We face multiple challenges in Ireland and globally from a range of issues not limited to inequality, economic development, public health and ecological breakdown. These issues require responses on the part of government at many levels. To ensure these responses are at the sufficient scale and...

Submission by NERI Co-director, Paul Mac Flynn regarding the report of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality. The NERI welcomes the report of the Citizen’s Assembly on Gender Equality and the recommendations that it has issued. Several of the recommendations encompass policy areas where the NERI...

In this week's NERI blog, NERI intern Aoife Murphy examines factors which may impede equitable transitions towards environmental sustainability in the Agricultural sector on the island of Ireland. Despite its disproportionate contribution to overall emissions, the Irish agricultural sector, both...

Blog by Ciarán Nugent, NERI economist on recruitment problems in hospitality being overblown. Between July and September 2021 (when hospitality was still under some restrictions) Labour Force Survey data have employment numbers in the sector as (all but) fully recovered relative to the same quarter...