Professor Ronan Lyons kept a close eye on the housing and rental market. Dr Barra Roantree took his research straight to the Oireachtas. A Trinity economics student was picked for the OECD's Young Associates Programme, one of the most competitive placements going. And the Student Economic Review, one of the oldest undergraduate economics journals in the world, turned forty.

As Professor Paul O'Grady notes in his welcome, Ireland's Presidency of the Council of the EU puts the School in an unusually strong position to shape the conversation on Europe's future, and economics has plenty to say.

There's more inside. Read on for news from across the School.

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