The ESRI’s withdrawal of a report this week has seen a similar scenario of critics lining up. But with Frances Ruane as director, the institute has a better reputation than many others in Ireland, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

“Everybody knows that the dice are loaded,

Social Protection Minister Joan Burton said she found it hard to see how the 44% of young parents on the dole were better off than if they were at work.

The ESRI thinktank may have pulled its latest working paper on the benefits of not working but its main conclusions are not new.

The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) has this evening distanced itself from the controversial 'The Cost of Working in Ireland' report.

The co-author of a controversial Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) report which suggested that 44% of working families would be better off financially on the dole has said he is surprised it has been withdrawn.

A supposedly sensational piece of research published by the ESRI has been withdrawn after doubts were raised about the accuracy of its analysis.

FINANCE Minister Brian Lenihan should meet with energy company Siemens to discuss its offer to lend the state money to install domestic water meters, the Environment Minister has said.

WASTE collection operators have called for an immediate stoppage to all works on the controversial incinerator at Poolbeg in Dublin after the Economic and Social Research Institute admitted its recentreport on waste management policy contained some errors.

THIS country faces a huge challenge, if it is to meet the targeted carbon emission reduction, according to Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources Eamon Ryan.

IRELAND’S greenhouse gas emissions are “insignificant” and government efforts to combat the problem will not matter on a global scale, a leading climate change expert has said.