of spectacle’, Irish scientists find
Remains found in York show brutality of spectacles staged far beyond the heart of the Roman empire
Plans for stronger ‘stop-and-search’ powers for gardaí despite department report casting doubt on effectiveness
Report commissioned by Department of Justice found such powers had ‘huge potential’ to create public resentment
Books in brief: William Alister Macdonald; A Visit from the Banshee; Waste Wars; The Carrion Crow; Vietdamned; Assembling
Reviews of new works from Iain Macdonald; Katie Mishler; Alexander Clapp; Heather Parry; Clive Webb; and Sharon Guard
Residents in ‘dangerous and unhealthy’ Dublin flats to meet council
Poor living conditions are affecting mental and physical health of those living at Cromcastle Court, survey finds
Spotlight on postgraduate options
Ireland’s third-level institutions offer a range of postgraduate degree options. Here we explore a selection of available courses.
‘My son is getting married in the summer, and the likelihood is that I’m going to be able to see that’
A stage 4 cancer diagnosis out of the blue left Bernard Mahon reeling: then he was told a drug that could treat it was not covered by his insurer
How robots are helping to set a sustainable course for Irish farming
Scientists at Maynooth University are applying a breadth of thinking and innovation with a view to putting farming on a surer footing
Climate experts warn Government against move to import LNG from US
Letter to Taoiseach follows his assertion Ireland ‘will have to have an LNG facility of some kind’
Maynooth land bank with development potential seeks €10m
The 97-acre holding occupies strategic location in Kildare next to M4 motorway and town centre
New phase of Leixlip development named after 18th-century mill founder from €460,000
Two- and three-bed houses available at second release at Harpur Lane
Prof Philip Nolan returns to research post at Maynooth University
Former Science Foundation Ireland head to investigate possible personalised treatments for sleep apnoea
Exploring the power of urban green spaces to connect
Research Lives: Dr Tadhg MacIntyre, Innovation Value Institute, Maynooth University
The first Leaving Cert 100 years ago: girls-only exams, botany tests and imperial measures
The biggest reforms to the exam in a century are due to roll out later this year. Are schools ready for the challenge?
Parents struggling to meet rising cost of student accommodation among complaints to Minister
Minister for Higher Education hears of burden of high cost of rental homes for students in letters of complaint at the start of the academic year
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Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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