Integration is defined in current Irish policy as the ‘ability to participate to the extent that a person needs and wishes in all of the major components of society without having to relinquish…
The latest data from the CSO indicates that more than one third of people aged 20-69 do not have any pension support outside of State payments. With an increasing and ageing population, there are…
Mental health is critical to individual well-being, as well as for social and economic participation and it is an increasingly important concern in both Ireland and Northern Ireland. The pandemic…
In the week that marks International Women's Day, figures from Eurostat show that across the EU, in 2020, having children in a household negatively affects the rates of employment for women. For…
Yesterday, 8th March 2022, was International Women's Day. To mark the occasion, FEPS produced an interactive map of gender gaps in Europe - the EU Care Atlas. This interactive map shows the…
A CSO analysis of Remote Learning from the ‘Our Lives Online’ CSO Pulse Survey provides insights into online education experienced by survey respondents during the COVID-19 pandemic with…
The recent European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) Internet and Platform Work survey gathered information from 14 EU countries, one of which was Ireland, about the number of people who use the…
According to the March Economic Update from the Parliamentary Budget Office, Ireland's GDP experienced the highest average growth rate during the pandemic, and the third fastest growth in Q3 2021…
The latest Central Bank Economic Letter ‘Household Characteristics, Irish inflation and the cost of Living’ finds that lower income, rural and older households have faced a higher than average…
Fairtrade Fortnight 2022 highlights the growing challenges that climate change brings to farmers and workers in the communities that Fairtrade works with. For two weeks each year, hundreds of…
