Ireland’s last census in 2016 by the CSO provided a lot of incite into ‘the Irish abroad’ as the term is often put, particularly our Irish expat’s in Australia. The land down under has been good to our people with many reporting lifestyle and living standard improvements as well as …
At the time of writing (January 2021), unemployment in Ireland stands at 25% of the workforce due in large part to the Covid-19 pandemic. This is a striking figure, one not seen in over 40 years and one that is heavily comprised sadly of redundancies. It could be a case …
The Divided States of America Leaving aside the fact that the US election has been topical for the last few months the reason why I often focus on all things American is due to the scale of its economy and its knock on impact on worldwide financial activity and, by …
Having originally targeted 1,400 employee acceptances in early August 2020, Bank of Ireland made the news in September when it was revealed that some 2,000 members of staff applied for their Voluntary redundancy scheme, equating to more than 19% of their overall workforce. The departures were blamed on persistently low …
7,271 – 520,000 – 11,000,000 In my newsletter at the start of June I cautioned that as lockdowns were eased globally the following weeks would tell a lot in terms of ongoing infection figures. As the World enters its sixth month of Covid-19, the numbers above represent respectively the daily …
“Should I Stay or Should I Go?” Some weeks ago we mentioned the dilemma that politicians worldwide faced on when and how to open up their economies. Those of you reading this update that are old enough to remember this song from The Clash in 1982 might also remember the …
The virus persists Boris Johnston has returned to work this morning and on first glance appears to be a far slimmer version of himself from a few weeks ago, evidence, if it was ever needed, of the severity of the personal impact of Covid-19. As at the time of writing …
What is R0 and why is it important? R0 is a statistical representation that epidemiologists use to describe how an infectious disease spreads through a population. Put simply, the average sick person, in a totally receptive population, must be able to get at least one other person sick (R0 = …
Escaping from the Lockdown In the context of global health and economic history, I can see that the Covid-19 lockdown economic impact was initially viewed as a short term problem, albeit one with serious ramifications. The realisation of growing infection and mortality rates has taken hold on political leaders. We …
Some Perspective On The Medical Issues While daily updates in infection and mortality statistics of the virus relay its spread and impact, it is also a record of a global failure in disease control by way of alertness and population monitoring. The official one million mark of cases infected is …
