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,…
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,…
The Climate Inequality Report 2025 from the World Inequality Lab argues that the climate crisis and wealth (and ownership) inequality are intimately connected and that effective climate policy…
'Future Forty - A Fiscal and Economic Outlook to 2065' has been published by the Department of Finance and it examines the long-term impacts of global megatrends and other structural shifts and…
The recent Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2025 Overlapping Hardships: Poverty and Climate Hazards from the United Nations Development Programme and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development…
Steven O’Connell is the founder of Football Cooperative, an award winning social enterprise that places recreational football as a hook to bring men together to get active delivering positive…
Published on the 16 October 2025, a new research report from Eurofound, 'Social cohesion and inclusive participation in a polarised Europe', offers a comprehensive 20-year lens on trends of…
The Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, published annually by the U.S. Department of State’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, evaluates how successful governments are meeting…
Libraries provide an important social and educational role in Ireland, with over 53.6 million visits between 2018 and mid 2023 by 765,000 registered members, 76 million items issued across 330…
A new report by Eurofound examines wealth inequalities across EU Member States using data collected from the European Central Bank’s Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS),…