# Poverty
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Last month
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
17 Mar
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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
23 Nov 2023
8.9k
13
Voices
Extract: Life and death in a Dublin tenement - 'finding rent was a struggle'
Tim Murtagh
5 Jun 2023
16.2k
9
Voices
Extract: 'My teacher gave me power with that small bundle of towel, flannel, and pants'
Dr Katriona O'Sullivan
3 Jun 2023
39.3k
10
CSO
Close to three in 10 people 'severely limited by a health problem' at risk of poverty
24 Apr 2023
6.1k
4
Voices
Jenny Maguire: There is violence in poverty, discrimination and systems that don’t work
Jenny Maguire
7 Apr 2023
8.8k
3
All time
Voices
Dr Laura Bambrick: Why pay child benefit to wealthy parents?
Dr Laura Bambrick
7 Nov 2022
27.7k
45
Voices
Analysis: Governments must act before energy prices break consumers' backs
Victor Duggan
Updated
6 Sep 2022
21.8k
34
increase
Almost one in ten people struggled with food poverty in 2021, according to government
18 Jul 2022
5.8k
5
Cost of Living
Children falling into poverty more quickly than rest of population, says charity
13 Jul 2022
9.7k
17
Housing Crisis
Future retirees in Ireland to face 'substantially' lower levels of home ownership, research warns
6 Jul 2022
24.0k
27
Housing
One fifth of people in Ireland living below poverty line when housing costs are included
30 May 2022
17.8k
15
food poverty
Conservative MP claims people use food banks because they cannot budget or cook properly
11 May 2022
22.3k
19
Central Statistics Office
Over half of households in receipt of housing assistance at risk of poverty in 2020
10 Jan 2022
15.0k
23
Voices
Opinion: Rising energy costs this winter are now a major concern for low-income households
Issy Petrie
24 Oct 2021
18.4k
31
Voices
Opinion: Today's UN food summit in New York cannot become just another talking shop
Caoimhe de Barra
23 Sep 2021
4.7k
1
Poverty
Ireland pledges €1 million to help 'poorest and most vulnerable' Lebanon households
6 Jul 2021
11.0k
23
Voices
Brendan Ogle: It's time to stop gaslighting the public over income inequality
Brendan Ogle
24 May 2021
37.3k
39
purple house
Cancer patients are at increasing risk of poverty due to Covid-19, charity warns
16 Nov 2020
13.6k
21
Voices
To tackle income poverty and inequality, we need to fully understand the complexities of the data
Seamus Coffey
1 Nov 2020
16.8k
33
Lebanon
Explainer: How Beirut explosions came at 'worst time possible' for a country in a 'dire situation'
5 Aug 2020
18.4k
5
community response
Demand for food and mental health support surges due to Covid-19
11 Jun 2020
7.1k
0
LIFE IN IRELAND
The average household disposable income is now €51,458, according to the CSO
28 Nov 2019
39.2k
61
Poverty
Life expectancy in Ireland's most deprived area 7 years lower than most affluent area
27 Nov 2019
23.2k
16
welfare cuts
'Unprecedented' rise in infant mortality in England linked to poverty
4 Oct 2019
69.0k
8
Automation
Poll: Should every citizen in Ireland get €200 a week regardless of income?
25 Jul 2019
55.8k
109
period poverty
'Girls are forced to have sex in exchange for sanitary pads or 50 cents'
23 Jul 2019
78.5k
17
Voices
Opinion: Let's drop the narrative of the undeserving poor and other myths that dehumanise people
Fionnuala Kennedy
14 Mar 2019
12.9k
26
Voices
Opinion: Lone parents who work get up very early in the morning - but Varadkar doesn't represent us
Louise Bayliss
9 Mar 2019
25.4k
50
family poverty
Poverty has doubled among working parents over five-year period, SVP report finds
5 Mar 2019
14.5k
63
Deprivation
Nearly 16% of Irish households at risk of poverty last year while disposable income increased
17 Dec 2018
13.6k
31
Charity
Irish charity founder in Kenya works 6 days a week and pays himself €300 a month
26 Aug 2018
48.4k
45
Voices
Poverty: 'There is a dominant narrative that seeks to blame people for their circumstances'
Dr Tricia Keilthy
12 Jun 2018
24.5k
141
Voices
Opinion: 'In modern Ireland, you are invisible without money'
Audry Deane
25 May 2018
22.4k
44
MABS
Poorer households turning to pre-pay heating - but that means they pay a 'poverty premium'
16 Feb 2018
34.9k
94
deprived
'Significant gap': Lone parents and those with disabilities among the most deprived in Ireland
31 Jan 2018
17.7k
41