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Sex ed study focuses on younger children

Parents are to be asked about the difficulties they have talking to younger children about relationships and sex.

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Just 12% of those caring for elderly are paid

Less than one in eight people looking after older people in the community are paid for the work they do, it has emerged.

Ireland’s over-50s disprove sad and lonely stereotype

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Ireland’s over-50s disprove sad and lonely stereotype

STEREOTYPES of older people as sad, lonely and a burden on society are proven outdated by a study that shows Ireland’s over-50s are happier, better integrated and more financially independent than usually thought.

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Reform needed 'to narrow poverty gap'

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Widening rich-poor gap shown by study

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Ireland’s welfare spend ‘worst in EU’

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