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The ESRI study found that retrofitting homes to a standard needed to support a heat pump was ‘by far’ the greatest driver of cost.
Ecotherapy – therapeutic intervention through nature – is known to boost people’s mood.
Health experts from three universities have said that the cost of living crisis, will disproportionately affect the health of the most vulnerable people in Ireland.
Invasive species, such as sika deer, are “evolutionary naive” to native predators.
Experts think there is growing evidence that regular bad dreams could be an early warning sign for developing the condition.
The counties most confident of this transition are Dublin (55%) and Galway (51%).
Two new studies have found that complications arising from long Covid are primarily brain related – not heart and lung conditions, as previously thought.
Consumer pessimism is at its highest level for nine years.
The curious case appears in the latest edition of the Irish Medical Journal.
University of Aberdeen researchers looked at more than 151,000 pregnancies over a 30-year period.
The research was led by the Hamilton Institute and ICARUS Climate Research Centre at Maynooth University.
The findings challenge previous research that suggests eating more vegetables is linked to a lower risk of heart attack, stroke and death.
The study, commissioned by The Lancet, found that depression remains poorly recognised and misunderstood despite being a common condition.
37% of people have cut back on essential heating and electricity use.
The UK study found people who suffer in childhood are also least likely to trust NHS information.
A new study found that native predators in native woodland are key for the species to survive in Ireland and Britain.
The director of the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right said its findings “makes it seem that platforms just don’t care enough” to address online abuse.
The number of teachers at primary and post-primary level went up from 61,942 in 2016 to 69,343 in 2020.
Additionally, the UK has approved a Covid drug treatment that makers say works against Omicron.
44% of people said that they had cancelled plans for the pre-Christmas period within the last week.
The trials took place in ten countries, including Ireland, and involved 706 participants.
More than one-in-ten (11%) adults did not seek treatment despite feeling unwell during this period.
Leinster, Clermont and Benetton’s men’s teams are also trialling the gumshields as rugby attempts to learn more about its links to head injury.
The research aims to provide a national profile of the impact of suicide bereavement.
Less than 25% of lone parents reported home-ownership, compared with 70% of the total population.
‘Eco-friendly’ lights were found to be worse than sodium ones – but both contribute to insect decline, new research has found.
The study involved 1,121 patients in Ireland, the US, Canada, Mexico, France and Spain.
The report notes several cases of activists being asked to provide sex to police in exchange for the freedom of other detained sex workers.
The report says older people’s health deteriorated during the pandemic and the incidence of depression rose.
Lost income, health and legal costs and damage to property are cumulatively costing domestic violence victims billions every year.
Epidermolysis bullosa, known as ‘butterfly skin’, is a genetic condition which causes blistering of the skin.
Prices are rising at a much faster rate outside Dublin.
The payment is not a disincentive to employment, new research has found.
That’s according to new polling conducted by Red C on behalf of The Journal.
The findings are based on simulations of climate, with and without human-induced emissions.
The ESRI found that around four in ten young people surveyed experienced at least one spell of poverty between 2007 and 2017.
This is a decline of 8% from 2019 to 2020, placing Ireland close to the global average of 45%.
A clinical psychologist at NUI Galway says self-compassion and hope are key to mental wellbeing amid Covid-19.
More children reported feeling low and being on a diet compared with 1998.
The Global Drugs Survey 2020 found respondents in Ireland were drunk more times in a year than the global average.
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