Nat O'Connor
@natpolicy
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RT @SIPTU: All people working in Nursing Homes NEED a Union. That is why we are launching our first-ever National Nursing Home Workers’ S….
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RT @mcmnorris: Fascinating paper on the potential environmental benefits of peer to peer energy trading on https://….
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This brief proposes a phased roadmap to enable P2P energy trading in Ireland, examining the regulatory, technical, and community-based steps needed to support a more decentralised electricity system...
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RT @ucdgearyinst: 📰 New policy paper on “Moving to Self-Completion: Challenges and Opportunities for Survey Data C….
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RT @irishcongress: Last week, Ireland was fined €1.5m for delays implementing the EU’s Work Life Balance Directive. @drbambrick explains….
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RT @malonebarry: This isn't a thread about the genocide in Gaza. It's a thread about a likely genocide somewhere else: Ethiopia. But….
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RT @AlcoholIreland: AAI CEO @SheilaGilheany writes in today's @irishexaminer: Rowing back on its own democratically introduced labelling re….
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Rowing back on its own democratically introduced alcohol regulations shows a government in thrall to lobbyists with a clear agenda, writes Dr Sheila Gilheany, the CEO of Alcohol Action Ireland
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RT @sharonlambert0: "Greater collapse in longevity than recorded during Rwanda genocide. More child deaths than any other conflict, .Highe….
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Substantial and well-documented evidence indicates a catastrophic public health emergency in Gaza (appendix pp 1–5), marked by severe food insecurity and alarming levels of malnutrition-related...
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RT @mcmnorris: All of the arguments made in this excellent book about the problems created by policy makers' over reliance on consultants a….
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RT @ucdgearyinst: 📰 New policy brief on . “Towards Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Energy Trading: A Policy Pathway for Ireland’….
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RT @haaretzcom: For the first time, Israeli human rights groups say Israel is committing genocide in Gaza
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RT @btselem: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. It sounds inconceivable. But it’s the truth. Israel is taking deliberate, coordinated….
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RT @AlcoholIreland: Powerful read in today's @ITletters: 'Some thing in life are constant like sunrise or the harm caused by alcohol, while….
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RT @EU_Commission: Housing is a right, not a privilege. The EU is acting with its Affordable Housing Plan: tackling structural barriers, b….
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RT @ojblanchard1: Why on earth should the European union be willing to accept, as it seems ready to do, the 15% tariff? Are we really so w….
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The top five job skills are (happily) hard for AI to do.
The top 5 of the most important job skills as of 2025 are hard to measure. Maybe even impossible to measure? A recruiters gut feeling remains important I’d say. Source:
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The descendant of migrants, married to a first generation migrant, President of a country whose success was built by poor migrants, told Europe that migration is bad.
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RT @AlcoholIreland: Thoughtful article @IrishTimes .'There will always be an economic crisis or a powerful lobby that will be displeased.….
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RT @RnaudBertrand: This is fascinating: China is virtually unique in the Islamic world for having an established, centuries-old tradition o….
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The major risk to Ireland if the AMOC slows or stops. While there isn’t a scientific consensus yet, there is enough evidence that Ireland needs to take this seriously.
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RT @AlcoholIreland: To say that delaying alcohol health info labelling is a blow for public health is an understatement. It is a failure of….
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Alcohol Action Ireland press release, 23 July 2025 Alcohol Action Ireland (AAI), the national independent advocate to reduce alcohol harm, is disappointed with the news that the government has taken...
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