Economic & Social Research Institute

As we surface from the first wave of the pandemic, we can see in front of us a great recession. It is, however, not a crisis in which the State is hel(...)

More than one-fifth of children could be left living in poverty in Ireland if the economy fails to recover swiftly from the Covid-19 pandemic, a study(...)

Dannielle Downes has thought of almost everything ahead of the reopening of Foxy Chopper hair salon on Gladstone Street in Waterford. A dedicated hand(...)

We are in a recession, all right, but nothing like we have ever seen before. Leo Varadkar was right when he said during the week that this would be th(...)

Economy-wide CO2 emissions are expected to decrease by 9.5 per cent this year arising from the coronavirus pandemic, according to analysis by the Econ(...)

Publications from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) and the Revenue Commissioners give new information on what people are earning and where the(...)

In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the need for research has perhaps never been so evident. Faced with an unknown enemy, we are relying on rese(...)

The last four months have seen the greatest upheaval for Irish consumers in modern times. Almost overnight everything changed in the middle of March a(...)

MEDICALLY, THEY WERE SPARED THE WORST EFFECTS OF COVID-19. ECONOMICALLY AND PSYCHOLOGICALLY, IRELAND’S YOUNG WILL SUFFER HUGE CONSEQUENCES FROM COR(...)

School closures have had a much more severe impact on students’ learning and motivation in disadvantaged secondary schools, a new ESRI study indicates(...)