• How a moral panic influenced the world’s first blanket ban on new psychoactive substances 

  Windle, James; Murphy, Paul (Taylor & Francis, 2021-04-05)

  Ireland passed the world’s first blanket ban on new psychoactive substance in 2010. This article traces the historical processes culminating in the Criminal Justice (Psychoactive Substances) Act (2010) through a systematic ...
• Long conflict and how it ends: Protestants and Catholics in Europe and Ireland 

  Ruane, Joseph (Routledge - Taylor & Francis Group, 2021-02-10)

  Ireland's Catholic-Protestant conflict rests on multiple, overlapping differences: religious, ethnic, colonial, political. To better understand it, and in particular its religious aspect, I trace Europe's long Catholic-Protestant ...
• Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi, Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory 

  Condon, Roderick (Irish Journal of Sociology, 2020-06-11)
• The coronavirus crisis and the legitimation crisis of neoliberalism 

  Condon, Roderick (Taylor & Francis Group, 2020-11-05)

  This paper considers the societal consequences of the coronavirus crisis through the lens of critical social theory, advancing a social-theoretical perspective as its main contribution. The central argument is that the ...
• Why drug dealing and drug use will increase after Covid-19 

  Windle, James; Drew, Sinéad; Leonard, James (Raidió Teilifís Éireann, 2020-09-15)

  Ireland is likely to enter a severe economic recession. A relatively small body of international research shows that drug consumption and dealing have previously increased during recessions and economic downturns, although ...

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