# Poverty
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Last week
17th March 2024 - 23rd March 2024
THE MORNING LEAD
'Everyone knows drugs are sold and people are intimidated in areas affected by poverty'
The North Inner City Drugs and Alcohol Task Force has been reestablished amid a national conversation about our approach to drug use.
The task force has been set up at a time when service providers in Dublin are bracing themselves for an increase in opioid use
Areas in the north inner city have long been "traumatised" by poverty and addiction, Dr Austin O'Carroll told us
He said the availability of naloxone was vital in preventing deaths during a recent spike in overdoses in Dublin and Cork
Órla Ryan
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Mar 17th 2024, 12:05 AM
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Last year
2023
THE MORNING LEAD
Surge in demand for food banks in Northern Ireland outstripping supplies of food, charity warns
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Nov 23rd 2023, 12:05 AM
Voices
Extract: Life and death in a Dublin tenement - 'finding rent was a struggle'
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Jun 5th 2023, 7:00 AM
Voices
Extract: 'My teacher gave me power with that small bundle of towel, flannel, and pants'
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Jun 3rd 2023, 7:00 AM
CSO
Close to three in 10 people 'severely limited by a health problem' at risk of poverty
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Apr 24th 2023, 12:35 PM
Voices
Jenny Maguire: There is violence in poverty, discrimination and systems that don’t work
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Apr 7th 2023, 8:00 PM
All time
Voices
Analysis: Governments must act before energy prices break consumers' backs
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Updated
Sep 6th 2022, 9:30 AM
increase
Almost one in ten people struggled with food poverty in 2021, according to government
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Jul 18th 2022, 1:34 PM
Cost of Living
Children falling into poverty more quickly than rest of population, says charity
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Jul 13th 2022, 6:54 AM
Housing Crisis
Future retirees in Ireland to face 'substantially' lower levels of home ownership, research warns
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Jul 6th 2022, 6:00 AM
Housing
One fifth of people in Ireland living below poverty line when housing costs are included
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May 30th 2022, 6:00 AM
food poverty
Conservative MP claims people use food banks because they cannot budget or cook properly
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May 11th 2022, 4:34 PM
Central Statistics Office
Over half of households in receipt of housing assistance at risk of poverty in 2020
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Jan 10th 2022, 6:00 AM
Voices
Opinion: Rising energy costs this winter are now a major concern for low-income households
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Oct 24th 2021, 8:30 AM
Voices
Opinion: Today's UN food summit in New York cannot become just another talking shop
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Sep 23rd 2021, 7:00 AM
Poverty
Ireland pledges €1 million to help 'poorest and most vulnerable' Lebanon households
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Jul 6th 2021, 6:05 PM
Voices
Brendan Ogle: It's time to stop gaslighting the public over income inequality
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May 24th 2021, 7:00 AM
purple house
Cancer patients are at increasing risk of poverty due to Covid-19, charity warns
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Nov 16th 2020, 1:29 PM
Voices
To tackle income poverty and inequality, we need to fully understand the complexities of the data
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Nov 1st 2020, 6:45 AM
disposable income
CSO: 8.1% of children in Ireland live in consistent poverty
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Oct 27th 2020, 9:26 PM
Lebanon
Explainer: How Beirut explosions came at 'worst time possible' for a country in a 'dire situation'
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Aug 5th 2020, 5:00 PM
community response
Demand for food and mental health support surges due to Covid-19
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Jun 11th 2020, 2:42 PM
LIFE IN IRELAND
The average household disposable income is now €51,458, according to the CSO
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Nov 28th 2019, 3:28 PM
Poverty
Life expectancy in Ireland's most deprived area 7 years lower than most affluent area
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Nov 27th 2019, 8:10 PM
welfare cuts
'Unprecedented' rise in infant mortality in England linked to poverty
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Oct 4th 2019, 6:30 AM
Automation
Poll: Should every citizen in Ireland get €200 a week regardless of income?
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Jul 25th 2019, 9:30 AM
period poverty
'Girls are forced to have sex in exchange for sanitary pads or 50 cents'
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Jul 23rd 2019, 9:00 PM
Voices
Opinion: Let's drop the narrative of the undeserving poor and other myths that dehumanise people
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Mar 14th 2019, 7:00 AM
Voices
Opinion: Lone parents who work get up very early in the morning - but Varadkar doesn't represent us
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Mar 9th 2019, 6:30 AM
family poverty
Poverty has doubled among working parents over five-year period, SVP report finds
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Mar 5th 2019, 7:59 AM
Deprivation
Nearly 16% of Irish households at risk of poverty last year while disposable income increased
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Dec 17th 2018, 8:25 PM
Charity
Irish charity founder in Kenya works 6 days a week and pays himself €300 a month
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Aug 26th 2018, 9:00 PM
Voices
Poverty: 'There is a dominant narrative that seeks to blame people for their circumstances'
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Jun 12th 2018, 7:00 AM
Voices
Opinion: 'In modern Ireland, you are invisible without money'
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May 25th 2018, 7:00 AM
MABS
Poorer households turning to pre-pay heating - but that means they pay a 'poverty premium'
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Feb 16th 2018, 8:36 AM
deprived
'Significant gap': Lone parents and those with disabilities among the most deprived in Ireland
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Jan 31st 2018, 6:10 AM