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Without reform, Ireland was exposed in the event of a global downturn, it said. The Brexit effect Although Irish life satisfaction scores remain above the OECD average, recent research by the Irish Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) found that Irish consumers are deeply worried.
Japan, Portugal, Ireland and Australia are some of the countries offering rural relocation incentives. In 2020, an Italian village with just 115 residents offered relocation grants of up to €8,000 a year for three years. COVID-19 and remote working has made rural relocation more possible – and desirable – for some.
Ireland is among the least forested nations in the EU, with government estimates showing that in 2014, forest cover was around 11%, compared with the EU average of almost 40%. The motivation to reforest isn’t just about mitigating climate change, it also wants to produce more commercial timber, provide biomass for energy production and ...
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He hopes the changes made within the town will “challenge businesses, organizations and communities across Ireland to think what they can do to become autism-friendly”. In order to achieve the designation, Clonakilty had to go through a strict accreditation process, which involved training 25% of businesses and voluntary organizations, as ...
Ireland plans to create 400 remote working hubs as part of a five-year rural development policy. This will be achieved by converting vacant buildings and the potential use of pubs as workspaces during quiet afternoons in rural towns.
7 Ireland experienced three monetary regimes, two of them fixed (a parity link with sterling until 1979, and the euro period since 1999) and one period of floating during EMU. 8 For instance, Geary (1976) studies annual data for the period 1953-1974, and Geary and Jones (1975) study annual data for the period 1953-1972.
The UK and Ireland are home to temperate rainforests - but they are threatened by grazing livestock, particularly deer and sheep. To protect them, we must minimize further deforestation, as well as restore what has been lost, says a researcher. Eating less meat and more plants will also help, as livestock grazing leads to deforestation.
It’s been a tough few years for Ireland. In less than a decade, it went from being one of Europe’s success stories – before the financial crisis, experts like Thomas Friedman implored other countries to follow its lead – to a bailout.
The brake gives politicians at the Northern Ireland Assembly at Stormont, Belfast the ability to block new EU legislation from applying in Northern Ireland if they feel it would negatively affect their constituents. If the EU brake is activated by 30 politicians from at least two parties, new EU rules will not be implemented.