• Discipline, debt and coercive commodification: post-crisis neoliberalism and the welfare state in Ireland, the UK and the USA 

  Dukelow, Fiona; Kennett, Patricia (SAGE Publications Ltd, 2018)

  Ireland, the UK and the USA are heterogeneous examples of liberal worlds of welfare capitalism yet all three countries were deeply implicated in the 2008 global financial crisis. Examining these three countries together ...
• The symbolic representation of community in social isolation and loneliness among older people: Insights for intervention from a rural Irish case study. 

  O'Sullivan, Siobhán; Kenny, Lorna; O'Connell, Cathal; Bantry White, Eleanor (Wiley, 2018-03-26)

  Social isolation and loneliness are common experiences of ageing in rural communities. Policy responses and interventions for social isolation and loneliness in later life are shaped by sociocultural understandings of ...
• Children's views on school-age care: Child's play or childcare? 

  Horgan, Deirdre; O'Riordan, Jacqui; Martin, Shirley; O'Sullivan, Jane (Elsevier, 2018-06-01)

  School aged care (SAC)11 SAC is an abbreviation for school age care. is a much neglected policy and research area, with particularly limited literature on children's views and experiences of school aged care. This article ...
• Public service austerity broadcasts: framing the Euro debt crisis 

  Cullinane, Mark (University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, 2018)

  The reassertion of neoliberal public policy in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis was achieved in part through its sufficient recuperation as a hegemonic political and economic “imaginary." Focusing on a series ...
• Complicating host-newcomer dualisms: Irish return migrants as home-comers or newcomers? 

  Ní Laoire, Caitríona (Dublin City University, 2008)

  Popular discourses of contemporary Irish society are often structured on the basis of dualisms which oppose a perceived native/Irish/host community to an imagined foreign/non-Irish/newcomer community. This paper uses the ...

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