One Monday this week, 2nd October 2023, 3,039 people from 131 countries became Irish citizens after making the declaration of fidelity to the Irish Nation and loyalty to the State. Ensuring that…
New figures on caring in Ireland from Census 2022 data were published by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) earlier this week, on Thursday 28th September. Census 2022 "sought to identify people who…
Census 2016 reports that 342,000 people in the work force were non-Irish nationals, with the four leading origins being the UK, Poland, Lithuania and Romania. Forty-two percent of all non-Irish…
Earlier this week, on Wednesday 13th September 2023, the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) as Ireland’s National Rapporteur on Human Trafficking published their second …
The establishment of a Child Poverty and Well-being Programme Office in the Department of the Taoiseach was a key step towards delivering on the Taoiseach’s commitment "to make Ireland the best…
Child poverty does not exist in a vacuum. Children live in families, households, and societies. They are impacted by the physical environment in which they live. While the establishment of a Child…
A robust social dialogue process is urgently required to deal with the many multi-faceted and integrated challenges that Ireland faces. These challenges will not be resolved overnight, but real…
The Community and Voluntary sector proved to be a vital part of the national response at local level to the pandemic, the recent increases in the cost of basic goods and services and in assisting new…
In 2022, the number of women killed in violent circumstances was the highest in 10 years. Between Q3 2021 and Q3 2022, 83 per cent of all recorded victims of sexual offences knew the reported suspect…
As of early June 2023, there were 21,270 people living in Direct Provision and emergency international protection accommodation spread across 205 locations, 2 of which are temporary tented sites. In…
