Ireland remains in the grip of a deepening housing and homelessness crisis. Despite significant policy attention, recent developments have only intensified pressures on affordability, security,…
Fossil fuel subsidies rose to €4.9 billion in 2023, according to newly released data from the Central Statistics Office (CSO), up from €4.7 billion in current prices in 2022 and €2.8 billion in…
Ireland’s Electoral Commission has released its first comprehensive Oversight Report on the Electoral Registers, highlighting major advancements and persistent challenges in…
Next month sees Ireland's Earth Overshoot Day for 2025 on May 17th. This is the day when, if everybody lived as we do in Ireland, we will have used all the biological resources…
Each year, the Government of Ireland publishes a wellbeing report,Understanding Life in Ireland,to assess the quality of life across economic, social, and environmental domains. This…
Fashion Revolution Week is an annual campaign that takes place every year in the week surrounding the 24th of April. This date is the anniversary of the Rana Plaza garment factory collapse in…
The evaluation of wellbeing as a measure of societal progress is gaining ground internationally, reflecting a positive shift away from the narrower focus of traditional economic measures like GDP…
The Western Development Commission (WDC) has released the Sustainable Mobility Index 2024, offering an in-depth evaluation of transport progress across 40 rural towns across Ireland's Western…
The European Union (EU) has taken a significant step in shaping the future of artificial intelligence (AI) with the introduction of the EU AI Act. First proposed in 2021, the world’s first…
Between €20bn-€30bn of current total taxation revenue is vulnerable to disappear rapidly in the context of international taxation and trade reforms and from any sudden economic downturn. This…
