Northern Ireland Education: Time to end 'wild west' teaching recruitment in NI says union

Irish Standard Time — Friday, August 04, 2023

A union has called on the Equality Commission to investigate the “wild west” employment practices of teacher recruitment in Northern Ireland.

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Suicide cannot be reduced to an economic equation

Irish Standard Time — Friday, July 20, 2012

Suicide cannot be reduced to an economic equation : Earlier this week, the president of the Irish Association of Suicidology (IAS), Fine Gael TD Dan Neville, described the just-released suicide figures for 2011 as “frightening but not surprising” given the impact the economy was having on mental health ...

Ireland : our Highlights of the week

Irish Standard Time — Saturday, February 09, 2019

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Boris Johnson's Northern Ireland plan: dubious and counter-productive

Irish Standard Time — Thursday, June 16, 2022

But his decision to breach international law — proposing legislation to gut the Northern Ireland protocol of the UK's post-Brexit treaty with the ... View article...

Irish Standard Time — Monday, December 17, 2018

The EU is not for turning on Brexit as Westminster sinks into cataclysm' - For many firms, exports to the UK - the world's sixth largest economy - is a vital lifeline. No wonder, from an Irish perspective, there was a gnawing fear ...

Brexit hasn't gone away, you know

Irish Standard Time — Friday, May 24, 2019

Brexit hasn't gone away, you know - If Brexit goes badly, that will all come to a shuddering halt ... The nightmare that a hard Brexit would create for Ireland had been avoided and we could ...

Catholic bishops in Ireland ask parishes to conserve 30 percent of property for pollinators ...

Irish Standard Time — Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Irish Catholic bishops have asked parishes across Ireland to set aside 30 percent of their grounds for pollinators and biodiversity by 2030 so the ... View article...

Public's attitude to depression needs to change

Irish Standard Time — Thursday, October 11, 2012

Public's attitude to depression needs to change : ... colleagues that they suffered from depression? Thankfully, David Walliams did not manage to take his own life, but many people do: there were 552 deaths by suicide in Ireland in 2009. How high must suicide figures go before depression is destigmatised?

Outgoing German ambassador optimistic Ireland will join global tax deal

Irish Standard Time — Tuesday, July 20, 2021

In the post-Brexit era, ambassador Deike Potzel said that Irish-German political and trade relations are at an all-time high, building on Ireland's ... View article...

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