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Children’s Rights Alliance, ISPCC and other leading children’s organisations welcome defeat of amendment to raise the Digital Age of Consent to 16

Alison McGuireMay 2, 2018

The Children’s Rights Alliance and the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (ISPCC), together with Spunout.ie, CyberSafeIreland and leading e...

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NUI Galway MARIO Project Among Top 25 Projects in European Commission Studies

Alison McGuireApril 10, 2018

A research project led by NUI Galway has established that companion robots can have a positive impact on older people living with dementia. Such is the impact o...

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Child Protection is best served by setting the Age of Digital Consent at 13

JohnMarch 2, 2018

By Grainia Long, CEO, ISPCC; Ian Power, Executive Director, SpunOut.ie and Tanya Ward, Chief Executive, Children's Rights Alliance Three organisations working to protect children and young people online have today called on all Oireachtas memb...

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When retirement gets tough: why we struggled to leave the business world

Amy MurphyFebruary 17, 2018

Nice guest piece from husband and wife team Ian and Vicki, who were once senior partners in an international law firm until they decided they wanted a new and c...

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DkIT leads the way in EU research for its innovations in smarter living for older people

JohnNovember 7, 2017

NetwellCASALA, the Research Centre for Ageing at Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT), has been named as a top-four competitor in the upcoming EU Innovation R...

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Out with the Old, In with the New

Theodora LauAugust 16, 2017

Trading in The headline flashed across Financial Times recently: “Lego removes CEO after 8 months for younger replacement.” Jorgen Vig Knudstorp, Lego’s chairman who served as CEO for 12 years until last December, told the Financial Times Padda’s sh...

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Irish digital age of consent should it be 16 or 13?

Oscar MichelJuly 20, 2017

By Oscar Michel, Masters in Journalism, DCU During a 24-hour Twitter Poll, a majority of participants believed that Ireland should set its digital age of con...

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Living to 100 years and beyond

Theodora LauJune 26, 2017

What if we live to be 100 I had an interesting conversation with my Lyft driver the other week about my work on innovating for the older adults. Being a freela...

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Irish research programme to investigate if new social media platform can address challenges and opportunities for those aged 50+

JohnMay 17, 2017

Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre, IBM Ireland and ISAX (Ireland Smart Ageing Exchange) have announced a two-year research programme which could result in a new social media platform which would allow older people to offer and receive voluntee...

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