Ian Robertson
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Most people want more, not fewer, restrictions, survey shows – ESRI expert
- Health
- October 5, 2020, 13:23
There is a “clear disjunction” between public debate objections to more Covid-19 restrictions and a majority who want stronger measures to suppress th(...)

Going for a walk today? These are the rules you need to follow
- Life & Style
- May 4, 2020, 05:00
The coronavirus pandemic has made previously benign activities – hugging a friend, having a bout of hayfever, popping into the supermarket for a 32 pa(...)

Plastic snugs and seats for all: The pub after the pandemic
- Food & Drink
- April 25, 2020, 06:00
Gearoid Whelan is up a ladder in his pub in Newcastle West, Co Limerick. He is getting ready for the reopening he still believes might happen in the s(...)

Coronavirus: Varadkar’s call-to-arms vests power in public action
- Politics
- March 18, 2020, 19:13
Think movies. Think Superman II or Independence Day. One social psychologist likened the collective spirit that Taoiseach Leo Varadkar tried to stir(...)

Two-thirds of people say Ireland is too politically correct
- Life & Style
- April 27, 2019, 06:00
The results of the 2019 Sign of the Times survey by Behaviour & Attitudes are published by The Irish Times today. The annual snapshot of Irish lif(...)

Self-driving cars: Is the autonomous dream slipping away from us?
- Motors
- March 13, 2019, 06:00
The coming of the robot car has been screamed loud from every headline and tech blog for the past decade, but increasingly car makers are being more c(...)

This means war: psychologists try to make sense of Brexit
- Politics
- December 10, 2018, 00:52
All versions of Brexit will leave the UK poorer. So said UK chancellor Philip Hammond as he attempted to sell what Theresa May sees as the least painf(...)

‘The doctors are the good guys and I am a hysterical mother’
- Health & Family
- November 20, 2018, 07:01
It was one week before Christmas when Olga Kennedy and her young son made the short drive from their town on the coast of Co Mayo to the local public (...)

UK business chiefs ‘deeply concerned’ time is running out for Brexit deal
- Economy
- June 24, 2018, 14:03
The UK’s five main business lobby groups told Theresa May they’re “deeply concerned” that time is running out for a Brexit deal that protects hundreds(...)

At a certain point in the first part of her two-part documentary on stress, Irish Times columnist Jennifer O’Connell meets a man in gloves in the midd(...)