Catch up with Faculty staff in recent media. Providing knowledge and understanding through their writing, speaking, research, and expert comment.
Listings are in staff alphabetical order. Any School items appear at the end of the listings. Please click on the relevant link(s) in each section to access the media item.
Professor Massimo Faggioli, School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies, appeared in multiple media items providing expert comment:
- Vox on 27 March 2026: The religious right is breaking up over Israel and Iran.
- The Washington Post on 30 March 2026: Outrage grows over Israeli restrictions to Jerusalem sites during Holy Week. (Subscriber content)
- The Times (UK) on 02 April 2026: Pope to antagonise conservative American Catholics in Easter address. (Subscriber content)
Professor Daniel Geary, School of Histories and Humanities, provides expert comment in an opinion piece writing that the ‘US president is proof of the adage that when you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail’ in the Irish Times on 30 March 2026: If you want to know why Trump keeps going to war, look at the size of his military budget. (Subscriber content)
Professor Ronan Lyons, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy, provides expert comment on the housing market in an article on Breakingnews.ie on 26 March 2026: Housing market could be ‘cooling’ as prices rise by 3.7% in a year.
Dr Barra Roantree, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy, outlines his view on the new investment scheme being developed by the Government on RTÉ Radio 1 Morning Ireland on 30 March 2026: Dept. of Finance plan new stock market investment scheme for savers.
Professor Ian Robertson, Fellow Emeritus, School of Psychology, provides expert comment in an article on confidence saying ‘it’s important to note that confidence in longer term financial decision-making can be built over time with the right information, support, and tools’ in Breakingnews.ie on 29 March 2026: Men twice as confident as women in asking for a pay rise, survey shows.
Dr Davide Romelli, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy, gives expert analysis on central bank governance in this piece in the Financial Times on 26 March 2026: Central bank governance reform for the lols. (Subscriber content)
Professor Taha Yasseri, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy, was a guest on a podcast providing expert comment on how to help the AI revolution more human-centric. Workday Future of Work Podcast on 26 March 2026: The Human-Centric AI Revolution: 4 Lessons from Professor Taha Yasseri.