To mark Science Week 2017, the Council are highlighting topical questions that its funded researchers are finding answers to by lighting up the well-known Dublin City Council Building on Dame Street with a series of... Read More
Article courtesy of the Irish Times Onora O’Neill: ‘We have some very skilful faking going on’ It’s getting harder to distinguish between truth and lies but ‘people can learn to make better judgements’ about who... Read More
Article courtesy of the Irish Times A question of trust in science How can policy-makers discern between genuine disagreement among experts and false uncertainties raised by commercial interests? Last week’s solar eclipse generated unprecedented public... Read More
Article courtesy of the Irish Times Patrick Honohan: How the banks can regain our trust Banks must be seen to be competent, reliable and acting with integrity Patrick Honohan (writing for the Irish Times) Just... Read More
“It takes a lifetime to know a field” — Patrick Kavanagh The social role of artists, now as in the past, entrusts them with tasks which involve a large measure of discretion. In other words,... Read More
Professor Onora O’Neill, keynote speaker at the forthcoming conference on Trust, discuses the low standard of public debate on both sides of the European Union decision and asks how this democratic deficit can be repaired.... Read More