Issues
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ESRI suggests change to poverty metric
The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) suggests altering the current measure of poverty in the State and introducing a…
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Pre-Budget 2026: Balancing resilience and risk
Budget 2026 is expected to deliver a package shaped by strong domestic growth but clouded by global uncertainty, with trade…
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Labour housing spokesperson Conor Sheehan TD: ‘Private rental market is fundamentally broken’
Policy can be reactive and proactive and successive governments’ policy on the regulation of the private rental market has been…
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Pearse Doherty TD: ‘Ireland playing a key role in facilitating Israel to raise money for genocide’
For the first time, in early June 2025, Micheál Martin and Simon Harris called what is happening in Gaza a…
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First Home Scheme extended
The First Home Scheme (FHS) has been extended to June 2027 with an additional allocation of €30 million to resource…
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Decarbonising our electricity system
In an exclusive interview with eolas Magazine, ESB Chief Executive Paddy Hayes underscores ESB’s commitment to its net zero by…
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Report: Electricity suppliers ‘must help consumers save money’
The Climate Change Advisory Council has said that the Government and the regulator “must ensure that electricity suppliers offer customers…
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Ongoing areas of cross-border health cooperation
The re-emergence of structured cross-border health cooperation on the island of Ireland has gained renewed momentum after new funding announcements…
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‘Substantial expansion’ of acute hospital capacity required
Ireland’s public acute hospitals will require a net increase of between 4,400 and 6,800 inpatient beds by 2040, according to…
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CRU Chair Jim Gannon: Guiding the energy transition
eolas Magazine sits down with Jim Gannon, Chair of the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU), to discuss the organisation’s…
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