Census to ask every household to send 'time capsule' to be read 100 years from now

Taoiseach Micheál Martin with twins Mya and Zara Akinsowon, 8, as he launched Census 2022 at Government Buildings, Dublin.

Every household in Ireland will be asked to send a message to people 100 years in the future as part of the first census in six years.

A team of 5,100 enumerators has already begun the process of handing out over 2m forms to every home in the country.