10% of Irish people live in food poverty, study shows

Lower-income families have to spend up to a third of their income to afford enough food.

10% of Irish people live in food poverty, study shows

Lower-income families have to spend up to a third of their income to afford enough food.

That is according to a new Safefood study which also found that 10% of the population lives in 'food poverty'.

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