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14
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By Patrick McKay
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Blog, WEXD News

Irish Research Council celebrates Science Week 2017

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...
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30
Aug
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By Patrick McKay
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Blog, Blog: Trust

‘Trust’ Speaker Preview: Onora O’Neill

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...
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30
Aug
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By Patrick McKay
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‘Trust’ Speaker Preview: Cormac Ó Raifeartaigh

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...
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30
Aug
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By Patrick McKay
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‘Trust’ Speaker Preview: Patrick Honohan

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...
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7
Jun
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By Patrick McKay
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Blog

Artists as Experts

“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,...
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23
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By Patrick McKay
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Blog

Professor Onora O’Neill discusses current European Union issues

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....
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Funding

Irish Research Council: New Horizons Strand Two Interdisciplinary Award. November 2015 - September 2017

Irish Research Council

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