Lunch Series: Celtic Conversations - Prof Robbie Gilligan

This regular lunch series will feature insights and an engaging presentation from a special guest speaker in our community, over a delicious catered set lunch and the opportunity to connect with fellow club members in a welcoming setting. Your ticket price includes presentation and insights from our guest speaker and a catered two course set lunch. This month we welcome Robbie Gilligan Foundation Professor of Social Work and Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin. Dark Clouds Ahead? Reflections on Major Policy Challenges facing Ireland While Ireland has done well on many fronts in recent years, navigating major challenges and achieving enviable economic performance, there are also dark clouds emerging. The presentation will argue that the political establishment faces a complex set of difficulties in highly contentious areas that are not going away. These include defence and neutrality policy, immigration, reunification, climate change, industrial policy, infrastructure delays, the rise of the right and more. I will argue that the political and policy leaders will have to raise their game in a serious way.