Some key documents

Ireland. Annual national report

(2025) DRIVE National awareness campaign 2025. DRIVE (Drug Related Intimidation & Violence Engagement)

(2025) Barriers to social inclusion in Ireland: change over time and space, 2016-2022. Dublin: ESRI.

(2025) Deaths among people who were homeless at time of death in Ireland, 2021 Health Research Board

(2025) World report on social determinants of health equity. Geneva: World Health Organization.

(2025) Homelessness data [Ireland]. Department of Housing

(2025) Care to college: an exploratory study on care-experienced students’ educational journeys. Dublin: ESRI

(2025) Barriers and enablers of addiction recovery amongst people experiencing homelessness in Dublin, Ireland: a proposed conceptual framework adapted from the REC-CAP. Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment

(2024) ‘It’s a group-on-one’: social disconnection as a tool of and defence against child criminal exploitation in the Republic of Ireland. Crime Prevention and Community Safety   

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