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25th April 2006

Ireland’s Energy Policy: 2006

Irish Energy Policy: Reason v Emotion

‘Opposition to nuclear energy is based on irrational fear fed by Hollywood-style fiction, the Green lobbies and the media. These fears are unjustified, and nuclear energy from its start in 1952 has proved to … Continue reading

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12th September 2005

Waterford University

University vital for Southeast

The 900 job losses announced in a single week by four different multinationals highlight the significant change taking place in the Irish economy.  High costs and the maze of employment regulation in Ireland are stimulating multinationals … Continue reading

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12th September 2005

Waterford & its University: 2005

Waterford is Ireland’s only Gateway city without a university. The proportion of the population in the South East region with degrees is 25 percent lower than even in the West, the traditional focus of government regional attention. Because of its … Continue reading

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10th August 2005

Ireland’s Fragile Economic Success

Ireland’s indigenous exports have grown negligibly over the past decade.  In contrast industrial exports of US firms in Ireland have boomed and now represent some 80 percent of the total. Were US firms to drift abroad during the coming years … Continue reading

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8th June 2005

Fees & University Funding

In 1996, the same year that China announced it was introducing university fees, Ireland informed its electorate that fees would be abolished.  The decision was taken quickly because of the political exigencies of the day. There was no consultation: the … Continue reading

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2nd February 2005

The Future of Ireland

The Last Lecture Series

UCC

2 February 2005           

Science, Technology and the Future of Ireland

Edward M Walsh

In a lifetime Ireland has transformed itself from being one of the poorest countries in Europe to one of the most affluent. … Continue reading

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1st February 2005

My Favourite Share

Article prepared by Edward M Walsh at the request of Senator Shane Ross for MY FAVOURITE SHARE.  Sunday Independent. 

I was at school in 1955 when I bought my first shares: 100 Lobitos Oil at 3/6. The stock market and … Continue reading

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18th June 2004

UCC Conferring 2004

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21st May 2004

Privatising Universities

TRANSCRIPT

Station:                NEWSTALK 106

Programme:        DAVID McWILLIAMS

Date:                    21 May 04

Presenter:  Let us stick with the idea of perceived elitism in education because it’s once again come under the radar stream with the publications in the … Continue reading

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7th January 2004

University Challenge. Wall Street Journal

LONDON LETTER

Let the Market In

By EDWARD M. WALSH

DUBLIN — At the start of the decade, Europe set out, in its ambitious Lisbon strategy, to build “the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world” by 2010. … Continue reading

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