Unemployment, Vacancies, and "Full Employment" in the Irish Manufacturing Sector. Quarterly Economic Commentary, June 1977

The most frequently used indicator of Irish labour market conditions is the unemployment rate. The target of "full employment" has usually been defined by choosing the unemployment rate believed to correspond to an acceptable level of " involuntary " unemployment. This rate was set at 2 per cent in the NIEC 1967 report, and at 4 per cent in the NESC 1975 report. Neither of these studies contained an analysis of the implications of the target unemployment rate for the rate of wage inflation. On the basis of the evidence for the years 1953-71, Slattery (1976/77) suggested that an unemployment rate of 3 per cent is consistent with a 4.5 per cent rate of price inflation

Women and Employment in Ireland: Results of a National Survey. General Research Series Paper No. 69, April 1973

THIS Report makes available the results of a national survey on several topics relating to the employment of women in the Republic of Ireland. The survey was conducted between March and May 197I. The costs of the fieldwork and data processing were met by a grant from the Department of Labour. The project was carried out under the general guidance of a committee which included members of the Departments of Labour and Finance. As emphasised, however, in the Acknowledgements, responsibility for the views expressed rests solely with the authors of the Report

Alphabetical Voting: A Study of the 1973 General Election in the Republic of Ireland. General Research Series Paper No. 71, June 1973

IT is popularly believed that the requirement in Irish elections that candidates’ names be printed in alphabetical order on the ballot paper results in a bias against those whose surnames begin with the later letters of the alphabet. One journalist recently went so far as to assert that "the spelling of a candidate’s name has in many cases been almost as important as his politics in ensuring success at the polls;’? On the other hand, the importance and even the existence of such a bias has been questioned. The issue was debated at some length in D~iil t~ireann in connection’ with the Electoral Bill, 1962, when an Amendment to randomise the ballot paper was withdrawn after a discussion in the course of which little empirical evidence was advanced.~ One authority on electoral systems concluded that "in the Irish constituencies the initial letter of a candidate’s name has . . . only a trifling effect on his chance of election".3 It is also notable that political analysts very rarely mention alphabetical bias in any detailed discussion of an election. The purpose of the present study is to assess whether an important alphabetical bias can be shown to exist and, if so, to explore the exact mechanisms by which it operates

Regional Science Association Irish Branch Annual Conference "Regional Planning Policy - A Time for Re Appraisal". ESRI Memorandum Series No. 127 1978

In preparing this addreas I have availed of the opportunity to draw together some simple figures on long term trends in the distribution of the population of Ireland by region and type of settlement. Much of the material contained in this paper is very straight-forward and calls for little commentary. Its value lies, I hope, in making available a broad perspective on past developments against which our successes and failures in regional planning should be evaluated. Towards the end of my paper I shall make some comment on this topic, and in conclusion I shall present some tentative data on the implications of past trends and policies for the future

The Structure of Unemployment in Ireland, 1954-1972. General Research Series Paper No. 77, October 1974

THERE is a considerable body of opinion behind the view that Irish .][unemployment, even when agricultural unemi~loyment and underemployment are left out of account, is above all a "structural" problem. If this diagnosis is valid, it follows that the problem will not be readily cured by conventional fiscal and monetary policy, but must be approached primarily by specific manpower policies aimed at reducing regional, occupational, and industrial imbalances between the demand and supply of labour. If, on the other hand, the structuralist viewpoint is not accepted, then these manpower policies are assigned a secondary, although not necessarily unimportant, role, and their main function is to facilitate the operation of an expansionary fiscal and monetary policy and to reduce the inflationary pressures inherent in such a strategy

A Study of Labour Force Flows 1961-80. Quarterly Economic Commentary Special Article, May 1982

A Study of Labour Force Flows

Safeguarding amateur athletes: an examination of player welfare among senior inter-county Gaelic players.

This research finds that GAA commitments influence education, career and other aspects of senior inter-county players' lives. The study was commissioned by the GAA and the GPA. Gaelic players are highly educated, with 61 per cent having at least a university degree compared to 35 per cent of the general male population of the same age. However, the study finds that players appear to be basing many decisions related to their education and their professional career around playing Gaelic games. The report is the second ESRI study to examine how the commitment levels of the amateur sports affect players' lives. This report also examines a range of other issues relevant to players' lives, including alcohol consumption, supplement use, their views on player welfare supports and their experiences within the inter-county set-up

Justice and conservation: The need to incorporate recognition

In light of the Aichi target to manage protected areas equitably by 2020, we ask how the conservation sector should define justice. We focus in particular on ‘recognition’, because it is the least well understood aspect of environmental justice, and yet highly relevant to conservation because of its concern with respect for local knowledge and cultures. In order to explore the meaning of recognition in the conservation context, we take four main steps. First, we identify four components of recognition to serve as our analytical framework: subjects of justice, the harms that constitute injustice, the mechanisms that produce injustices, and the responses to alleviate these. Secondly, we apply this framework to explore four traditions of thinking about recognition: Hegelian inter-subjectivity, critical theory, southern decolonial theory, and the capabilities approach. Thirdly, we provide three case studies of conservation conflicts highlighting how different theoretical perspectives are illustrated in the claims and practices of real world conservation struggles. Fourthly, we finish the paper by drawing out some key differences between traditions of thinking, but also important areas of convergence. The convergences provide a basis for concluding that conservation should look beyond a distributive model of justice to incorporate concerns for social recognition, including careful attention to ways to pursue equality of status for local conservation stakeholders. This will require reflection on working practices and looking at forms of intercultural engagement that, for example, respect alternative ways of relating to nature and biodiversity

A scalable, fully automated process for construction of sequence-ready human exome targeted capture libraries

Genome targeting methods enable cost-effective capture of specific subsets of the genome for sequencing. We present here an automated, highly scalable method for carrying out the Solution Hybrid Selection capture approach that provides a dramatic increase in scale and throughput of sequence-ready libraries produced. Significant process improvements and a series of in-process quality control checkpoints are also added. These process improvements can also be used in a manual version of the protocol

Calcitonin gene-related peptide-1 (CGRP-1) is a potent regulator of glycogen metabolism in rat skeletal muscle

AbstractWe investigated the effects of CGRP on glucose metabolism in intact rat skeletal muscle preparations that are largely composed of either type I (soleus) or II fibres (e.g. extensor digitorum longus (EDL) or epitrochlearis muscles). CGRP-1 inhibited insulin-stimulated glycogen synthesis in both soleus and EDL muscle preparations. Rat CGRP-1 was a potent stimulator of glycogenolysis only in muscles composed of type II fibres, which depend on high rates of glycogenolysis to produce high power outputs. These results may provide the basis for understanding how CGRP regulate glycogenolysis in type II fibres in vivo