Workplace set-up makes it hard for men to play bigger role in family life

University group rejects claims it has been ‘silent’ on operating in non-democratic countries

President Michael D Higgins: shared some concern about the direction Irish universities were taking. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons /Irish Times

Former RCSI Bahraini chief Prof Tom Collins says other colleges need to face up to their ethical responsibilities

From left: the Chief Justice, Mrs Justice Susan Denham and baroness Nuala O’Loan, former police ombudsman of Northern Ireland, who were enrolled as members of the Royal Irish Academy yesterday, with RIA president Luke Drury. Photograph: David Sleator

Graduates risk becoming ‘alienated workers in a smart economy’, academy chief warns

Humanist Association of Ireland director of ceremonies Brian Whiteside said he had been informed by the General Registrar’s Office that it had concerns about people profiting from solemnising non-religious marriage ceremonies. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh

Couples seeking secular weddings face delays as celebrants await accreditation

Simon O’Brien, centre, chairman of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, at yesterday’s publication of it’s seventh annual report, with commission members Kieran Fitzgerald and Carmel Foley. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien

Gardaí obstructing release of documents on ‘erroneous’ grounds

James O’Mara organised the Irish government’s first bond-certificate drive in the US from 1919 to 1921. Over $5.1 million was raised in the campaign.

James O’Mara played a vital role in Ireland’s fight for independence by organising a bond drive in the United States that raised $(...)

Insolvency Service of Ireland director Lorcan O’Connor: “If we don’t get the practitioner bit right the system won’t work.” Photograph: Eric Luke

Success of scheme will depend on integrity of PIPs, says insolvency chief

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