CPAS: Rethinking Retirement: The Employment (Contractual Retirement Ages) Act 2025

The Employment (Contractual Retirement Ages) Act 2025 marks a major shift in Irish employment law, bridging the gap between traditional retirement contracts and the State pension age. Stephen Lawless, CPAS, explores how this landmark legislation impacts workforce planning, challenges employers to justify mandatory retirement, and creates critical knock-on effects for pension and group protection schemes.

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Ireland’s Concrete Revolution: TCD and Sisk team unveil clinker-free future

Ireland’s journey toward a sustainable built environment just took a massive, clinker-free step forward. After attending a landmark demonstration at Sisk’s Cherry Orchard site, ROBBIE COUSINS writes about how a collaboration between Trinity College Dublin and industry leaders is moving geopolymer technology from lab to site – with the potential to slash carbon emissions by 70% and, with a circular economy approach, transform the nation’s biomass waste into the high-performance foundation of a greener future.

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