The importance of a satisfactory supply of nutrient elements and lime, in soils, is now universally recognised as one of the major factors in crop production. When a crop, either tillage or pasture, is harvested from a ...

This paper charts the incidence of fuel poverty in Ireland through the period 1987-2015 under alternative household survey-based metrics. The fuel poor population is decomposed by socioeconomic group to better understand ...

HealthStat is a tool for measuring the performance of the Irish public health service. It consists of a data collection process, the production of performance statistics in graphical dashboard format and a monthly ...

The COVID-19 pandemic represents a complex challenge to policymakers from both a public health and economic perspective. It has caused a severe economic shock to both the Irish and global economy with shutdown measures ...

This paper examines the use of hill land in Ulster at the present time, with particular emphasis on the improvements being undertaken to reduce the gap between present and potential productivity and with consideration of ...

This year, 1991, was a Census year and marked one hundred and fifty years since the "Great Population Census" of 1841 was taken. I thought an appropriate way to remember that historic event would be to look briefly at ...

In selecting as the title of my paper the one word "Housing" I have done so with the object of conveying at the outset that my purpose is to bring before the Society for its consideration in a general way the subject ...

There is evidence to suggest that housing over recent decades has not received the attention it deserves from policy makers. Policy can at best be described as ad hoc and reactive, based on a general assumption that ...

This paper argues that Ireland?s housing problems stem in part from a particular philosophical orientation which supports the ?commodification? of housing and gives strong encouragement to private market provision of housing ...