Health is of central importance to well-being. The standard and reach of health services have improved in Ireland over recent decades as indeed have health outcomes. However, not all of this progress has been experienced equally by all sections of the population. In particular, there are significant...

SUMMARY This inBrief provides a broad overview of changes to annual wages at different stages in the worklife cycle in Ireland between 2008 and 2016. The period under consideration includes the peak of the Celtic Tiger, the financial crisis, the subsequent recession and four years of strong...

In the context of significant shortages in accommodation and substantial increases in housing costs in the Republic of Ireland, there has been renewed focus on social housing in Ireland. This conversation has, increasingly, turned towards the construction of social units along lines observed...

In this paper, we present an overview of medium-term developments in the Republic of Ireland labour market. We describe how conditions in the Irish labour market had still not fully recovered in 2017, from the impact of the 2007-08 financial crisis using Central Statistics Office (CSO) data for a...

This paper aims to assess the sufficiency and affordability of housing in Northern Ireland and the implications which housing costs have for living standards. Looking at supply and demand there does not appear to be any misallocation between the regions of Northern Ireland in terms of overall...