As I start my 3rd year as EU Commissioner for Equality, I will continue working to bring down barriers & building the society of tomorrow, where all the talents are fostered & harvested. Let us embrace a #UnionOfEquality identity that connects us all through our common humanity.

Piece on getting boys to read in today's Irish Times: irishtimes.com/culture/books/… Matthew Parkinson-Bennett 🏝📚 Ger Siggins Elaina Ryan

Nice article by Robert Shortt of RTÉ on a paper from Central Bank of Ireland on the importance of words in communicating monetary policy. With inflation rising, we need to know why the European Central Bank are sticking to low interest rates. The ABCs of the ECB rte.ie/news/business/… via RTÉ

Thanks to Declan Varley Galway Advertiser for publishing this piece, an important part of monetary policy strategy is that we know why the European Central Bank are doing what they are doing. Should they increase interest rates?

A huge privilege to be appointed inaugural President of Atlantic Technological University. I look forward to working with the entire university community to serve the needs of the region. Thanks to all who have worked so hard to bring us to this point - go raibh maith agaibh!

A new @GMITOfficial AI staff 1 page guide to help reinforce the requirement for academic integrity & how to encourage students to practice academic integrity. Check out digitaled.ie/library/academ… -thanks LTA committee Academic Council & Orla Skehill @TLOGMIT & Fiona O'Riordan, Ed.D., SFHEA for AI hub👏

Very proud of our Finance and Economics students who have secured a place in the Goodbody AM Student Managed Fund Final Competition and will be competing at Goodbody AM Dublin office on March 31st, on the eve of our transmission to #AtlanticTechnologicalUniversity #ATU

Huge congrats to student led @GmitSmf securing second place in Goodbody AM Student Managed Fund National Final. CEO William Figueras secured the best overall speaker. Very proud of you all. Wonderful to mark end of @GMITOfficial and new beginnings #ATU

A momentous day as we come together to form our Atlantic Technological University #AtlanticTU. Huge opportunity for #ATU to be a catalyst for social, economic and cultural development in our region and proud to be a part of it.

Galway Advertiser highlights student success at national Student Managed Fund (SMF) competition. John Boylan of Goodbody AM: 'To finish in second-place speaks volumes of the university, who faced stiff competition against experienced colleges in the SMF' rb.gy/njlpqi

Thinking of all our grieving Atlantic Technological University Sligo community during this very difficult week 🙏🏻

Delighted to present my research with Supriya Kapoor on SME access to finance from European Central Bank monetary policy Irish Economic Association annual conference in Economics Department UL Irish Society for Women in Economics (ISWE) ATU Galway City @GMIT_Research @TLOATUGalway @ATULib_gal_mayo

Delighted to present my paper with Supriya Kapoor on small and medium firm access to finance in peripheral European countries from European Central Bank monetary policy at the 6th Global Conference on Economic Geography Global Conf. on Economic Geography - Dublin 2022

Thanks so much to Cian Gaffney, analyst at Kansas City Fed and GMIT BBS Finance Economics graduate, for sharing his role and path to the US Federal Reserve with our Finance Economics students! Atlantic Technological University @ATUTLCGalway ATU Galway Careers Office

Delighted to get this research published, it finds leveraged firms are more credit constrained in stressed countries compared to SMEs in non-stressed countries, even in the presence of unconventional monetary policy, this matters because SMEs are the backbone of our economies.

Ondanks stimulerend beleid van de ECB, blijkt uit onderzoek van Marie Finnegan, Senior Lecturer in Economics, ATU en Supriya Kapoor dat sterk gefinancierde MKB-bedrijven meer kredietbeperkingen ondervinden in landen als Griekenland en Italië. #Economie mejudice.nl/artikelen/deta…

Great to have our President of ATU Orla Flynn pop in today to meet our fourth year ATU Galway City finance and economics students performing their roleplay of the recent Federal Reserve meeting on monetary policy Saoirse William Figueras

A very big thanks to Dr Thomas Conefrey, Head of Function in the Irish Economic Analysis (IEA) Division Central Bank of Ireland, who talked to our business students today on the latest economic and market developments in the Irish economy. ATU Galway City ATU Galway-Mayo School of Business

Marie Finnegan, senior lecturer in economics at #ATU, talks about today's European Central Bank's interest rate decision in today's Irish Independent. ✍️See article here: independent.ie/business/irish… @ECB Irish Independent Central Bank of Ireland @mariemfinnegan

Delighted to share this research with Dr Lucía Morales with our community in PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science ONE, an SJR Q1 journal. It enhances researchers' toolkits, enabling more rigorous studies on SMEs' access to bank finance using the EU/ECB SAFE dataset European Central Bank