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Statement on Engineers Ireland Annual Report 2024
Conscientious Observers are making this statement as it appears that governance culture in Engineers Ireland has not changed, since we made public our observations of non-compliance in 2023. We can substantiate this opinion based on sample observations from the recently published Engineers Ireland Annual Report 2024. Furthermore, it is important to publicise that all of Read more
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When Reality Clashes with Perception – Engineers Ireland encounters the Truth
Founded in 1835 as the Civil Engineers Society of Ireland, in 1877 it received a Royal Charter after being renamed ‘The Institution of Civil Engineers of Ireland’. The Institution of Civil Engineers of Ireland (Charter Amendment) Act, 1969 established a new professional body, ‘The Institution of Engineers of Ireland’, as the sole body licensed to award Read more
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Public Interest no longer served – Engineers Ireland removes right to Appeal
– covert actions to distance itself further from Industry Regulation “Even trust”, according to Judt[1], “the faith we have in our fellow citizens, corresponds negatively with differences in income: between 1983 and 2001, mistrustfulness increased markedly in the US and UK and Ireland – three countries in which the dogma of unregulated individual self-interest was Read more
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Who holds Engineers Ireland to account if its Bye-laws are repeatedly ignored?
“Competence is almost always an ingredient in trust”, Solomon[1] tells us, “but competence by itself is different from trust. Trust can be earned, but to link trust so closely to trustworthiness, knowledge, and verification is to remove all significance from the act of trusting. Calculative, deterrent, and strategic trust are fraudulent versions of trust with Read more
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Engineers Ireland and the ‘Art of Equivocation’
Students of Macbeth[1] will be familiar with Shakespeare’s infamous development of the art of equivocation; “the practice of deliberately deceiving a listener without explicitly lying, either by using ambiguously misleading language or by withholding crucial information.” Perhaps, the fruits of Shakespeare’s works have had a greater impact on the learned than could ever have been Read more
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Presidential Invitation to Fellow – Has it become just another Club?
It is around this time of year that the presidential invitation(s) to Fellow of Engineers Ireland are announced by the outgoing President. An event that has somehow over the past decade, been overshadowed by what would appear to be a bout of self-indulgence. While it may be difficult to see the immediate merits of awarding Read more
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