A fantastic piece by Denis Linehan. This is why #GeographyMatters - careful, critical analysis of the differences between places that matter
Mary Gilmartin
Thanks to Denis Linehan of UCC for making sense of last week's CSO figures around urban and rural Ireland - this is such an important piece of work, it explains so much of the political discontent we are seeing.
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Independent urban towns are in a different level of social crisis to the rest of the country — unemployment at 5.9%, the highest of any area type, 17% at risk of poverty, and 20% of their households r...