I find it very disheartening that RTE and others just fluff up a press release without actually checking what SMEs think about this news. Amazon are no friends of small business
RTE news : Amazon announces plan to launch Irish website in 2025
rte.ie/news/business/2024/05…
Looking forward #AfricaDay2023Maynooth
We @MEND_CC are preparing prizes along with @MU_MAP & @MUBookshop donated to winners of the many fun games to be played at the festivities this evening.
Join the Parade begins from the Square, Maynooth at 4pm to Maynooth Community College.
Congrats to Prof Mary P Murphy our Head of Dept whose new book Creating an Ecosocial Welfare Future is ranked in the top 10 in the specialist non-fiction chart.
Buy a copy @MUBookshop & online: shop.universitybooks.ie/Book…
Watch a short video about the book: youtu.be/qN4UW-ftnVw
Next up in our @ArtsInCoKildare Writer-in-Residence series, @caittalbot hosts Claire Hennessy @chennessybooks and Carlo Gébler in what will be a brilliant event! ✨As with all of these conversations, this one is free and open to the public!
We are extremely concerned that the direction being taken by @Education_Ire and @NormaFoleyTD1 with the Free School Book Scheme ignores both the concerns and the recommendations of key stakeholders, and poses a significant risk that children will not have schoolbooks in time. 🧵
Primary schools have been “left in the dark” about the implementation of a free book scheme to be rolled out in September, and there is “a significant risk” students will be without books at the start of the next academic year, it has been claimed.
irishtimes.com/ireland/educa…
Instead of meaningfully engaging with the people who can deliver a brilliant scheme, the department are just trying to pass a hot potato. Real supply chain issues have been completely ignored & school principals are going to be left to pick up the pieces.
irishtimes.com/ireland/educa…
“If we had taught and learned about #pandemics, then society in general would have been better prepared for what was going to happen”
Dr Ida Milne @milnem on t/ need for pandemics & natural #disasters in #history#education
New #OHTE report on this topic
bit.ly/3YfDK6m
We are thrilled to be hosting Donal Ryan and Brian Langan next Thurs. 9 March at 2pm as part of @ArtsInCoKildare Writer-in-Residence @Scarlett_for_ya's programme of spring events. This event is free and open to the public! @writing_mu
A great night last night hosting the launch of Gaffs by @RoryHearne. There was such a great buzz in the shop with great input from the @MaynoothUni audience. This books makes a complex subject so accessible. It is no surprise it has been shortlisted for an @AnPostIBAS award
President of @MaynoothUni Professor Eeva Leinonen joins our colleague @RoryHearne @MUAppSocSc at the launch of his book 'GAFFS' earlier this evening in @MUbookshop. Published by @HarperCollins the book explores the current housing crisis and what we can do about it.
A discovery today: @MUBookshop have now started selling comic books.
And it was a pleasure meeting @darcyireland this morning on campus (even though I shouldn't even be there).
This has been a long time in the planning but I am thrilled to have scholar and activist Catherine Corless @MaynoothUni next week. If you can't make it in person it is being streamed online thanks to @MU__SSI. Catherine will sign copies of her book after thanks to @MaynoothBooks
Our @MUAppSocSc colleague @Roryhearne launched his book “GAFFS“ last night in @HodgesFiggis. Published by @HarperCollins the book details how Ireland’s housing policy has locked an entire generation out of the housing market & what we should do about it. @maynoothuni@niamhatmu
From tomorrow we’ll be talking about little other than #IrishBookWeek for a while… I hope you have all been thinking about your Irish book-reading and Irish bookshop-visiting plans!