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Written submission to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement.
(A. Hough, 2019-07-04)
This submission presents a summary of the research carried out for the report “Brexit, The Good Friday/Belfast Agreement and the Environment: Issues arising and possible solutions” which explored the impact of Brexit on ...
Opening statement to the Joint Committee on Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement.
(A. Hough, 2019-07-04)
I am a barrister and law lecturer, based in Athlone Institute of Technology. I was commissioned by
the Environmental Pillar and NIEL (Northern Ireland Environment Link) to produce an independent
report on the role of the ...
Six go cocooning.
(Accessible Active Ageing, 2020-05-25)
“Age is just a number” a familiar quote used by many including Joan Collins who suggested that; “age is just a number, unless you’re a good wine.” However, where the Corona virus is concerned the age 70 is when you must ...
Encouraging adoption and usage of eWOM: the factors contributing to employee brand advocacy.
(IAM, 2018-09)
Social Media platforms offer businesses new ways to strength customer relationships, create brand awareness and develop loyal customers. Electronic word of mouth (eWOM) initiatives such as visually enriched content makes ...
Culinary entrepreneurship in Ireland: back to the future
(AISSMS CHMCT, 2019-02)
The correlation between sustainable plastic adoption and business sustainability in the food packaging sector
(Technological University of the Shannon Midlands Midwest, 2022)
Ireland is producing the most plastic waste per person in Europe
(Statista Research Department, 2021). Approximately 40 % of all
plastic produced in Ireland goes to the food packaging sector
(EESC, 2020). In order to ...
Social media marketing adoption and usage within the Irish Dairy Sector.
(Academy of Marketing, 2016-07)
The agri-food sector in Ireland contributes €24 billion to the national economy, and export values for dairy ingredients and product has surpassed €3 billion. This figure represents a 15% growth on 2012 and indicates ...
The Boomerang study: increased hospital re-admission via the emergency department
(Irish Medical Organisation, 2021-01)
Aims This research was performed to assess if a reduced length of hospital stay was associated with in-creased re-attendances to, and re-admissions from, the Emergency Department (ED). Methods Inpatient discharge and ED ...
The current state of cooking in Ireland: the relationship between cooking skills and food choice.
(Athlone Institute of Technology, 2011-06)
This research investigated the attitudes of Irish people to food to ascertain whether the
acquisition of cooking skills influences food choice. Caraher et al. (1999) report on the
state of cooking in England noted that ...
Submission to the Public Consultation on General Scheme of the House and Planning and Development Bill 2019.
(A. Hough, 2020-01-27)
The Aarhus Convention (UNECE, 1998) arose out of Principle 10 (UNEP) of the Rio Declaration 1992 (UN,
1992), which embodies a key principle of international environmental law, that environmental decisions
are best handled ...