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Excess mortality blog post #11 A second consecutive month with a large drop in the number of deaths relative to the previous month is cause for celebration. Nonetheless, emerging anecdotal evidence from other countries that younger people are increasingly …

Excess mortality blog post #16 As Ireland looks to lift the last of its restrictions and move into, hopefully, a post-pandemic phase, it is important to remember that while the pandemic may be ending in much of the world, the virus has not been eradicated …

Blog#5 - UN Sustainable Development Goals – the global agenda to transform the planet by 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs for short, are a framework of 17 global goals which all United Nations members adopted as a blueprint to achieve a better …

Excess Mortality - Blog #15 Since our last update on the April 2021 data, the monthly data had shown close to “normal” levels of deaths in Ireland.  The latest data for July, however, shows a recent jump in the number of deaths observed. This prompted an …