Children and Equality

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Gibbons, Norah
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2011
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13085/1016
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Gibbons, N. (2011). Children and Equality. https://knowledge.barnardos.ie/handle/20.500.13085/1016
Abstract
Ireland’s population has grown rapidly with the CSO findings showing that in Census 2011, the population is 4,581,269 an increase of 8% on Census 2006. Approximately, one quarter of the Irish population are under-18 and Ireland has a higher percentage of children under- 18 than any other EU member state. Ireland’s birth-rate is also the highest across the EU and the baby boom is continuing with 363,500 babies born between 2006 – 2011.
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