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BudgetIreland’s Earth Overshoot Day 2026: Living Beyond Our Means
Ireland’s Earth Overshoot Day in 2026 falls on 14 April, a strikingly early point in the calendar that highlights the country’s high level of resource consumption. This date represents the moment when, if everyone on Earth lived like the average person in Ireland, humanity would have used up all the ecological resources the planet can regenerate in a year.
Earth Overshoot Day marks the point at which humanity’s demand for natural resources exceeds what the Earth can renew within that year. After this date, society operates in ecological deficit, drawing down natural capital and accumulating waste, especially carbon emissions. The calculation is based on the Ecological Footprint (human demand) versus…
Social Justice Matters Podcast - Prof. Charles M.A. Clark, St. John’s University on GDP, Wellbeing and Progress
World Happiness Report 2026
The Cash Transfer Experiment
Earth's climate increasingly out of balance
Social Justice Matters Podcast - Renting on the Island of Ireland with Stephen Morrison, Housing Rights and Gareth Redmond, Threshold
Stephen Morrison, Policy Lead with Housing Rights and Gareth Redmond, Research and Policy Officer with Threshold chat with Susanne Rogers about their joint all-island study of the private rental sector Renting on the Island of Ireland: An All-Island Survey of Private Rented Sector Tenants
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Thought for the day
“Too long a sacrifice
can make a stone of the heart”
Blanket solutions to increasing energy costs are not going to protect those most impacted by rising prices
Measuring Progress 2026 – Environment Index
Measuring Progress 2026 - Society Index
The Society Index is computed by combining 8 SDGs to capture the theme of social inclusion. The 8 SDGs that are included in the society index are: no poverty (SDG 1), zero hunger (SDG 2), good health and wellbeing (SDG 3), quality education (SDG 4), gender equality (SDG 5), reduced inequality (SDG 10), peace…
Older Workers in Ireland’s Labour Market
The Winter Skills Bulletin 2025 from Solas, the state agency responsible for Further Education and Training (FET) in Ireland, provides an in-depth labour market perspective on the role, participation, and skill characteristics of older workers in Ireland. For the purposes of this report, those are workers aged between…
Social Justice Matters Podcast - Ciáran Nugent on Labour market outcomes of third level graduates in high-income EU members
Rising poverty rates shows the need to urgently address income adequacy
POLICY AND DATA ANALYST – CONTRACT
Measuring Progress 2026 – Economy Index