Why are there not more young people speaking out against lockdown? This is a question I asked myself recently, not because I am madly, rabidly against lockdown, but because I am more than a little concerned about the lack of say my generation has had in the past year about lockdown and what it means […]
Proposed housing debt would represent 1.5% of GDP.
An ESRI report published today examines the persistence of poverty among families with children. The report, The Dynamics of Child Poverty: Evidence from the Growing Up in Ireland Survey, is based on thousands of families in two cohorts of those with children aged 0 – 9 years in 1998 and 9 – 18 in 2008. […]
While the Climate Change Bill attracted most of the political attention this week – with just 12 TDs voting to oppose the legislation at second stage – of equal significance was a vote also taken on Wednesday evening on a motion regarding Project 2040 comprising of the National Development Plan and Framework. The private members […]
The findings form part of a new report titled “Poverty, Income Inequality and Living Standards in Ireland” which will be published in full this Friday.
The publication of an ESRI report on forecast population growths and consequent housing requirements was published on December 14. The report, Regional Demographics and Structural Housing Demand at County Level was compiled by TCD research professor Adele Bergin and Abian Garcia Rodriguez of the ESRI. As John McGuirk noted yesterday, all the forecasts contained are dependent on arbitrary […]
Extraordinary. Usually, in Ireland, if you say that one way to reduce the demand for housing is to lower immigration, you’ll be dismissed as a rabid racist who’s peddling fake news. But in the Irish Independent this morning, no less an authority than the ESRI is out warning that a reduction in immigration, due to […]
Each year after Wimbledon tennis tournament, a champion’s dinner takes place. Suffice to say, it’s a rather prestigious event and great fun if you just happen to have won Wimbledon. Novak Djokovic probably had a fantastic Champions dinner this year after his epic victory over Roger Federer. Boris Becker and Steffi Graf attended in 1989 […]