The Department of Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht has just released the 'PPN Snapshot of the year 2024'.
2024 was an important year for the PPNs as it marked the…
Homelessness remains one of the most urgent and visible consequences of Ireland’s housing crisis. Families, children, young people and single adults continue to enter homelessness at record…
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…
The rapid increase in prices that emerged from mid-2021, whilst slowing, continues to persist. This poses particular challenges for low-income households. The cost of core essentials has risen…
“A home is where people build and plan their lives, raise their families, and connect with their communities.” With this line, the Government introduces Delivering Homes, Building Communities…
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…
