Babylon Radio’s weekly column is here to provide you with a quick insight into some of the world’s most pressing issues. Mass demonstrations, natural disasters and a string of arrests. The past week has conjured up a variety of notable…
6 reasons to study English in Ireland We know it is difficult to decide to leave your country and go abroad to make a new life and learn a new language. Several questions come into our heads before coming, hesitations,…
It doesn’t take a long walk through Dublin’s city centre to find somebody without a roof over their head and a bed to sleep in. There are 6,525 people “officially homeless” in Ireland, a figure referring solely to those people…
Transdev warns of possible lay offs or short term working if dispute continues. An Industrial relations and human resources expert is predicting the complete shut down of the Luas service and says that a Task Force could help end the…
Regulator says strong growth in domestic demand will push GDP growth up to 5.1% this year. The Central Bank has revised its growth forecast upwards for the Irish economy for 2016, and is now predicting growth of 5.1 per…
Virginija Petrauskaite, a Spanish au pair, obtained almost €10,000 from the Workplace Relation Commission because her host family didn’t respect the employment law. “I want to say to all au pairs: you deserve to be respected, because you have…
For The United Nations’ International Women’s Day today, we have a chart which shows where women have the best chances of being treated equally at work. It combines information on education, labour-force participation, salaries, child-care rates, maternity benefits, business-school students…
They started in 2004, three years before the global crisis. Even though the economic situation in many European countries was better back then, the organisation called Social Entrepreneurs Ireland (SEI) had a lot to do anyway. Now, in the times…
Eurozone unemployment is lowest since August 2011. More people have jobs now, more spend money, more jobs should be created in the coming months. The best situation in Europe is now in Germany (4.3%) and the worst, but still better…
