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COVID-19 is a significant risk to progress on educational disadvantage

Thursday, 9 April 2020

Irish Education System and COVID-19

Education systems across the world are being impacted by COVID-19. Almost 900 million children and young people are affected by…

International Traveller and Roma Day 2020 - An Interview with Bernard Joyce

Wednesday, 8 April 2020

Today is International Traveller and Roma Day, and just over 3 years since the recognition of Travellers as a distinct ethnic group.

In episode 8 of our interview series, Colette Bennett,…

Need for personal debt taskforce as thousands lose their jobs in the wake of COVID-19

Tuesday, 7 April 2020

Defining the Problem

There is no official definition of over-indebtedness in Ireland. In his 2009 study, Stamp provided an expansive definition with reference to a 2008…

COVID-19 highlights issue of Job Precarity

Monday, 6 April 2020

An estimated 492,000 workers in Ireland may lose thier jobs due to the coronavirus, COVID-19. The sectors most affected by these job losses are those in which it is difficult to impossible to…

COVID-19 and the Irish Healthcare System

Friday, 3 April 2020

Current pandemic exacerbating existing problems in Ireland’s health care system

COVID-19 is placing unprecedented pressure on our healthcare system. The emergency…

COVID-19 Impact on Live Register and the need to secure Decent Work

Thursday, 2 April 2020

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) today published the Live Register and Monthly Unemployment Estimates showing a combined total of 513,350 for those on the Live Register and those in receipt of…

Economic lessons from the last recession

Wednesday, 1 April 2020

Ireland and much of the rest of the world is facing into a major economic recession, perhaps even a depression, as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Stringent but essential measures being…

Time to rewrite the European Fiscal Rules

Monday, 30 March 2020

Learn lessons from crash – need to act now

European fiscal rules should accommodate and indeed encourage, when appropriate, investment as a basic tool of economic policy…

Inadequate housing means c.14,700 households unable to social distance - #MoveTheVulnerableOut

Friday, 27 March 2020

Almost since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the advice has been to stay at home. Social distancing can help flatten the curve and save lives. On the 24th March, the Government…

The correct economic response to COVID-19

Thursday, 26 March 2020

To say the least, we are living in strange and unprecedented times. The coronavirus pandemic is arguably the greatest crisis the world has faced in living memory. It has implications for several…