December 2009
| Welcome to the Irish Journal of Public Policy | Séamus Ó Tuama |
| Foreword | Garret FitzGerald |
| Policy and public: Letting the people in | Lord Norton of Louth |
| An aging population – have we got an Oral Health Policy? | Noel Woods, Helen Whelton, Tara Crowley, Ian Stephenson and Mary Ormbsy |
| Challenges for Regulatory Impact Analysis | Tom Ferris |
| Public Policy in an emerging state: The Irish Free State 1922-25 | Donal Corcoran |
| The effects of Environmental Policy Integration on wind energy policy- a comparative case study of Ireland and Denmark | Colm Diamond |
| Should Human Rights be an Issue for International Economic Institutions? | Joop de Kort |
| Is Ireland really a republic? | Ivana Bacik |
| Press Regulation in Ireland | John Horgan |
| Do we need a new design for democracy? | Frank Litton |
| Lest we forget: The Ryan Report and what then | Anne O'Reilly |
| Review of Judging Lemass, The measure of the man | Tom O Connor |
| Irish Social Policy; A critical introduction by Mairéad Considine and Fiona Dukelow | Joseph Moran |
| Review of Conor Cruise O'Brien - Violent Notions by Diarmuid Whelan | Anthony O'Halloran |
| Development of Ireland’s Drug Strategy, 2000 to 2007. Health Research Board | Monica O'Mullane |