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Access to Justice under Irish Environmental Impact Assessment Law: Case C-427/07 Commission v Ireland European Court of Justice (Second Chamber), 16 July 2009 [2010] Env LR 8
Kennedy, Rónán (SAGE Publications, 2010-05)Ireland was recently found not to have fully implemented Directive 85/337 on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment (the EIA Directive) and Directive 2003/35 (the Århus ... -
Access to justice under the Århus Convention and Irish judicial review
Kennedy, Rónán (SAGE Publications, 2008)The case of Sweetman v An Bord Pleanála, decided in the High Court of Ireland in April 2007, raises a number of interesting issues regarding the scope of Directive 2003/35/EC on public participation in respect of the ... -
An analysis of local public finances and the 2014 local government reforms
Turley, Gerard; McNena, Stephen (Economic and Social Studies, 2016)In this paper we set out to analyse changes in local government expenditures and income in the context of central government austerity measures, local government budgetary adjustments and, most especially, the 2014 local ... -
An Analysis of Model-Driven Web Engineering Methodologies
Lang, Michael (2012)In the late 1990's there was substantial activity within the 'Web engineering' research community and a multitude of new Web approaches were proposed. However, numerous studies have revealed major gaps in these approaches, ... -
An analysis of the 2016 American presidential nominees' tweets: A magical realism perspective
Clohessy, Trevor; Callinan, Colin; Acton, Thomas; Whelan, Eoin; Scott, Murray (NUI Galway, 2017)Twitter is the latest social networking tool said to be reshaping political presidential campaigns. In order to maximize the influence of their messages to voters, presidential nominees often use various techniques to ... -
Ante-nuptial Agreements and "Proper Provision": An Irish Response to Radmacher v Granatino
Buckley, Lucy-Ann (Round Hall Sweet & Maxwell, 2011-04)Irish law makes little reference to the principle of self-determination in relation to financial provision on matrimonial breakdown. The Family Law Act 1995 and the Family Law (Divorce) Act 1996 place some emphasis on ... -
Assessing the pay communication, knowledge and satisfaction of exempt employees at Medtronic Vascular
Maloney, Maureen; Morris, David (NUI Galway, 2009-04-01)Medtronic Vascular is a US-based multinational that develops technologies to provide lifelong solutions for people with chronic diseases. Over 2,000 people are employed in Ireland with most of the company’s employees ... -
Audit quality threatening behaviours: perceptions of auditees
Sweeney, Breda; Pierce, B. (Irish Accounting and Finance Association, 2015)Previous research has found that audit staff engage in audit quality threatening behaviours (QTB). Auditee personnel interact with audit staff during fieldwork, and their perceptions of QTB are reported in this paper. ... -
Benchmarking the financial performance of local councils in Ireland
Turley, Gerard; Robbins, Geraldine; McNena, Stephen (De Gruyter Open, 2016-04)It was over a quarter of a century ago that information from the financial statements was used to benchmark the efficiency and effectiveness of local government in the US. With the global adoption of New Public Management ... -
The Brand Inside: The Factors of Failure and Success in Internal Branding - Special Issue on Irish Perspectives on Marketing Relationships and Networks
Mahnert, Kai F.; Torres, Ann M. (2007)Internal branding seeks to achieve consistency with the external brand and encourage brand commitment and the possibility of brand championship among employees. It is the concerted, inter-departmental and multi-directional ... -
Brand tribalism and self-expressive brands: social influences and brand outcomes
Ruane, Lorna; Wallace, Elaine (Emerald, 2015)Purpose - This study aims to examine the relationship between social influence and consumers' self-expression through brands. It considers susceptibility to interpersonal influence and social network influence on self-expressive ... -
A case study investigation of the efforts of a subsidiary of a US-based multinational corporation to promote pension savings
Maloney, Maureen; Morris, David (2010-09-01)The pension situation faced by all Irish workers is complex and uncertain. Further, it is possible that the state will be unable to maintain the current level of pension provision in real terms. This is based on demographic ... -
Charging for public participation: fees for submissions or observations on Environmental Impact Assessment
Kennedy, Rónán (SAGE Publications, 2007)In case C-216/05, Commission v Ireland, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that Irish legislation which required the payment of a fee by those making submissions regarding an environmental impact assessment (EIA) ... -
Climate change law and policy after Copenhagen
Kennedy, Rónán (Round Hall, 2010)This article deals with recent developments in climate change law and policy. It examines the likely future developments in international negotiations for a successor to the Kyoto Protocol; briefly summarises climate ... -
Club 2.0: Investigating the social media marketing strategies of nightclubs in the midlands and west of Ireland
Nevin, Frieda; Torres, Ann M. (Irish Academy of Management, 2012-10)Social media is already an established feature in the marketing strategies of large global brands. This study explores how the social media success stories of large global brands may be emulated on a smaller scale by ... -
Cluster Versus Firm Specific Factors in the Development of Dynamic Capabilities in the Pharmaceutical Industry in Ireland: A Study of Responses to Changes in Environmental Protection Regulations
Hilliard, Rachel M.; Jacobson, D. (2011)Cluster versus firm specific-factors in the development of dynamic capabilities in the pharmaceutical industry in Ireland: a study of responses to changes in environmental protection regulations, Regional Studies. This ... -
A comparative examination of healthcare use related to hearing impairment in Europe
O'Neill, Ciaran; Xiao, Mimi (2016)Impaired health resulting from whatever source presents challenges to individuals and societies. These challenges can be presented in terms of an economic burden - costs and dis-utilities - that arise from the experience ... -
A Comparison of Wine Purchasing Behaviors in Ireland and California When the Celtic Tiger Roared, American Association of Wine Economics,
McGarry-Wolf, Marianne; Higgins, Lindsey; Torres, Ann M. (2012)In 2006 the Irish wine market was growing rapidly along with its Celtic Tiger economy (Euromonitor, 2008). Total wine sales in Ireland more than quadrupled in the seventeen-year span from 1990 to 2007 (Geraghty and Torres, ... -
Confirming a taxonomy of decision constructs in business-to-consumer commercial transactions
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Cost Estimation in Agile Software Development Projects
Lang, Michael; Keaveney, Siobhán; Conboy, Kieran (2011)Numerous studies over the years have shown that information systems development (ISD) projects often run over budget or fail entirely. Such failures are not restricted to certain industry sectors or project types; rather ...