The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has published Ireland’s first Climate Change Assessment Report. The Assessment provides a picture of where Ireland is in its response the climate…
Ireland ranks 8th out of 14 comparable EU countries in this year’s Sustainable Progress Index. The index comprises three dimensions: economy, society and environment. Ireland is ranked 9th out…
According to the latest Central Bank figures for Q3 2023, 708,810 private residential mortgage accounts for principal dwellings are held in the Republic of Ireland, valued at just over €100…
How can we measure the value of the services that nature provides us, many of which we take for granted? Water, air, soil, trees, peatland, woodlands are among the services that nature provides…
‘Environmental Indicators Ireland 2023’ published by the CSO gives a snapshot of how Ireland is -performing over 10 themes including Greenhouse Gases, Air, Water, Land Use, Energy and…
Children are one of the most vulnerable groups in any society. The care and support we provide for them will play a large part in determining the adults they will become. The 2023 report from the…
In 2022 an estimated 40 million people, 9.3% of Europeans, were unable to keep their homes adequately warm, compared to 6.9% in 2021. The European Commission recently published a series of…
Our 2023 Annual Social Policy Conference was on the theme of 'A Just Transition'. The fundamental principle of a Just Transition is to leave no people, communities, economic sectors or regions…
Locked Out of the Market is a quarterly report published by the Simon Communities of Ireland based on a snapshot survey conducted over three consecutive days. This latest version published in…
A recent report from the CSO, 'Household Digital Consumer Behaviour 2023' found that using email is still the most popular internet activity with 93 per cent of internet users surveyed in 2023…