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BudgetSocial Justice Matters Podcast - Launch of Poverty Focus 2025
In Poverty Focus we examine the nature and experiences of poverty in Ireland. Drawing on the available statistical evidence, we outline how poverty is measured, the value of the poverty line and consider many of the groups in our society who are most exposed to living life below the poverty line. This year we pay particular attention to impact of cost of living pressures.
This episode is a chance to listen back to the webinar launch of the publication which is available HERE.
More than 807,800 forced to go without in 2025
Despite some improvements, deep inequalities in wellbeing persist
PPN Snapshot of the year 2024
Homelessness and the new Housing Plan: Encouraging Developments
Social Justice Matters Podcast - Aoife Ní Lochlain on Aviation and Fairness in Climate Policy: The Case for Making Flying Pay
Our 2024 Annual Social Policy Conference was on the theme of ' Managing Change to Build a Just Society'. Ireland is going through several major transitions, each of which is only going to deepen with time. While much is changing, many of the problems facing our society are long-standing: inequality, poverty, and under-…
Thought for the day
Count your blessings and not another’s
Cost of living increases continue to have a substantial impact on low income households and older people - Poverty Focus 2025
Does the New Housing Plan Match the Scale of the Challenge?
Delivering Homes, Building Communities 2025–2030: What's in the Plan?
Ireland’s new housing plan, Delivering Homes, Building Communities 2025–2030, is the Government’s latest attempt to respond to the severe pressures facing the housing system. Homelessness, affordability, and supply shortages are issues that continue to have a profound impact on quality of life in Ireland, despite being…
Social Justice Matters Podcast - Social Justice Ireland on COP 30
The 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or Conference of the Parties (COP) of the UNFCCC is the upcoming 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference, to be held in Belém, Brazil, from 10 to 21 November 2025.
Our research and policy analyst Michelle Murphy briefly sets out what COP 30 is all about and…
Who Owns the Planet? Rethinking Capital to Tackle Climate Change
Future Forty - a fiscal and economic outlook to 2065
Overlapping Hardships: Poverty and Climate Hazards
Social Justice Matters Podcast - Steven O'Connell from the Football Cooperative - A community football health intervention for Men